Affects on Quebec
After the Treaty of Paris 1763, King Geroge III on October 7th proclaimed how Canada was to be governed. Good deals on vacant lands in Quebec would be offered to ex-soldiers and the French Catholics could not serve in the colonial assembly due to a required oath. Also the area west of the heads of the rivers flowing into the Atlantic Ocean were to be preserved for the Indians as hunting grounds. All French in Canada were free to emigrate eighteen months after the Treaty of Paris and it is considered that around 2,000 native Canadians left.
Ever since the British took Quebec, James Murray had been its military governor, and in 1764 he became the first official governor of Quebec. He was first required to follow the English law by establishing an Anglican Church and disqualifying the Roman Catholics who would serve in the government. Eventually because of this the British replaced the Canadian offical class, while the commercial class was dominated by the Anglo-Americans. Murray established two courts in Quebec, the King's Bench for major cases and appeals, and the Common Pleas for the Canadians. He allowed Catholics to serve on the Common Pleas and plead cases to it. Due to the banning of Catholics in the government, there were many conflicts between the French Catholic majority and British subjects in Quebec like Montreal.
As overview, the expansion of the British into Quebec created conflict between the British and the Catholic majority of the French class, there was an increase in settlers because of the good deals on land, land was put aside for the Indians, and Murray changed the courts and civil law in the province.
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