@inbook{10.3138/9781442678828.8, ISBN = {9780802067166}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442678828.8}, abstract = {The signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763 ratified the military conquest by Great Britain in 1760 of the extensive French possession in North America known as New France. A new colony called Quebec was created along the banks of the St Lawrence River when the ceded territory was reorganized by royal proclamation that same year. This new acquisition to the British empire already contained some 70,000 colonists, almost all of whom were French in language, culture, and law, and Roman Catholic in religion. The Proclamation of 1763 imposed upon these people English forms of government and law and}, bookauthor = {M. BROOK TAYLOR}, booktitle = {Promoters, Patriots, and Partisans: Historiography in Nineteenth-Century English Canada}, pages = {84--115}, publisher = {University of Toronto Press}, title = {The Anomaly of Quebec}, year = {1989} }