Wikibooks: Canadian LGBT History/British North America/Overview

• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Subjects: Canada; Dewar; Thumb; Warden; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Canadian_LGBT_History/British_North_America/Overview

= Canada under British rule (1763–1867) = [[thumb right 340px Map showing British territorial gains following the Seven Years War . gains in pink and Spanish territorial gains after the in yellow.]] With the end of the and the signing of the France ceded almost all of its territory in mainland North America except for fishing rights off Newfoundland and two small islands where it could dry that fish. In turn France received the return of its sugar colony Guadeloupe which it considered more valuable than Canada. Helen Dewar Canada or Guadeloupe? French and British Perceptions of Empire 1760–1763 Canadian Historical Review Dec 2010 Vol. 91 Issue 4 pp 637–660 The new British rulers retained and protected most of the property religious political and social culture of the French speaking guaranteeing the right of the Canadiens to practice the Catholic faith and to the use of (now ) through the of 1774. cite web title=Original text of The Quebec Act of 1774 url=http //www.solon.org/Constitutions/Canada/English/PreConfederation/qa 1774.html publisher=Canadiana (Library and Archives Canada) date=2004 (1774) accessdate=2010 04 11 The had been issued in October by following Great Britain s acquisition of French territory. cite web title=The Royal Proclamation url=http //www.solon.org/Constitutions/Canada/English/PreConfederation/rp 1763.html publisher=The Solon Law Archive first=William F last=Maton year=1996 accessdate=2010 04 11 The proclamation organized and to stabilize relations between through regulation of trade settlement and land purchases on the . = American Revolution and Loyalists = During the there was some sympathy for the among the and the New Englanders in Nova Scotia. Neither party joined the rebels although several hundred individuals joined the revolutionary cause. cite book first=Kenneth last=McNaught title=The Pelican History of Canada publisher=Pelican page= 2d ed. 53 year=1976 isbn=0140210830 cite book last=Raddall first=Thomas Head title= Halifax Warden of the North publisher=McClelland and ...