Quebec Act 1774


Provided that the boundaries of the province of

Quebec in the west should extend from Lake Erie to the Ohio, along the

Ohio to the Mississippi, and north to the territories of the Hudson's

Bay Company; guaranteed the French-Canadians in the free exercise of

their religion; provided for the continuance of the criminal law of

England, and for the appointment of a Legislative Council, with limited

powers. =Index=: (Lord E
gin era) Guarantees institutions of French Canada, 24. (Lord Dorchester era)

Introduced in House of Lords, 63; its delimitation of Canada gives

offence to older colonies, 63; concedes full religious liberty to Roman

Catholics and establishes French civil law, 64; opposition to, 65;

passed, 65; corporation of London petitions king to withhold assent, 69;

saves Canada to British crown, 78; agitation against, 79-81; goes into

force, 81, 89. (Bishop Laval era) Beneficial operation of, 13. (Lord Sydenham era) Its effect in

creating cleavage between French and English in Canada, 62; precipitated

by American Revolution, 65; not carried out in its integrity, 66, 67; a

mistake as preventing the unification of Canada, 91. (Baldwin / La Fontaine / Hincks era) Its

provisions, 2-3; opposition to, 4; its results, 4. (Louis Joseph Papineau era) Gives

French-Canadians long-deferred justice, 7; establishes French civil law,

9; the magna charta of French-Canadians, 9, 16; its genesis and

history, 11. (William Lyon Mackenzie era) Commentary on, 47; cause of its repeal, 47. (Sir Frederick Haldimand era)

Extends Quebec to Mississippi, 93; obnoxious to New Englanders, 101; not

satisfactory to English inhabitants, 173, 175; in Haldimand's opinion,

saved the country from going over to the enemy, 174; and estates of

Ursuline nuns, 179; opposition to, 180; repeal wanted, 188, 264;

Haldimand's opinion of, 195; his use of, 273. =Bib.=: Houston,

Constitutional Documents of Canada; Bourinot, Constitutional History

of Canada; Egerton and Grant, Canadian Constitutional Documents;

Bradley, The Making of Canada; Lucas, History of Canada. See also

Dorchester.



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