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In 1763, the population of Quebec City was about 8,000. Under British rule, it remained the administrative center of the region, and its commerce was

greatly increased through its exports of wheat and timber throughout the British Empire. In 1775, a colonial American force under Richard Montgomery

and Benedict Arnold failed to take the city, which held out under Governor Guy Carleton until British reinforcements arrived.

Britain passed the Constitutional Act in 1791, which divided the Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada. Quebec City, with a population of

close to 10,000, became the capital of Lower Canada. The city continued to perform a central role in the British colony and to function as the heart of

French settlement in North America.

Michael F. Dove

See also: Canada; French; French and Indian War; French Colonies on Mainland North America (Chronology).

Bibliography

Greer, Allan. The People of New France. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.

Trudel, Marcel. Introduction to New France. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada, 1968.

Young, Brian, and John A. Dickinson. A Short History of Quebec. Montreal: McGill/Queen’s University Press, 2003.

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