Loading ...Britain then established a trading post up in the area of James and Hudsons Bays ( The Hudson’s Bay Company , founded in 1670 ).
During the French and Indian wars , Britain was fighting France . Washington was an officer in the British forces and created an international incident when he attacked a French detachment at Jumonville ( East of Uniontown , PA ) one morning at dawn . That French group was led by a man who was nobility in France , and was found with two documents on his person . One , a peace treaty and the other a declaration of war . After the massacre , Washington retreated to the East and was held in siege at Fort Necessity for some time , eventually surrendering , as I recall .
Anyway – the British Commander further north up in the region of NY and NH , General Wolfe commanded troops who attacked the French fortress at what is now Quebec City and took it , making Quebec and Canada , a land ruled by the British . Immigration to Canada by British subjects was encouraged to balance Canada’s population . Even today the Provincial government in Quebec is called ‘ L’Assemblé National – (the National Government) of French speaking Quebec , and the provincial license plates have ( or had ) the inscription “Je me Souviens ” ( I remember !) . Quebec is more loosely integrated with the rest of Canada than the other provinces .