... appointed advisory council, which also acted as a second chamber of the legislature. Britain's largest and most important Canadian colony at the time was Quebec, which Britain acquired from France in 1763 through the signing of the Treaty of Paris at the end of the Seven Years' War. Quebec's inhabitants, almost all French-speaking Roman Catholics, were thought to be uninterested in ... moved gradually towards the direction of increased self-government. In the first stage of this movement towards self-government a reprise of the struggles of the 18th century American colonies for greater...

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