... 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 the representative legislature. Furthermore, English law did not allow Catholics ... council in accordance with the wishes of the majority in the colony's legislative assembly. "The task of the governor was to choose councillors with some influence, use their advice to pre...

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