PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK
TORONTO AND MELBOURNE

PREFACE

My warm thanks are due to Mr. C. T. Atkinson, M.A., of Exeter College, Oxford, who most kindly read through the proofs of the chapter on the War of American Independence and made some valuable corrections; and also to Mr. C. Atchley, I.S.O., Librarian of the Colonial Office, who has given me constant help. Two recent and most valuable books have greatly facilitated the study of Canadian history since 1763, viz., Documents relating to the Constitutional History of Canada, 1759-91, selected and edited with notes by Messrs. Shortt and Doughty, and Canadian Constitutional Development, by Messrs. Egerton and Grant. I want to express my grateful acknowledgements of the help which these books have given to me.

C. P. LUCAS.

December, 1908.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER IPAGE
The Proclamation of 1763, and Pontiac’s War[1]
CHAPTER II
Causes of the American War of Independence and the Quebec Act[30]
CHAPTER III
The War of American Independence[90]
CHAPTER IV
The Treaty of 1783 and the United Empire Loyalists[208]
CHAPTER V
Lord Dorchester and the Canada Act of 1791[236]
CHAPTER VI
Sir James Craig[298]
APPENDIX I
Treaty of Paris, 1783[321]
APPENDIX II
The Boundary Line of Canada[327]

LIST OF MAPS

1.Map to illustrate the Proclamation of 1763To face p.[1]
2.Canada under the Quebec Act"[81]
*3.Plan of the City and Environs of Quebec”[112]
4.Map to illustrate the Border Wars”[145]
*5.A Map of the Country in which the army under Lieutenant-General Burgoyne acted in the campaign of 1777”[161]
6.The two Canadas under the Constitutional Act of 1791”[257]
7.Map to illustrate the Boundary of Canada”[321]
8.Map of Eastern Canada and part of the United States[End of book.]
* Reproductions of contemporary maps.