The Effects Of The British Conquest Of New France

By the mid-eighteenth century, life in North America was changing for the average Canadian. Specifically during The Seven Years War, also well-known as The British Conquest of New France, from 1756 to 1763. In North America, it involved a battle between Britain and France for power over France’s colonial lands and areas of fur trade control. Britain conquered France and in 1763, The Treaty of Paris officially turned North America over to British control. The Canadians faced substantial changes after the war. The British conquest not only affected the Acadians in the Maritimes, but it affected the French Canadiens from society in New France, and introduced significant changes in the Aboriginal people’s way of life. The Acadians were expelled

To illustrate, before the conquest, the Aboriginals had been able to play the British and the French off against each other, seeing as each was restless to have the allied support in their on-going sequence of wars with one another. As a result, Aboriginals were able to make bargains and get securities from both sides in the dispute. When the British were officially in power, the Aboriginal bargaining position had vanished, and it was no longer easy to get bargains and guarantees in return for military support. In addition, the Aboriginals wanted to keep the British and American settlers out of their regions, but now the British occupied all the French forts and new settlers were immigrating in numbers. Pontiac, the war chief of the Ottawa, rejected the idea that Britain would steal their land and control his people's outcome. Reinforced by other chiefs, he advised the Aboriginal nations to attack the English. Having recognized the inescapable conflict that would occur between colonial development and the Aboriginals, The British officiated in the Royal Proclamation (1763) that settlers would be banned from moving into Aboriginal Territory. Once the Royal Proclamation (1763) was established, the Aboriginals were merely permitted a small amount of land west of the Appalachians. This was a significant change compared to how much land the Aboriginal peoples had in earlier times before British takeover. Furthermore, the American Revolution (1776-83) further reduced what Aboriginal land existed. When the British and the Americans battled against one another, the Six Nations peoples had provided fighters for the British army, and yet their entitlement to the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes regions was not declared in the Treaty of Paris (1783). Instead, the British recognized the American claim,