THE DEFINITIVE TREATY OF PARIS
1763
THE NEW CIVIL GOVERNMENT
THE DEFINITIVE TREATY OF PEACE--SECTION RELATING TO
CANADA--CATHOLIC DISABILITIES AND THE PHRASE “AS FAR AS THE
LAWS OF GREAT BRITAIN PERMIT”--THE TREATY RECEIVED WITH DELIGHT
BY THE “OLD” SUBJECTS BUT WITH DISAPPOINTMENT BY THE “NEW”--THE
INEVITABLE STRUGGLES BEGIN, TO CULMINATE IN THE QUEBEC ACT
OF 1774--OPPOSITION AT MONTREAL, THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE
SEIGNEURS--THE NEW CIVIL GOVERNMENT IN ACTION--CIVIL COURTS AND
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE ESTABLISHED--MURRAY’S ACTION IN ALLOWING
“ALL SUBJECTS OF THE COLONY” TO BE CALLED UPON TO ACT AS JURORS
VIOLENTLY OPPOSED BY THE BRITISH PARTY AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL--THE
PROTEST OF THE QUEBEC GRAND JURY--SUBSEQUENT MODIFICATIONS
IN 1766 TO SUIT ALL PARTIES--GOVERNOR MURRAY’S COMMENT
ON MONTREAL, “EVERY INTRIGUE TO OUR DISADVANTAGE WILL BE
HATCHED THERE”--MURRAY AND THE MONTREAL MERCHANTS--A TIME OF
MISUNDERSTANDING. NOTE: LIST OF SUBSEQUENT GOVERNORS 25