Note 51 — Chapter II · CAUSES OF THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE QUEBEC ACT (continued 2)

See Shortt and Doughty, p. 381. Paper as to Proposed extension of Provincial Limits: ‘The King’s servants were induced to confine the government of Quebec within the above limits, from an apprehension that there were no settlements of Canadian subjects, or lawful possessions beyond those limits, and from a hope of being able to carry into execution a plan that was then under consideration for putting the whole of the interior country to the westward of our colonies under one general control and regulation by Act of Parliament.... The plan for the regulation of the interior country proved abortive, and in consequence thereof an immense tract of very valuable land, within which there are many possessions and actual colonies existing under the faith of the Treaty of Paris, has become the theatre of disorder and confusion....’