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St. Paul's Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia, the oldest Anglican church in Canada still standing, built in 1750. Before the arrival of Europeans, the Indigenous peoples followed a wide array of mostly animistic religions and spirituality; [13] [41] [14] [42] [15] [43] [44] "including the presence of creation stories, the role of tricksters or of supernatural beings in folklore and the importance ...
Religious buildings and structures on the National Historic Sites of Canada register (1 C, 3 P) 0–9 18th-century religious buildings and structures in Canada (1 C)
18 May – Fire destroys a large part of the town of Montreal, Quebec. [2] [3]The Stamp Act increases discontent. A Stamp Act Congress meets in New York City to protest the Act.
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Map showing British territorial gains following the Treaty of Paris in pink, and Spanish territorial gains after the Treaty of Fontainebleau in yellow. In North America, the Seven Years' War had seen Great Britain conquer the entirety of the French colony of Canada. The war officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on February 10 ...
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1764–1765: The Sugar Act and Stamp Act, by which Britain aims to recover revenue from the American colonies, arouses local opposition. James Murray becomes civil governor of Quebec, but his attempts to appease French Canadians are disliked by British merchants. Canada is divided into two chief judicial districts (Quebec and Montreal).
So many Loyalists arrived on the shores of the St. John River that a separate colony—New Brunswick—was created in 1784; [102] followed in 1791 by the division of Quebec into the largely French-speaking Lower Canada (French Canada) along the St. Lawrence River and the Gaspé Peninsula and an anglophone Loyalist Upper Canada, with its capital ...