NATURAL RESOURCES OF QUEBEC

and industry by Jean Talon, the energetic agent of Colbert and Louis
XIV. In this period, also, the Jesuit Father Albanel reached the shores
of James bay, Joliet and Marquette the river Arkansas, and La Salle
followed the Mississippi to its outlet.

THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR
So far all initiative in Canadian enterprise had come from France.
The treaty of Utrecht in 1713, which ended a half century of desultory
warfare, finally gave to Britain the Hudson bay territory and Acadia, but
the government at Quebec still kept control of the St. Lawrence from the
Atlantic to the farther end of the Great Lakes, and endeavoured to hem
in the English colonies by a chain of forts extending from Louisbourg
through the St. Lawrence valley to the Great Lakes and down the Ohio

Region of mixed farming showing the long and narrow strips of land characteristic of
uebec farms

and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. This design was frustrated by
the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763). The issue was decided by the destruction
 of Louisbourg and the battle of the Plains of Abraham, 1759.

RELICS OF FEUDAL FRANCE
From 1759, the history of the province of Quebec has been separate
from that of France. The Quebec Act of 1774 determined the status of