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 destruc- 
tion 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