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Title: Conquered and the Conquerors - British Control of Quebec - Battle for ...
 
Type: Document
Description: After the conquest, a new Canada slowly took shape. The Canadian militia returned to their villages and farms. 500 French soldiers, married to Canadian women, were allowed to stay. 3000 British troops remained in Quebec. Bigot was put in the Bastille for corruption, and died in exile in 1778. Governor Vaudreuil was arrested for his role in the colony's loss. General James Wolfe became a virtual industry in death, as biographies, ballads, epic poems, and paintings of him abounded. From the television series "Canada: A People's History." Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Betrayal and Compensation - Britain's Treatment of Six Nations Indians...
 
Type: Document
Description: In 1783 with the Treaty of Paris, Britain finally recognized the independence that America had declared seven years earlier. But the Six Nations were not mentioned in the treaty. The Mohawk chief Joseph Brant felt that England had sold the Indians to Congress. This excerpt from the television series "Canada: A People's History" describes the relationship between Britain and the Six Nations in the years following the American Revolution. Site includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Canada within the Empire - British North America 1776-1812
 
Type: Document
Description: Canada's English-speaking population grew significantly when American Loyalists flooded northward after America's independence in 1783. As a result, New Brunswick was created in 1784 and the division of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada (now Ontario and Quebec) occurred in 1791.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
Title: Real Stories - Our Past in Miniatures - Gabriel-Elzéar Taschereau - Mi...
 
Type: Document Image
Description: Miniature portrait of Gabriel-Elzéar Taschereau who defended Quebec against the British and the Americans. Includes access to descriptive archival record for the artwork.
Site: Library and Archives Canada
 
Title: The White Flag As A Battle Flag
 
Type: Document
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Description: With origins in the Wars of Religion of the early seventeenth century, an all white flag symbolized France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It was flown over military outposts and from ships' masts throughout the existence of the colony of New France.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: Amerindian warrior brandishing a scalp
 
Type: Image
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Description: This print shows a classic European vision of scalping. The process was widespread amongst both the forest and plains Amerindians, and dates back to at least the early 16th century. Scalps were viewed as trophies of war, part of a ritual act of retribution on an enemy.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: Men of the King's Royal Regiment of New York settling in Johnstown in ...
 
Type: Image
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Description: This contemporary watercolour shows a encampment of Loyalist veterans and their families at Johnstown (present-day Cornwall, Ontario) in 1784. Some of these men of the King's Royal Regiment of New York still wear their red coats. (Library and Archives Canada, C-002001).
Site: National Defence
 
Title: Recruitment
 
Type: Document
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Description: Most of the British army was recruited in Great Britain. By the mid-19th century, half of the men were English or Welsh, one third Irish and the remainder Scottish. Recruits were (in theory) volunteers signed up by a regimental recruiting party, and service was for life (until 1847).
Site: National Defence
 
Title: Records of the 4th International Colloquy on Military History (Ottawa ...
 
Type: Document
Description: Introduction by W.A.B. Douglas, Director Directorate of History, Program Chairman. Articles in a variety of languages including: English, German, French, Italian, Portugese, Spanish, Russian, Greek.
Site: National Defence
 
Title: Changing Boundaries 1756-1871
 
Type: Interactive Resource
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Description: Series of five maps illustrate the shifting boundaries of European land claims in North America from 1756 to 1871.
Site: National Defence
 
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