Quebec 1760-1791
The Revolutionary Age
Volume VI of the Canadian Centenary Series
Now available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself.
In this perceptive history of Quebec before it was divided into Upper and Lower Canada, Professor Hilda Neatby scrutinizes the response of the British Parliament to the duty of devising a sympathetic, fair, and workable system of law and government. The author examines how successive governors administered the Proclamation of 1763 and the Quebec Act of 1774, until the passing of the Constitutional Act, leaving…
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November 1, 2016Professor HILDA NEATBY (1904--1975), who became a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1967, was professor of history at Queen’s University and professor emeritus of the University of Saskatchewan. She was the author of several historical works and was also well known for So Little for the Mind, which set forth her incisive criticism of contemporary trends in education and aroused widespread controversy. She was born in Surrey, England, and was educated at the universities of Saskatchewan, Minnesota, and the Sorbonne.
