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The term British North America was initially used following the subsequent 1783 Treaty of Paris, which concluded the American Revolutionary War and confirmed the independence of Great Britain's Thirteen Colonies that formed the United States of America.
At the beginning of the French and Indian War (1754–1763), the British population in North America outnumbered the French 20 to 1. France fought a total of six colonial wars in North America, (see the four French and Indian Wars as well as Father Rale's War and Father Le Loutre's War).
After decades of warring with France, Britain took control of the French colony of Canada and France's territory east of the Mississippi River, as well as several Caribbean territories, in 1763. Many of the North American colonies gained independence from Britain through victory in the American Revolutionary War, which ended in 1783. Historians ...
6 Φεβ 2006 · The British North America Act (BNA Act), Canada’s Constitution, united Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick into the Dominion of Canada. A new federal government was established in Ottawa. Between 1867 and 1999, six more provinces and three territories joined Confederation.
The signatories of the Treaty were the Duke of Praslin for France and the Duke of Bedford for Great Britain. From its immense empire in North America, France now possessed only the tiny islands of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon south of Newfoundland.
New France, (1534–1763), the French colonies of continental North America, initially embracing the shores of the St. Lawrence River, Newfoundland, and Acadia (Nova Scotia) but gradually expanding to include much of the Great Lakes region and parts of the trans-Appalachian West.
The populations in New Spain and British North America grew quickly; New France lagged well behind in population growth. Settlers generally dealt very harshly with the Native Americans. In New Spain, those who did not die of European diseases were put to work as slaves.
