Post #2: Decisions Decisions

October 8. 1763

Dear Journal,

I have been so busy that I forgot to write.  So now I am going to tell you what has been happening.    Just in case there are any more problems in North America, we wrote a Royal Proclamation.  It will organize the North American Territories that we got from the Treaty of Paris and it will also keep peace with the First Nations and will help to make the French in Quebec like us.

But, we noticed that the First Nations people truly have a right to their land.  To make more room for us, the King had to make an agreement with them.  So, they agreed that we can use their land only if we give them an annual payment.  But in some cases, issues were resolved without such agreements an we were able to use the land.

February 17, 1774

Dear Journal,

The people of Virgina and North Carolina are very unhappy because we were telling them that they should move north to Quebec instead of moving west.  They did not want to go to Quebec because the good farming land was all taken.

Governor James Murray has been sent back to Britain because he has been favouring the French by giving them more rights than the British colonists.  Now, Sir Guy Carleton is going to replace him as governor of the colony.

But when Sir Carleton got here we found that he was not much different from Governor Murray because he too found the French easier to deal with.  The British merchants are still complaining that their rights are being violated. 

Sir Carleton is concerned about the Thirteen Colonies being unsettled and he thinks that the French in Quebec could be our allies if we had to fight the Thirteen Colonies.  He said that we should keep the French as happy as possible so when we need the help, they will return the favour.  He is also thinking of writing the Quebec Act, that will change the Royal Proclamation of 1763.