Posts Tagged ‘Royal Geographer William Faden’s 1777 mapy of the British Colonies in North America’

By 1774, Parliament decided to address some of the major issues England faced trying to govern this ill-defined piece of land called Canada. In the Quebec Act, the British Parliament defined the boundaries of Canada to include what is now Southern Ontario, the land along the St. Lawrence River to Nova Scotia and what is now Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and much of Minnesota.