<P> Canada was first a French colony . Jacques Cartier claimed it for France in 1534 , and permanent French settlement began in 1608 . It was part of New France , which constituted all French colonies in North America . Up until 1760 , Canadien nationalism had developed itself free of all external influences . However , during the Seven Years ' War , the British army invaded the French colony as part of its North American strategy , winning a conclusive victory at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham . At the Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ) , France agreed to abandon its claims in Canada in return for permanent French control of Guadeloupe . From the 1760s onward , Canadien nationalism developed within a British constitutional context . Despite intense pressure from outside Parliament , the British government drafted the Quebec Act which guaranteed Canadiens the restoration of French civil law ; guaranteed the free practice of the Catholic faith ; and returned the territorial extensions that they had enjoyed before the Treaty of Paris . In effect , this `` enlightened '' action by leaders in the British Parliament allowed French Canada to retain its unique characteristics . Although detrimental to Britain 's relationship with the Thirteen Colonies , this has , in its contemporary assessment , been viewed as an act of appeasement and was largely effective at dissolving Canadien nationalism in the 18th century ( especially considering the threat and proximity of American revolutionary ideology ) yet it became less effective with the arrival of Loyalists after the revolutions . With the Loyalists splitting the Province of Quebec into two identities ; Upper Canada and Lower Canada , Canadiens were now labelled by the Loyalists as French Canadians . </P>
<P> Canada was first a French colony . Jacques Cartier claimed it for France in 1534 , and permanent French settlement began in 1608 . It was part of New France , which constituted all French colonies in North America . Up until 1760 , Canadien nationalism had developed itself free of all external influences . However , during the Seven Years ' War , the British army invaded the French colony as part of its North American strategy , winning a conclusive victory at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham . At the Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ) , France agreed to abandon its claims in Canada in return for permanent French control of Guadeloupe . From the 1760s onward , Canadien nationalism developed within a British constitutional context . Despite intense pressure from outside Parliament , the British government drafted the Quebec Act which guaranteed Canadiens the restoration of French civil law ; guaranteed the free practice of the Catholic faith ; and returned the territorial extensions that they had enjoyed before the Treaty of Paris . In effect , this `` enlightened '' action by leaders in the British Parliament allowed French Canada to retain its unique characteristics . Although detrimental to Britain 's relationship with the Thirteen Colonies , this has , in its contemporary assessment , been viewed as an act of appeasement and was largely effective at dissolving Canadien nationalism in the 18th century ( especially considering the threat and proximity of American revolutionary ideology ) yet it became less effective with the arrival of Loyalists after the revolutions . With the Loyalists splitting the Province of Quebec into two identities ; Upper Canada and Lower Canada , Canadiens were now labelled by the Loyalists as French Canadians . </P>
which federal act or program was designed to address quebecois nationalism
which federal act or program was designed to address quebecois nationalism
Quebec Act
Quebec Act