The Quebec Act: How Did Francophones Get Their Rights?

How did the Francophones get their rights? It all started in 1608 when Samuel de Champlain founded the city of Quebec; one hundred and sixty-six years later Britain passed the Quebec Act. Lord Guy Carleton was largely responsible for the Quebec Act. The Quebec Act did many things for Francophones in Quebec, it enlarged the boundaries of the province of Quebec to include Labrador, Mississippi and Ohio rivers on the west and the Aboriginal territory south of the Great Lakes. The Quebec Act also helped preserve French law and culture through religious freedom for the Roman Catholic majority and through restoring French civil law and British criminal law. Restoring those laws enabled the continued use of the seigneurial system which was used as