Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1917 — How England Obtained Canada. [ARTICLE]

How England Obtained Canada.

Acadia—now Nova Scotia and New Brunswick—and the Hudson’s Bay territory were ceded to Great Britain by France by the treaty of Utrecht in 1715. To be sure, Britain had an older title to the Hudson’s Bay territory by reason of discovery and occupation, and the territory came to mean about all the Canadian West of today.- Old Canada— today the provinces of Quebec and Ontario—were ceded to Great Britain by France by the treaty of Paris, signed on February 10, 1763. By this same treaty France gave up any claim to the Ohio valley and other territory now forming much of the central West of the United-States,