CONTENTS. CHAP. II. CHAP. III. Of the Character, Manners, Customs, Industry, and Religion of the Canadians-French Population- Page. CHAP. V. CHAP. VI. IV. Articles of Capitulation agreed on between General Townshend and M. de Ramsay, V. Articles of Capitulation between General Am- herst, Commander-in-Chief of His Britannic Majesty's Troops and Forces in North Ame- rica, and the Marquess de Vaudreuil, Lieute- nant-General for the King of France, in Canada, on the 8th of September, 1760 216 VI. An Act for making more effectual Provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec, the Thirty-first Year of the Reign of Geo. III. 231 VIII. An Address to the Electors of Lower Canada... 247 IX. Extract from a Bill for uniting the Legisla- tures of Lower and Upper Canada; printed POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF LOWER CANADA. CHAPTER I. Discovery of the Country, and Origin of its Name-Passes into the Hands of the English-Boundaries-Object of the present Work. IN the year 1497, Sebastian Cabot, holding a commission from Henry VII. of England, discovered the countries situated on the south-west of the river St. Lawrence. The appellation of CANADA was given to these territories, as well as to those afterwards discovered by Jacques Cartier, a subject of France. Of the origin of the word CANADA there are various accounts. It is by some asserted to be a word of the Iroquois language, signifying a collection of huts; others, however, give it a fanciful derivation from the Spanish. It is said that the Spaniards, long before Verazani was dispatched by Francis I. on a voyage of discovery, had disembarked in the bay now called Chaleurs, and, in their B |