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French and British Struggle for Domination

The French and British were rivals in the New World as well as in the Old World and fought each other in North America intermittently beginning in the early 1600's. The final war for what is now Canada fought between the French and British (the Seven Years War) began in 1754. When it ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763, France ceded its claims for this land to Great Britain. British settlement was bolstered by the American Revolution which began in 1775. The revolutionary war ended in 1783, but colonists there who wanted to remain loyal to Britain (United Empire Loyalists) flocked to Ontario.

 
 
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  • During the War of 1812 Laura Secord was able to warn the British troops of a planned American attack.

Laura Secord


 
 
 
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