expel, assimilate (anglicize), accommodate
a. Nova Scotia and the Acadian expulsion
b. Assimilation
"And whereas it will
greatly contribute to the speedy settling of our
said new Governments, that our loving Subjects should be informed of
our Paternal care, for the security of the Liberties and Properties of
those who are and shall become Inhabitants thereof, We have thought fit
to publish and declare, by this Our Proclamation, that We have, in the
Letters Patent under our Great Seal of Great Britain, by which the said
Governments are constituted, given
express Power and Direction to our
Governors of our Said Colonies respectively, that so soon as the state
and circumstances of the said Colonies will admit thereof, they shall,
with the Advice and Consent of the Members of our Council, summon and
call General Assemblies within the said Governments respectively, in
such Manner and Form as is used and directed in those Colonies and
Provinces in America which are under our immediate Government" [Royal Proclamation]
c. Accommodation
Treaty of Paris,
Article IV: His Most Christian
Majesty renounces all pretensions which
he has heretofore formed or might have formed to Nova Scotia or Acadia
in all its parts, and guaranties the whole of it, and with all its
dependencies, to the King of Great Britain: Moreover, his Most
Christian Majesty cedes and guaranties to his said Britannick Majesty,
in full right, Canada, with all its dependencies, as well as the island
of Cape Breton, and all the other islands and coasts in the gulph and
river of St. Lawrence, and in general, every thing that depends on the
said countries, lands, islands, and coasts, with the sovereignty,
property, possession, and all rights acquired by treaty, or otherwise,
which the Most Christian King and the Crown of France have had till now
over the said countries, lands, islands, places, coasts, and their
inhabitants, so that the Most Christian King cedes and makes over the
whole to the said King, and to the Crown of Great Britain, and that in
the most ample manner and form, without restriction, and without any
liberty to depart from the said cession and guaranty under any
pretence, or to disturb Great Britain in the possessions above
mentioned. His Britannick Majesty,
on his side, agrees to grant the
liberty of the Catholick religion to the inhabitants of Canada: he
will, in consequence, give the most precise and most effectual orders,
that his new Roman Catholic subjects may profess the worship of their
religion according to the rites of the Romish church, as far as the
laws of Great Britain permit. His Britannick Majesty farther
agrees,
that the French inhabitants, or others who had been subjects of the
Most Christian King in Canada, may retire with all safety and freedom
wherever they shall think proper, and may sell their estates, provided
it be to the subjects of his Britannick Majesty, and bring away their
effects as well as their persons, without being restrained in their
emigration, under any pretence whatsoever, except that of debts or of
criminal prosecutions: The term limited for this emigration shall be
fixed to the space of eighteen months, to be computed from the day of
the exchange of the ratification of the present treaty.
Quebec Act of 1774
