The Treaty of Utrecht (apr 11, 1713 – apr 11, 1713)

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The Treaty of Utrecht was a treaty signed in 1713, and it was between France, Spain, Britain and Portugal. It was a series of documents that ended the War of Spanish Succession, and settled and disposed many territories. (Belshaw, p. 190) This treaty gave a lot of French land to the British; including Acadia, Hudson Bay, and Newfoundland (which included St. Pierre and Miquelon.) (Belshaw. P. 190) This put the majority of French speaking Acadia under British rule, and this changed the landscape of what was becoming Canada. Soon enough, Port-Royal would become Annapolis Royal, many small skirmishes and treaties would also be signed, and many massacres of the French people would be done by the British. (Watson, The Expulsion of the Acadians and the Fall of New France, slide 12) I believe this was an important event in Canadian history, because it ended up changing much of the mainland landscape of Canada. It was the beginning of a stronger British expansion into Canada, and you could say that it began the chain of events that lead to the complete creation of the United States of America, and Canada. The loss of French land set the French-Canadian economy back.

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