 An uneasy co-existence came to a head in 1756 with the outbreak of the Seven Years' War.By the terms of Treaty of Paris in 1763, which ended the war, Britain gained control of all of France's North American territory east of the Mississippi River, except for the remote islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon.The earliest reports of cricket in Canada date from 1785 where games seem to have taken place in Montreal.