Province of Quebec (1763–1791)
Member Appointment Notes
Chief Justice William Hey 1766 appointed during Murray 's term as Governor ; Chief Justice of Quebec 1766-1773
Attorney General Francis Maseres ( 1731-1824 ) 1766 served until 1769 ; lawyer , office holder , and author
Lieutenant Paulus Aemilius Irving ( 1714-1796 ) 1764 appointed during Murray 's term as governor and till 1768 ; acting President of the Council 1766-1768 ; commander-in-chief of British Forces in Quebec and administrator 1766-1768
Hector Theophilus de Cramahé ( 1720-1788 ) 1764 appointed during Murray 's term as governor and served until 1771 ; Lieutenant Governor of Quebec 1771-1782 ; later member of the Legislative Council
Adam Mabane ( 1734-1792 ) 1764 appointed during Murray 's term as governor and served until 1766 ; British Army physician and judge ; later member of the Legislative Council 1775-1792
Walter Murray ( 1701 ? -1772 ) 1764 appointed during Murray 's term as governor and served until 1771 ; relative to then Governor Murray ; British Army officer under James Wolfe ; head of the Port of Quebec and justice of the peace and Receiver General
Captain Samuel Holland ( 1728-1801 ) 1764 appointed during Murray 's term as governor and served until 1770 ; British Army officer and served as first Surveyor General of British North America
Thomas Dunn ( 1729-1818 ) 1764 appointed during Murray 's term as governor and unilt 1774 ; colonial administrator and soldier ; merchant ; master in the Court of Chancery 1764 ; later member of the Legislative Council
François Mounier 1764 appointed during Murray 's term as governor and served until 1769 ; Huguenot merchant , justice of the peace ; examiner in the Court of Chancery and judge of the Court of Common Pleas 1764-1769
Captain James Cuthbert Sr. ( 1719-1798 ) 1766 appointed during Murray 's term as governor and served until 1774 ; army officer ( 15th Regiment of Foot ) , merchant , justice of the peace ; Seigneur of Berthier
Benjamin Price ( ? -1768 or 1769 ) 1764 appointed during Murray 's term as governor and served until 1768 ; merchant , justice of the peace , master in the Court of Chancery 1764-1768
Counsellors to the governor
Further information : Council for the Affairs of the Province of Quebec The Province of Quebec did not have an elected legislature and was ruled directly by the governor with advice from counsellors . A council responsible to advise the governor ( then James Murray ) on all affairs of state was created in 1764 . In 1774 , the Quebec Act created a Council for the Affairs of the Province of Quebec to advise the governor on legislative affairs . The Legislative Council served as an advisory council to the governor until a legislative assembly was established after 1791 . The individuals James Murray called into the council from 1764 to 1766 : List of councillors under Carleton from 1766 to 1774 :
The Province of Quebec was a colony in North America created by Great Britain after the Seven Years' War which ended by the Battle of the Plain of Abraham. During the war, Great Britain's forces conquered French Canada. As part of terms of the Treaty of Paris peace settlement, France gave up its claim to Canada and negotiated to keep the small but rich sugar island of Guadeloupe instead. By Britain's Royal Proclamation of 1763, Canada (part of New France) was renamed the Province of Quebec. The new British province extended from the coast of Labrador on the Atlantic Ocean, southwest through the Saint Lawrence River Valley to the Great Lakes and beyond to the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Portions of its southwest (below the Great Lakes) were later ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Paris (1783) at the conclusion of the American Revolution although the British maintained a military presence there until 1796. In 1791, the territory north of the Great Lakes was divided into Lower Canada and Upper Canada.