Difference Between Canada And Guadeloupe

During the Seven Years War, there was a definite outbreak in the amount of Aboriginals who contracted smallpox. It had been a disease that was around since the beginning of the colonization of North America, but there was a larger immigration of troops from Europe to the colonies at this time. (10) This also correlates to more contact between Aboriginal peoples without the immune system to fight off smallpox and Europeans who were immune to the disease. This was in part because every spring an increasingly large amount of soldiers left for Canadian missions where they would be surrounded by prisoners, opponents and allies alike, most of who were European. Many of the Aboriginals lost their lives because they had not become immune to the

During the treaty of Paris, Britain had captured many French colonies but they realized that they would not be able to keep peace if they kept all of the territory in their possession. Thus began what is often known as the Canada versus Guadeloupe debate. It shows the divide of interests where France turned more towards maritime and tropical powers, whereas Britain moved toward more control over their colonies and expanding their territory. (16) Many citizens actually weighed in to eventually influence the decisions by parliament. The reasons for keeping Canada were well addressed in a letter From a Gentleman in Guadeloupe to his Friend in London: “We are able to supply every demand of sugar without Guadeloupe; we are not able to carry on the fur-trade with advantage except we can keep Canada.” (15) The fur trade was an abundant part of the British wealth at that point, and many citizens believed that it was more important the sugar trade as they had access to that from other places. John Douglas, the Bishop of Salisbury, wrote in his letter advocating for keeping Guadeloupe: “[Guadeloupe] alone employs a great number of ships, and that all the Islands which we have at present scarce produces sugar enough to supply our home Consumption… Of great Use, therefore, that Island would be to us.” (14) He also wrote about that these exports from Guadeloupe would enrich the British Empire immensely more than Canada. A differing argument was then heard in the same chain of letters “Unless we should choose to … keep great Bodies of Troops in America, in full peace, at an immense Expense; we can never consent to leave the French any Footing in Canada.” (16) This was the general though when the British finally decided in the Treaty of Paris, which was “done at Paris, this third day of September in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three,” (20) to lay out that France would receive