Capitulation of Montreal

The British and French fighting in North America during the Seven Years War ended with this capitulation, which is effectively the end of French Empire in North America. Because the Seven Years War was a world war and continued in Europe until 1763, the British ruled 'New France' (in what would become Canada) under military rule until the official end of the war with the Treaty of Paris 1763, in which many colonial powers exchanged colonial land holdings around the world with no input from the Indigenous inhabitants. In the Article 47 of the Capitulation of Montreal, slavery as practiced by the French was extended under the British rule. Per the Canadian Encyclopedia "4,185 slaves were owned between the mid-17th century and the year 1834, when slavery was abolished. Of that number, 2,683 were Indigenous people, 1,443 were Black people and 59 were of unknown origin."