The Seven Years War

The Hudson's Bay was fought over so much because the deep-water ports gave the British traders easy access to the richest fur country of all, and a great advantage over the French. Big ocean-going ships could sail directly between Britain and Hudson's Bay, bringing in trade goods and carrying out furs.

French colonial administration was very centralized and based on assimilation of colonial territories with France, while British colonial administration was much more decentralized, based upon cooperation with local chiefs.

Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Grozon was a French soldier best known as the commander of the forces in North America during the Seven Years' War (He is most known for being in the French and Aboriginal War).

General James Wolfe was an army reformer who attained high rank at a young age. Major-General James Wolfe was Britain's most celebrated military hero of the 18th century. His victory over the French at Quebec in 1759 resulted in the unification of Canada and the American colonies under the British crown.

The Royal Proclamation legally defined the North American interior west of the Appalachian Mountains as a vast Indigenous reserve. It established the basis for governing the North American territories surrendered by France to Britain in the Treaty of Paris in 1763, following the Seven Years' War.

The Europeans and Aboriginals had very different techniques in the way they fought. The Europeans used well crafted weapons like guns, but the Aboriginals used more hand crafted items such as spears or bow and arrows.