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[1] Much of the contents of this Chapter is evidenced by documents to be found in Drs. Adam Shortt and Arthur G. Doughty’s Documents relating to the Constitutional History of Canada, 1759-1791, 2nd Edition, Ottawa, The King’s Printer, 1918 (herein cited “S. & D.”), Doughty and McArthur’s Documents relating to The Constitutional History of Canada, 1791-1818, Ottawa, The King’s Printer, 1914, (herein cited “D. & McA.”), and General Cruickshank’s The Correspondence of Lieut.-Governor John Graves Simcoe, Toronto, Ontario Historical Society, 1923 (herein cited “Correspondence”). The following particulars will probably suffice:

1763	Feb. 10,	Treaty of Paris, S. & D., pp. 97-126.
	Oct. 7,	Royal Proclamation, S. & D., pp. 163-168.
1774		Quebec Act, 14 Geo. III, c. 83, S. & D., pp. 570-576.
1783	Sept. 3,	Treaty of Paris, (Britain & U.S.), S. & D., pp. 726-730.
1791	Feb. 25,	Royal Message to Ho. of Coms., 28 Parl. Hist., Col. 1271.
	June 10,	Canada Act, 31 Geo. III, c. 31, S. & D., pp. 1031-1051.
	Aug. 24,	Order in Council dividing Quebec, D. & McA., pp. 3-5.
1791		Royal Warrant, Can. Arch., Q. 59 B., p. 199.
	Sept. 12,	Dorchester’s Commission, D. & McA., pp. 5-13.
		Dorchester’s Instructions, D. & McA., pp. 33-48.
		Simcoe’s Commission, D. & McA., p. 55.
	Nov. 18,	Clarke’s Proclamation, D. & McA., pp. 55-57.

[2] It will be remembered that it was the provision in the Quebec Act that the boundary of the Province of Quebec should run from the point at which the Ohio River struck the “Banks of the Mississippi .... Northward to the Southern Boundary of the” Hudson Bay Territory which was the subject of the memorable dispute between the Dominion of Canada under Sir John A. Macdonald and the Province of Ontario under Sir Oliver Mowat which was determined only by Imperial legislation in 1889, 52, 53, Vict., c. 28. See my Paper read February 28, 1914, before the Royal Canadian Institute, Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute, Vol. XI, pp. 1-18.

[3] S. & D., p. 728, Article IV of the Treaty.

[4] 1 Correspondence, p. 19, Letter, Dorchester to Col. Gordon and Major Smith, Quebec, January 20, 1791: Can. Arch., Q. 50 I., p. 66. See letter, Dorchester to Grenville, January 13, 1791, Can. Arch., Q. 50, p. 21, for an account of Harmar’s battle and Dorchester’s fear for Detroit.

Dorchester also wrote to Sir John Johnson as to his anxiety to secure a cessation of hostilities between the Indians and the United States. Letter from Quebec, February 10, 1791, Can. Arch., Q. 50, I, p. 76.

All the correspondence concerning these campaigns is very interesting.