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Quebec Act Hist. 
the act of the British Parliament by which Canada was governed from 1774 to 1791.
See also: Quebec Bill (def. 2)
- 1789 Some years after the Quebec Act passed, a bachelor in this city got so much enamoured with the venal charms of a fair lady, that he changed his religion, and stipulated a genteel dower in her favour, in consideration of marriage.
- 1899 Cramahe administered the government during Sir Guy Carleton's absence from the country 1770-74, the period in which the Quebec Act was under consideration.
- 1963 But the events were to give the Quebec Act a finality which would have surprised its drafters.
- 1789 Some years after the Quebec Act passed, a bachelor in this city got so much enamoured with the venal charms of a fair lady, that he changed his religion, and stipulated a genteel dower in her favour, in consideration of marriage.