Chinese Name: Quebec Origin: 1763 End: 179 1 Belonging: Canadian Name Origin, Present Situation, Name Origin The name Québec comes from the Algonquian word "kébec", which means the river narrows. Traditionally, it refers to the area around Quebec City, that is, the St. Lawrence River narrows to both banks. There were other spellings of the word in the early days, such as Qué becq (Levasseur, 160 1) and Kébec (Lescarbot 1609). 1608, the French explorer champlain chose Quebec as the name of the administrative center of the French colony New France. This province usually means "Label Province". After the Seven-Year War, Britain and France signed the Paris Peace Treaty in 1763, France ceded French Canada to Britain, and Britain issued the Royal Declaration in the same year 1763, formally establishing Quebec. This decree stipulates that the whole province should be limited to the banks of the St. Lawrence River. Britain passed the Quebec Act in 1774, which expanded the scope of Quebec to include the Great Lakes, the Ohio River basin and the southern part of Rupert's land, and basically restored the border of the province during French rule. After the American War of Independence, the Treaty of Paris signed by Britain and the United States in 1783 agreed to put the territory south of the Great Lakes under the jurisdiction of the United States. 179 1 after the promulgation of the constitutional bill, Quebec was divided into two parts, namely, Lower Canada (Quebec today) and Upper Canada (Ontario today), and both regions could elect their own parliaments. 1840, the British Parliament passed a joint bill, which renamed Upper Canada as Western Canada and Lower Canada as Eastern Canada, and the two were unified into a joint province of Canada.