Did you know that we invaded Quebec? The Quebecois sure know that we invaded Quebec. They don’t much like us up there. If you’ve ever taken a tour of the Citadel in Quebec City, you would also know this. Our tour guide spent a good long time telling us of all the things that the Quebecois do not like about the British or the Americans.
If you spend enough time in Vermont, you’ll also know that we invaded Quebec. When we weren’t invading Quebec, we were thinking about it. And part of that history is baked right into Vermont’s award-winning bleu cheese: Bayley-Hazen.
Quebec was not an insignificant threat. It was, as of the end of the French and Indian War, a British colony as well. And while the local French population was not enthused by this take over, they were also not ready to jump into another fight—especially not when the British government had told them they could continue to practice Catholicism as part of the Quebec Act.
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Quebec and the American Revolution