Quebec is a country in North America bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, the East by Newfoundland and the Atlantic Ocean, the South by the United States of America and on the west by Assiniboia. Quebec is home to the descendants of French settlers to North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth century until it was taken over by the British Empire in 1763 during the Seven Years War. In 1864, Quebec joined with Newfoundland, Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island into the Dominion of Canada.