This book marks the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec. It consists of six essays by a team of contributors drawn from Quebec, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. The book explores the concept of Franco-American heritage not as a modern remnant of a lost French North American empire but a thriving entity that grew in both vitality and geographical spread in the centuries after the British Conquest of 1759. Two points are fundamental to the essays in the book: Franco-America's heritage was neither French nor American but something different and unique from both. Its geographical extent spread far beyond its birthplace in Quebec province and penetrated into large parts of so-called Anglo-America --in other words, it was continental rather than provincial in nature.