Answer:
British gained control of parts of modern-day Canada as a result of their victory in the French and Indian War.
Explanation:
The French and Indian War was the last of four major colonial wars between Britain and France. Unlike the previous wars, it began on American ground and then spread to Europe. The UK's official declaration of war came in 1756, which was to mark the start of the Seven Years War. With trading posts and forts, both Great Britain and France demanded vast lands between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River, from the Great Lakes to the North to the Gulf of Mexico in the South. The British demands were based on royal privileges and that North America had no definite west boundary. The French demands were based on La Salle's claim of the entire Mississippi Valley on behalf of the French King. In the middle of the 18th century, the population of the British colonies had grown so large that were in need of new land. British colonists therefore started to enter the French Ohio Valley. The French colony of Nouvelle France was far larger than the British, but also much less populated. The French, however, had built a number of forts and had gradually encircled the British territories. Expansion was thus impossible without taking land that France otherwise claimed.
After the war, the only territory that France was allowed to keep from New France was the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which have secured French access to fishing until today. The United Kingdom annexed Canada and Florida, while Spain received the Louisiana territory as compensation for the loss of Florida. France also retained the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Caribbean, but lost the rest of its American colonies.
