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Events from the year 1762 in Canada.
July 17 : Alexander Macdonell, Roman Catholic bishop (died 1840 in Scotland) [3]
August 28 : Augustin de Boschenry de Drucour, governor of Isle Royale.
Seeking to improve its fisheries position at peace talks, France captures Newfoundland, and loses it again three months later [4]
France "renounces all Pretensions" to Nova Scotia and cedes Canada and Cape Breton to Britain, which grants religious liberty to Catholics [5]
Seigneuries ("fiefs") of Canada are "deemed noble," with eldest son inheriting one half, and his male siblings sharing other half [6]
"The Canadians [are], in general, of a litigious disposition" with "multiplicity of Instruments" (to be replaced by "short and well digested Code") [7]
"Canadians in general are not much given to drunkenness, yet Men, Women and Children are used to drink a certain quantity of strong Liquors" [8]
Jesuits have missions to Indigenous people near Quebec at Jeune-Lorette ( Wendat) and at Tadoussac and Chicoutimi ( Innu; Note: "savages" used) [9]
Quebec general hospital is run by " ladies[...]of the best Families," but war and French king's unpaid debt must leave them in "utmost beggary" [10]
Canadians being "extremely tenacious of their Religion," British by not altering it and rebuilding "their great Church" would earn their loyalty [11]
Brief profiles of Innu, Huron-Wendat, Wolastoqiyik and Abenaki, with pledge of justice and instant redress of their complaints (Note: racial stereotypes) [12]
Soil is good, but Canadians are lazy and "not much skilled in Husbandry," and corrupted by " avaricious Men" (which British rule will end) [13]
With end of Canada's monopolies and more opportunity, trade in cod, whale products, naval stores, furs, hemp and flax, and potash will flourish [14]
British will end Canadian gentry's privilege, should keep clergy "in proper subjection," and have won over peasantry with generosity and lenity [15]
Excellent but misused iron industry near Trois-Rivières can be revived and expanded to supply Navy "with proper Iron for Ship Building" [16]
After detailing fur trade abuses, Gen. Thomas Gage suggests limiting western posts to five: Kaministiquia, Michilimackinac, Detroit and two others [17]
Catching whitefish at Sault Ste. Marie requires great skill in canoeing as well as netting [18]
Nova Scotia Council worried about security with so many Acadian prisoners in Halifax, and even more so in small unprotected settlements [19]
With Anglo-French hostilities ended, Commissioners for Trade and Plantations find it "neither necessary nor politic" to expel Acadians [20]
Nova Scotia executive authorized to borrow up to £4,500 to cover unpaid bounties and public works expenses, and to suspend bounties [21]
"Frauds and other Injuries [in] Trade and Dealing" committed against Indigenous people in Nova Scotia are to be prosecuted upon complaint [22]
For dissent or desertion "in Times of imminent Danger," Nova Scotia militia officers will be cashiered and lower ranks fined or imprisoned [23]
Seaman in St. John's harbor court-martial, sentenced for desertion to 600 lashes over 2 days, reprieved after first day for "imminent danger of his Life" [24]
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Events from the year 1762 in Canada.
July 17 : Alexander Macdonell, Roman Catholic bishop (died 1840 in Scotland) [3]
August 28 : Augustin de Boschenry de Drucour, governor of Isle Royale.
Seeking to improve its fisheries position at peace talks, France captures Newfoundland, and loses it again three months later [4]
France "renounces all Pretensions" to Nova Scotia and cedes Canada and Cape Breton to Britain, which grants religious liberty to Catholics [5]
Seigneuries ("fiefs") of Canada are "deemed noble," with eldest son inheriting one half, and his male siblings sharing other half [6]
"The Canadians [are], in general, of a litigious disposition" with "multiplicity of Instruments" (to be replaced by "short and well digested Code") [7]
"Canadians in general are not much given to drunkenness, yet Men, Women and Children are used to drink a certain quantity of strong Liquors" [8]
Jesuits have missions to Indigenous people near Quebec at Jeune-Lorette ( Wendat) and at Tadoussac and Chicoutimi ( Innu; Note: "savages" used) [9]
Quebec general hospital is run by " ladies[...]of the best Families," but war and French king's unpaid debt must leave them in "utmost beggary" [10]
Canadians being "extremely tenacious of their Religion," British by not altering it and rebuilding "their great Church" would earn their loyalty [11]
Brief profiles of Innu, Huron-Wendat, Wolastoqiyik and Abenaki, with pledge of justice and instant redress of their complaints (Note: racial stereotypes) [12]
Soil is good, but Canadians are lazy and "not much skilled in Husbandry," and corrupted by " avaricious Men" (which British rule will end) [13]
With end of Canada's monopolies and more opportunity, trade in cod, whale products, naval stores, furs, hemp and flax, and potash will flourish [14]
British will end Canadian gentry's privilege, should keep clergy "in proper subjection," and have won over peasantry with generosity and lenity [15]
Excellent but misused iron industry near Trois-Rivières can be revived and expanded to supply Navy "with proper Iron for Ship Building" [16]
After detailing fur trade abuses, Gen. Thomas Gage suggests limiting western posts to five: Kaministiquia, Michilimackinac, Detroit and two others [17]
Catching whitefish at Sault Ste. Marie requires great skill in canoeing as well as netting [18]
Nova Scotia Council worried about security with so many Acadian prisoners in Halifax, and even more so in small unprotected settlements [19]
With Anglo-French hostilities ended, Commissioners for Trade and Plantations find it "neither necessary nor politic" to expel Acadians [20]
Nova Scotia executive authorized to borrow up to £4,500 to cover unpaid bounties and public works expenses, and to suspend bounties [21]
"Frauds and other Injuries [in] Trade and Dealing" committed against Indigenous people in Nova Scotia are to be prosecuted upon complaint [22]
For dissent or desertion "in Times of imminent Danger," Nova Scotia militia officers will be cashiered and lower ranks fined or imprisoned [23]
Seaman in St. John's harbor court-martial, sentenced for desertion to 600 lashes over 2 days, reprieved after first day for "imminent danger of his Life" [24]