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Events from the year 1763 in Canada.
With the Royal Proclamation of 1763 Lower Canada was renamed the " Province of Quebec".
Treaty of Paris 1763 confirms Canada, Cape Breton and Nova Scotia for Britain, and limited Newfoundland and Gulf fishing rights for France [3]
British ambassador ordered to discover how French intend to disrupt British rule in North American cessions and encroach on Newfoundland fishery [4]
Province of Quebec established with limits to settlement on Indigenous lands beyond its borders, and on settlers buying such land within province [5]
"Various Conjectures" - Benjamin Franklin summarizes reasons people are giving for attacks made on British by Indigenous people west of Lake Huron [6]
Despite Ojibwe chief Wawatam's warning, Alexander Henry witnesses massacre of British at Michilimackinac but is saved by enslaved Pawnee woman [7]
Teenager recounts being taken, enslaved, adopted, sold and rescued among Ojibwe, Odawa and French (Note: gruesome details; "savage" used) [8]
Character traits needed by North American commander-in-chief to deal well with Indigenous people (Note: racial stereotypes) [9]
Prospectus for weekly bilingual newspaper in Montreal, to aid anglophones and francophones learning each other's language, as well as deliver news [10]
"Correspondence increases Commerce" - Quebec merchants want postal service, but will have postmaster and military express handle their mail [11]
Maple sugaring near Sault Ste. Marie involves sugar shack with 20-foot-long fireplace, birchbark sap ducts and 100 gallon moosehide vats [12]
Nova Scotia Lt. Gov. Wilmot warns against letting dangerous Acadian group "bigotted to France and the Church of Rome" settle on Miramichi [13]
Acadians are not to be persuaded to move to France; instead "settle them in some distant District of Canada" [14]
Each Nova Scotia county quarter session is to make rules about river obstructions ( weirs, fish garths, seines etc.) that may affect fish spawning [15]
At annual Nova Scotia township meetings, freeholders will appoint board of 12 residents to decide who should receive funds voted for poor relief [16]
"In order to prevent the increase of Billiard Tables and Shuffle Boards" in Nova Scotia, owners must get annual £10 licence, or risk £20 fine [17]
"Over populous[...]in the Island they at present inhabit," Nantucket mariners want to relocate to St. John's Island to take cod and whales [18]
To evade violently anti-British Indigenous people, Alexander Henry dons variety of Ojibwe clothing and ornaments [19]
Though injured by snowshoeing from Michilimackinac to Sault Ste. Marie, Alexander Henry refuses local remedy for " snow-shoe evil" [20]
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Events from the year 1763 in Canada.
With the Royal Proclamation of 1763 Lower Canada was renamed the " Province of Quebec".
Treaty of Paris 1763 confirms Canada, Cape Breton and Nova Scotia for Britain, and limited Newfoundland and Gulf fishing rights for France [3]
British ambassador ordered to discover how French intend to disrupt British rule in North American cessions and encroach on Newfoundland fishery [4]
Province of Quebec established with limits to settlement on Indigenous lands beyond its borders, and on settlers buying such land within province [5]
"Various Conjectures" - Benjamin Franklin summarizes reasons people are giving for attacks made on British by Indigenous people west of Lake Huron [6]
Despite Ojibwe chief Wawatam's warning, Alexander Henry witnesses massacre of British at Michilimackinac but is saved by enslaved Pawnee woman [7]
Teenager recounts being taken, enslaved, adopted, sold and rescued among Ojibwe, Odawa and French (Note: gruesome details; "savage" used) [8]
Character traits needed by North American commander-in-chief to deal well with Indigenous people (Note: racial stereotypes) [9]
Prospectus for weekly bilingual newspaper in Montreal, to aid anglophones and francophones learning each other's language, as well as deliver news [10]
"Correspondence increases Commerce" - Quebec merchants want postal service, but will have postmaster and military express handle their mail [11]
Maple sugaring near Sault Ste. Marie involves sugar shack with 20-foot-long fireplace, birchbark sap ducts and 100 gallon moosehide vats [12]
Nova Scotia Lt. Gov. Wilmot warns against letting dangerous Acadian group "bigotted to France and the Church of Rome" settle on Miramichi [13]
Acadians are not to be persuaded to move to France; instead "settle them in some distant District of Canada" [14]
Each Nova Scotia county quarter session is to make rules about river obstructions ( weirs, fish garths, seines etc.) that may affect fish spawning [15]
At annual Nova Scotia township meetings, freeholders will appoint board of 12 residents to decide who should receive funds voted for poor relief [16]
"In order to prevent the increase of Billiard Tables and Shuffle Boards" in Nova Scotia, owners must get annual £10 licence, or risk £20 fine [17]
"Over populous[...]in the Island they at present inhabit," Nantucket mariners want to relocate to St. John's Island to take cod and whales [18]
To evade violently anti-British Indigenous people, Alexander Henry dons variety of Ojibwe clothing and ornaments [19]
Though injured by snowshoeing from Michilimackinac to Sault Ste. Marie, Alexander Henry refuses local remedy for " snow-shoe evil" [20]