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Events from the year 1787 in Canada.
Complaints from British America "that their trade is very much injured and impeded" by lack of quick link with Britain; packets to be added [3]
Congress says new constitution creates national authority (including treaty-making) superior to all state laws (hint: anti-loyalist ones) [4]
Regarding Canada - New Brunswick boundary, Gov. Lord Dorchester calls who gets what land "very immaterial" except as it affects border with U.S.A. [5]
Merchants tell Legislative Council that province suffers from mixing "the custom of Canada, the general laws of France [and English law]" [6]
Many of 15,000 British-born in Canada are Loyalists "wholly ignorant of the French laws," which won't protect them or commercial rights [7]
Council forms committees to address various topics of government reform, and committees solicit opinion from every district of Canada [8]
Former governor Haldimand learns tight-lipped Gov. Lord Dorchester is part of "confusion reigning in Canada," and Quebec Act is "in danger" [9]
"In less than half a Century [most] of the Landed property in this Province will be in the hands of the English, [who] possess all the Trade" [10]
Dorchester warns Sydney that U.S. military build-up may have as one objective attacking British frontier posts, which are in weak condition [11]
Infantry regiment said to be going to Quebec after Dorchester decides "deranged state of the government" in U.S.A. means more troops needed [12]
Dorchester "is regulating and exercising" militia; Montreal writer says "people are militia mad" and buying uniforms "with great avidity" [13]
Dorchester orders free trade of domestic products (furs excepted) with U.S.A. by way of Lake Champlain, subject to British trade rules [14]
Commissioners of American Claims ask Loyalists who submitted claims under 1783 claims act to meet them in Montreal or Quebec City [15]
George Davison tells Haldimand "the posts have this year returned 7,500 pounds of beaver and 1,600 martins," and St. Maurice Forges are productive [16]
Report that leaders of Shays Rebellion petitioned Dorchester for asylum and were turned down as former enemies of Britain, and now not so much [17]
$20 reward for " Negro Wench" Bett, about 18, speaks English, French and German well, and is " big with child and within a few days of her time" [18]
Free lecture series at seminary running October-March on mathematics (arithmetic, algebra, geometry etc.) and March-August on military affairs [19]
Trials and joys of sailing from Montreal to Quebec City [20]
Stuffed skin once covered body that could "much mischief do, / It by the ladies too was much caress'd, / What more, Beau-reader, can be said of you?" [21]
Legislative Council, claiming Great Lakes soil is fit for hemp and flax, says "policy requires that this great Country should be peopled" [22]
Mississaugas give up land on north side of Lake Ontario by signing "indenture," but land area and payment amount are not filled in until years later [23]
When British ask Six Nations their attitude to retaining frontier posts, chiefs rather ask how British will address and support their alliance [24]
Five nations' ( Kanien’kéhà:ka, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Delaware) deed for "a farm each" on Grand River for 10 Indian Department officials [25]
Former New Jersey judge, fined more than £1,000 for loyalty to King, seeks "a Captain's allowance of Lands" in 1787 petition [26]
Along with "barbarity" and "ferocity," Indigenous people are described as valuing expressiveness and sense of right and wrong [27]
Birchtown " negroes[...]have been found extremely useful to the white inhabitants, chiefly in reducing very considerably the price of work" [28]
Bishop of Halifax says colonies are blessed with inflow of "respectable and industrious inhabitants" and favourable trade and development policies [29]
Newcomer finds Nova Scotia "a miserable country" dependent on Boston for mutton, poultry and fruit, New York for flour and Ireland for pork [30]
Shelburne resident says 131 infant baptisms and 17 burials of under-2-year-olds in 1786 shows "salubrity of our climate" [31]
Almost all whalers out of Halifax have had great success in last year, benefitting them and whole province [32]
Trade and fishery superintendent at Canso finds U.S. fishers violating treaty and harming British trade by selling own country's goods [33]
Thomas Jefferson warns French foreign minister that putting duty on Nantucket whale oil will only drive those whalers to Nova Scotia [34]
Fees established for various judicial roles and services, including 1 shilling for jurors and 2/6 per day plus 3p mileage for witnesses [35]
Law requires record of servant's wage and term; JPs can fine misbehaving servant up to 5 shillings and fine master for serving liquor to servant [36]
Extra packet ordered by British postmaster general to sail to Halifax with mail for British settlements because of "great increase of trade" [37]
Halifax town meeting votes to raise £82 to pay debts from "maintenance of the Poor" and £100 for next 6 months of maintenance [38]
"On Account of the Severity of the Winter, a Number of Officers of the Army intend performing a Play for the Benefit of poor confined Debtors" [39]
Windsor residents' gratitude to leaders of 60th Regiment at Fort Edward for "goodness of their Discipline, and[...]their Hearts" [40]
Grand jurors report on excessive drinking among "lower sort of people" in Halifax, blaming too great number of liquor licences issued [41]
Ship hits hidden rock off Jeddore Head and sinks in 5 minutes; one passenger "was almost drown'd" before getting into boat, but died hours later [42]
When young man dies in winter weather on Liverpool-Shelburne road, search party has "utmost Difficulty" separating his faithful dog from corpse [43]
Gazette printer announces German-language almanac for 1788 and newspaper to be published starting January 1 [44]
Singing school to open for Halifax "young Gentlemen and Ladies" (over 10 years old) to learn "the Rules of Psalmody" for 3 months [45]
All age 16-50 to join militia company or regiment, and "upon an alarm, invasion, insurrection or rebellion," Quakers and those age 51-60 must join too [46]
No deed or other land conveyance can deny right of dower to any wife unless she signs such deed and informs judge that she did so freely [47]
Only "causes" of divorce allowed are "precontract by words in the present Tense, and frigidity or impotence and consanguinity" [48]
While Gov. Lord Dorchester is for guarding against "menaces of the Indians," he advises showing them civility, kindness and justice [49]
Upon swearing oath, debtor confined in jail for 14 days may go free and any creditor blocking such release must pay prisoner's maintenance [50]
Payments to be made for certain government roles and services, including treasurer, printer, and speaker, and Assembly house's rent and fuel [51]
"Mama, why don't you help me and give me Bread?" - Widowed Loyalist complains bitterly about "neglect and starvation" suffered by her family [52]
Suspicion that New Brunswick deputy postmaster general broke seals on letter to Nova Scotia governor stirs cross-border controversy [53]
Map: Saint John River from Bay of Fundy to Fredericton, with plan of Saint John city [54]
Land grant draft lease is made out to 31 Black men rent-free for 10 years with certain requirements for clearing and working land [55]
Moses Simpson and 3 other Black men petition for land assigned to them that they could not work when provisions were cut off after 2 months [56]
Black woman Eve ("excellent" housework) and her child Suke sent to N.B. by New York loyalist under attainder who can't sell her at home [57]
Reward for missing "Abraham, a Run-Away negro boy, about 16[,] has a pleasant countenance, is very talkative, tall[...]but well proportioned" [58]
"Wanted immediately, A smart active Lad, About eight or ten years of age, as an apprentice to learn the trade of a Chimney-Sweeper." [59]
All "Monies, Provisions, building Materials, Clothing, Stores" etc. for government use are to be accounted for, or else £10 fine plus damages [60]
Cape Breton inhabitants to be "immediately enrolled" in militia "for preserving from encroachment[...]the extensive Fisheries on this Coast" [61]
Perjury (even by "unlawful procurement [or] sinister Persuasion") can draw £20 fine or cutting off of both ears, plus 6 months in prison [62]
Three-year scarcity of fish prompts law against dumping fish offal within 3 leagues of shore (onshore dumping in intertidal "landwash" excepted) [63]
Taking trees reserved for Royal Navy masts and timber can lead to fine of up to £100 or six months in prison, and burning woods is felony [64]
Moose or caribou hunting for skins only punishable by £5 fine, unless meat kept for personal or local use or sold at public market [65]
John Johnson on importance to Britain of nations ( Six Nations, Wyandot, Delaware, Shawnee) involved in confrontations with U.S. settlers [66]
Independent and powerful Vermont, negotiating and foreseeably confederating with Canada, poses threat to New York [67]
Separatist "Provinces of Maine and Sagadahock[...]pass what Acts they please" to keep their ports open to British lumber trade [68]
Description of depression conditions in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where lack of trade leaves ships unused (even unrigged) and unsaleable [69]
Congress rejects request of Canadian refugees on Lake Champlain for provisions, with exception of 12-month supply for "aged and infirm" [70]
Drawing: Moravian mission with Inuit houses, Hopedale, Labrador [71]
Alexander Mackenzie and partners endure violence from established fur traders for 2 years before forming Northwest Company with them [72]
"Barbarous and uncultivated" - British traders stop at Haida Gwaii and find people "the most expert and rapacious thieves," but good carvers [73]
"That the King of France has banished the Parlement of Paris for daring to think and speak the truth[...]is thought will occasion an insurrection" [74]
Report says astronomer William Herschel discovered erupting volcano on Moon, though in "last lunation[...]he saw nothing of it" [75]
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Events from the year 1787 in Canada.
Complaints from British America "that their trade is very much injured and impeded" by lack of quick link with Britain; packets to be added [3]
Congress says new constitution creates national authority (including treaty-making) superior to all state laws (hint: anti-loyalist ones) [4]
Regarding Canada - New Brunswick boundary, Gov. Lord Dorchester calls who gets what land "very immaterial" except as it affects border with U.S.A. [5]
Merchants tell Legislative Council that province suffers from mixing "the custom of Canada, the general laws of France [and English law]" [6]
Many of 15,000 British-born in Canada are Loyalists "wholly ignorant of the French laws," which won't protect them or commercial rights [7]
Council forms committees to address various topics of government reform, and committees solicit opinion from every district of Canada [8]
Former governor Haldimand learns tight-lipped Gov. Lord Dorchester is part of "confusion reigning in Canada," and Quebec Act is "in danger" [9]
"In less than half a Century [most] of the Landed property in this Province will be in the hands of the English, [who] possess all the Trade" [10]
Dorchester warns Sydney that U.S. military build-up may have as one objective attacking British frontier posts, which are in weak condition [11]
Infantry regiment said to be going to Quebec after Dorchester decides "deranged state of the government" in U.S.A. means more troops needed [12]
Dorchester "is regulating and exercising" militia; Montreal writer says "people are militia mad" and buying uniforms "with great avidity" [13]
Dorchester orders free trade of domestic products (furs excepted) with U.S.A. by way of Lake Champlain, subject to British trade rules [14]
Commissioners of American Claims ask Loyalists who submitted claims under 1783 claims act to meet them in Montreal or Quebec City [15]
George Davison tells Haldimand "the posts have this year returned 7,500 pounds of beaver and 1,600 martins," and St. Maurice Forges are productive [16]
Report that leaders of Shays Rebellion petitioned Dorchester for asylum and were turned down as former enemies of Britain, and now not so much [17]
$20 reward for " Negro Wench" Bett, about 18, speaks English, French and German well, and is " big with child and within a few days of her time" [18]
Free lecture series at seminary running October-March on mathematics (arithmetic, algebra, geometry etc.) and March-August on military affairs [19]
Trials and joys of sailing from Montreal to Quebec City [20]
Stuffed skin once covered body that could "much mischief do, / It by the ladies too was much caress'd, / What more, Beau-reader, can be said of you?" [21]
Legislative Council, claiming Great Lakes soil is fit for hemp and flax, says "policy requires that this great Country should be peopled" [22]
Mississaugas give up land on north side of Lake Ontario by signing "indenture," but land area and payment amount are not filled in until years later [23]
When British ask Six Nations their attitude to retaining frontier posts, chiefs rather ask how British will address and support their alliance [24]
Five nations' ( Kanien’kéhà:ka, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Delaware) deed for "a farm each" on Grand River for 10 Indian Department officials [25]
Former New Jersey judge, fined more than £1,000 for loyalty to King, seeks "a Captain's allowance of Lands" in 1787 petition [26]
Along with "barbarity" and "ferocity," Indigenous people are described as valuing expressiveness and sense of right and wrong [27]
Birchtown " negroes[...]have been found extremely useful to the white inhabitants, chiefly in reducing very considerably the price of work" [28]
Bishop of Halifax says colonies are blessed with inflow of "respectable and industrious inhabitants" and favourable trade and development policies [29]
Newcomer finds Nova Scotia "a miserable country" dependent on Boston for mutton, poultry and fruit, New York for flour and Ireland for pork [30]
Shelburne resident says 131 infant baptisms and 17 burials of under-2-year-olds in 1786 shows "salubrity of our climate" [31]
Almost all whalers out of Halifax have had great success in last year, benefitting them and whole province [32]
Trade and fishery superintendent at Canso finds U.S. fishers violating treaty and harming British trade by selling own country's goods [33]
Thomas Jefferson warns French foreign minister that putting duty on Nantucket whale oil will only drive those whalers to Nova Scotia [34]
Fees established for various judicial roles and services, including 1 shilling for jurors and 2/6 per day plus 3p mileage for witnesses [35]
Law requires record of servant's wage and term; JPs can fine misbehaving servant up to 5 shillings and fine master for serving liquor to servant [36]
Extra packet ordered by British postmaster general to sail to Halifax with mail for British settlements because of "great increase of trade" [37]
Halifax town meeting votes to raise £82 to pay debts from "maintenance of the Poor" and £100 for next 6 months of maintenance [38]
"On Account of the Severity of the Winter, a Number of Officers of the Army intend performing a Play for the Benefit of poor confined Debtors" [39]
Windsor residents' gratitude to leaders of 60th Regiment at Fort Edward for "goodness of their Discipline, and[...]their Hearts" [40]
Grand jurors report on excessive drinking among "lower sort of people" in Halifax, blaming too great number of liquor licences issued [41]
Ship hits hidden rock off Jeddore Head and sinks in 5 minutes; one passenger "was almost drown'd" before getting into boat, but died hours later [42]
When young man dies in winter weather on Liverpool-Shelburne road, search party has "utmost Difficulty" separating his faithful dog from corpse [43]
Gazette printer announces German-language almanac for 1788 and newspaper to be published starting January 1 [44]
Singing school to open for Halifax "young Gentlemen and Ladies" (over 10 years old) to learn "the Rules of Psalmody" for 3 months [45]
All age 16-50 to join militia company or regiment, and "upon an alarm, invasion, insurrection or rebellion," Quakers and those age 51-60 must join too [46]
No deed or other land conveyance can deny right of dower to any wife unless she signs such deed and informs judge that she did so freely [47]
Only "causes" of divorce allowed are "precontract by words in the present Tense, and frigidity or impotence and consanguinity" [48]
While Gov. Lord Dorchester is for guarding against "menaces of the Indians," he advises showing them civility, kindness and justice [49]
Upon swearing oath, debtor confined in jail for 14 days may go free and any creditor blocking such release must pay prisoner's maintenance [50]
Payments to be made for certain government roles and services, including treasurer, printer, and speaker, and Assembly house's rent and fuel [51]
"Mama, why don't you help me and give me Bread?" - Widowed Loyalist complains bitterly about "neglect and starvation" suffered by her family [52]
Suspicion that New Brunswick deputy postmaster general broke seals on letter to Nova Scotia governor stirs cross-border controversy [53]
Map: Saint John River from Bay of Fundy to Fredericton, with plan of Saint John city [54]
Land grant draft lease is made out to 31 Black men rent-free for 10 years with certain requirements for clearing and working land [55]
Moses Simpson and 3 other Black men petition for land assigned to them that they could not work when provisions were cut off after 2 months [56]
Black woman Eve ("excellent" housework) and her child Suke sent to N.B. by New York loyalist under attainder who can't sell her at home [57]
Reward for missing "Abraham, a Run-Away negro boy, about 16[,] has a pleasant countenance, is very talkative, tall[...]but well proportioned" [58]
"Wanted immediately, A smart active Lad, About eight or ten years of age, as an apprentice to learn the trade of a Chimney-Sweeper." [59]
All "Monies, Provisions, building Materials, Clothing, Stores" etc. for government use are to be accounted for, or else £10 fine plus damages [60]
Cape Breton inhabitants to be "immediately enrolled" in militia "for preserving from encroachment[...]the extensive Fisheries on this Coast" [61]
Perjury (even by "unlawful procurement [or] sinister Persuasion") can draw £20 fine or cutting off of both ears, plus 6 months in prison [62]
Three-year scarcity of fish prompts law against dumping fish offal within 3 leagues of shore (onshore dumping in intertidal "landwash" excepted) [63]
Taking trees reserved for Royal Navy masts and timber can lead to fine of up to £100 or six months in prison, and burning woods is felony [64]
Moose or caribou hunting for skins only punishable by £5 fine, unless meat kept for personal or local use or sold at public market [65]
John Johnson on importance to Britain of nations ( Six Nations, Wyandot, Delaware, Shawnee) involved in confrontations with U.S. settlers [66]
Independent and powerful Vermont, negotiating and foreseeably confederating with Canada, poses threat to New York [67]
Separatist "Provinces of Maine and Sagadahock[...]pass what Acts they please" to keep their ports open to British lumber trade [68]
Description of depression conditions in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where lack of trade leaves ships unused (even unrigged) and unsaleable [69]
Congress rejects request of Canadian refugees on Lake Champlain for provisions, with exception of 12-month supply for "aged and infirm" [70]
Drawing: Moravian mission with Inuit houses, Hopedale, Labrador [71]
Alexander Mackenzie and partners endure violence from established fur traders for 2 years before forming Northwest Company with them [72]
"Barbarous and uncultivated" - British traders stop at Haida Gwaii and find people "the most expert and rapacious thieves," but good carvers [73]
"That the King of France has banished the Parlement of Paris for daring to think and speak the truth[...]is thought will occasion an insurrection" [74]
Report says astronomer William Herschel discovered erupting volcano on Moon, though in "last lunation[...]he saw nothing of it" [75]