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Events from the year 1798 in Canada.
Commissioners fulfilling treaty between U.S.A. and Great Britain decide in favour of river claimed by G.B. as Maine-New Brunswick border [4]
Rundown of treaties between European powers since 1648 Treaty of Westphalia provides background to current affairs and "vicissitudes of the year" [5]
"Let us exhibit the great fundamental of Masonry, as well as of all civil Society, our Love of Order" - sermon to Montreal Masons rejects revolution [6]
Gov. Prescott gives Executive Council directions for disposal of "waste lands," including preference for associated grant applicants seeking townships [7]
Convicted of burglary in Court of King's Bench (Criminal), Black woman named Elizabeth Baker is sentenced to death [8]
Indigenous person is "convicted of an assault with intent to murder, and sentenced to six months imprisonment" [9]
For assaulting wife with "intent to murder," man gets £25 fine, pillory, and 6 months in prison plus "security for his good behaviour for 2 Years" [10]
Book-lending service will send books to subscribers anywhere in L.C., and they may read latest newspapers in "well warmed room" at library [11]
First French settlers on St. Lawrence River were restricted by Intendant Picard to one can of spruce beer a day, causing them to say "Can-a-day!" [12]
Painting: sleighs on ice in winter view of St. Lawrence River at Quebec City [14]
Noting his loyalty to British, Joseph Brant says their aim for ownership control of all Indigenous land seems "to put aside the old covenant chain" [15]
Black man Henry Lewis writes one-time enslaver that he wants to purchase his freedom in £16 annual payments, and begs his pardon 10,000 times [16]
Adolphustown Quaker meeting reports people try "to keep[...]in plainness of Speech behavior and apparel" and avoid "unnessary [sic] use" of liquor [17]
"True British Spirit [of] the Parent country operates with resistless energy" in its dominions, causing Haligonians to raise £4,000+ for war effort [18]
Courteous visit by U.S. Navy ships to Halifax signals "a return of harmony and reciprocal friendship" [19]
Rev. John Wiswall says war makes farming glebe difficult because of high price of labour (with so many men away) and other things (except grain) [20]
Halifax emergency caused by "immense quantities of Snow [in] few days" cutting off food supplies is ended by citizen and army efforts [21]
Resident aliens ("not being natural born Subjects[...]or Denizens, nor Persons duly Naturalized") are required to get special permit from government [22]
"Hurricane" strikes Halifax, driving ships on shore, dragging away wharves with ships moored to them, and destroying stores containing merchanise [23]
Map: Halifax harbour, including approaches, Bedford Basin, and nearby communities (Note: north is at bottom of page) [24]
Having built house, storehouse, shipyard and 5 wharves on Sissiboo River, petitioner requests land for grist and sawmill [25]
Where 1792 freshet shifted Truro channel, 50 acres of marshland created could be secured "with Proper Materials," to public's and petitioner's benefit [26]
Castaways on Sable Island survive 3 winter months in hut with chimney that they cover and line with cloth from wreck, living on ship provisions [27]
Lady Wentworth's departure leaves N.S. deprived of her high accomplishments and her mind "informed for instructive and pleasing conversation" [28]
Young Dartmouth man, having "discovered an attachment to Miss Russel," enters her family home, and when stopped, kills her with butcher knife [29]
At Theatre Royal "will be Performed, A celebrated Comedy never performed here, called The Tempest, or the Inchanted Island" [30]
Three turkey hens, one "of a very remarkable Large Size," are stolen in daylight from Prince Edward's Halifax quarters; 5 guinea reward [31]
Government extends suspension of controls on U.S. imports to allow in grains, flour etc. because of "public emergency and to prevent distress" [32]
No one in Saint John allowed to board ships from places with " Yellow Fever, Putrid Billious Fever" etc., with master paying £50 for each infraction [33]
Saint John River flooding caused by ice breakup; 20+ French families have evacuated their homes above Fredericton; cattle, hay etc. are swept away [34]
Fredericton church congregation petitions for "a Glebe and other publick grounds" such as land granted to two men but abandoned [35]
For sale: hull of ship lying on Sandy Island; has four 9-pounders, much merchandise and 40 tons of iron (ship is bolted where others have trunnels) [36]
"In the House of Commons April 3, Mr. Wilberforce moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the abolition of slavery; Ayes 83, Nays 87" [37]
"Every virtuous man will rejoice to hear that a Negro standard is now floating" - Britain recognizes and will defend St. Domingo's independence [38]
Saint John's Island becomes Prince Edward Island to stop its mail going to Saint John, N.B., St. John's, Newf. and "St. Johns on the Labrador Coast" [39]
Hudson's Bay Company concerned that Canadian traders are in "the very heart of York & Severn Bungee Country," making two posts "great sufferers" [40]
Moravians in Labrador find "some time is required before these poor heathen, so deeply sunk in the mire of sin, [truly accept] our Savior" [41]
"Admiral Nelson, in consequence of the loss of his arm, is to return from actual service" and go on rear admirals' superannuated list [42]
France's gathering invasion force includes 50 " Philosophers [who] are to be furnished with instruments[...]for making discoveries" in Britain [43]
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Decades: | |||||
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See also: |
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History of Canada |
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Timeline ( list) |
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Topics |
By provinces and territories |
Cities |
Research |
Events from the year 1798 in Canada.
Commissioners fulfilling treaty between U.S.A. and Great Britain decide in favour of river claimed by G.B. as Maine-New Brunswick border [4]
Rundown of treaties between European powers since 1648 Treaty of Westphalia provides background to current affairs and "vicissitudes of the year" [5]
"Let us exhibit the great fundamental of Masonry, as well as of all civil Society, our Love of Order" - sermon to Montreal Masons rejects revolution [6]
Gov. Prescott gives Executive Council directions for disposal of "waste lands," including preference for associated grant applicants seeking townships [7]
Convicted of burglary in Court of King's Bench (Criminal), Black woman named Elizabeth Baker is sentenced to death [8]
Indigenous person is "convicted of an assault with intent to murder, and sentenced to six months imprisonment" [9]
For assaulting wife with "intent to murder," man gets £25 fine, pillory, and 6 months in prison plus "security for his good behaviour for 2 Years" [10]
Book-lending service will send books to subscribers anywhere in L.C., and they may read latest newspapers in "well warmed room" at library [11]
First French settlers on St. Lawrence River were restricted by Intendant Picard to one can of spruce beer a day, causing them to say "Can-a-day!" [12]
Painting: sleighs on ice in winter view of St. Lawrence River at Quebec City [14]
Noting his loyalty to British, Joseph Brant says their aim for ownership control of all Indigenous land seems "to put aside the old covenant chain" [15]
Black man Henry Lewis writes one-time enslaver that he wants to purchase his freedom in £16 annual payments, and begs his pardon 10,000 times [16]
Adolphustown Quaker meeting reports people try "to keep[...]in plainness of Speech behavior and apparel" and avoid "unnessary [sic] use" of liquor [17]
"True British Spirit [of] the Parent country operates with resistless energy" in its dominions, causing Haligonians to raise £4,000+ for war effort [18]
Courteous visit by U.S. Navy ships to Halifax signals "a return of harmony and reciprocal friendship" [19]
Rev. John Wiswall says war makes farming glebe difficult because of high price of labour (with so many men away) and other things (except grain) [20]
Halifax emergency caused by "immense quantities of Snow [in] few days" cutting off food supplies is ended by citizen and army efforts [21]
Resident aliens ("not being natural born Subjects[...]or Denizens, nor Persons duly Naturalized") are required to get special permit from government [22]
"Hurricane" strikes Halifax, driving ships on shore, dragging away wharves with ships moored to them, and destroying stores containing merchanise [23]
Map: Halifax harbour, including approaches, Bedford Basin, and nearby communities (Note: north is at bottom of page) [24]
Having built house, storehouse, shipyard and 5 wharves on Sissiboo River, petitioner requests land for grist and sawmill [25]
Where 1792 freshet shifted Truro channel, 50 acres of marshland created could be secured "with Proper Materials," to public's and petitioner's benefit [26]
Castaways on Sable Island survive 3 winter months in hut with chimney that they cover and line with cloth from wreck, living on ship provisions [27]
Lady Wentworth's departure leaves N.S. deprived of her high accomplishments and her mind "informed for instructive and pleasing conversation" [28]
Young Dartmouth man, having "discovered an attachment to Miss Russel," enters her family home, and when stopped, kills her with butcher knife [29]
At Theatre Royal "will be Performed, A celebrated Comedy never performed here, called The Tempest, or the Inchanted Island" [30]
Three turkey hens, one "of a very remarkable Large Size," are stolen in daylight from Prince Edward's Halifax quarters; 5 guinea reward [31]
Government extends suspension of controls on U.S. imports to allow in grains, flour etc. because of "public emergency and to prevent distress" [32]
No one in Saint John allowed to board ships from places with " Yellow Fever, Putrid Billious Fever" etc., with master paying £50 for each infraction [33]
Saint John River flooding caused by ice breakup; 20+ French families have evacuated their homes above Fredericton; cattle, hay etc. are swept away [34]
Fredericton church congregation petitions for "a Glebe and other publick grounds" such as land granted to two men but abandoned [35]
For sale: hull of ship lying on Sandy Island; has four 9-pounders, much merchandise and 40 tons of iron (ship is bolted where others have trunnels) [36]
"In the House of Commons April 3, Mr. Wilberforce moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the abolition of slavery; Ayes 83, Nays 87" [37]
"Every virtuous man will rejoice to hear that a Negro standard is now floating" - Britain recognizes and will defend St. Domingo's independence [38]
Saint John's Island becomes Prince Edward Island to stop its mail going to Saint John, N.B., St. John's, Newf. and "St. Johns on the Labrador Coast" [39]
Hudson's Bay Company concerned that Canadian traders are in "the very heart of York & Severn Bungee Country," making two posts "great sufferers" [40]
Moravians in Labrador find "some time is required before these poor heathen, so deeply sunk in the mire of sin, [truly accept] our Savior" [41]
"Admiral Nelson, in consequence of the loss of his arm, is to return from actual service" and go on rear admirals' superannuated list [42]
France's gathering invasion force includes 50 " Philosophers [who] are to be furnished with instruments[...]for making discoveries" in Britain [43]