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Events from the year 1802 in Canada.
War with France, Spain and Batavia is over following U.K.'s ratification of Definitive Treaty of Peace [3]
U.S.A. is to pay U.K. £600,000 for benefit of British claimants of debts owed them from before American Revolution [4]
"Missionary" tells "Indian" "[we] know much more of that Great Power above than you in your present State of Ignorance can possibly do" [5]
Hemp committee for District of Quebec publishes extensive instructions for growing hemp, saying it "is not so difficult as is imagined" [6]
Montrealers petition Assembly over problems with " Apprentices, Journeymen and Servants" taking advantage of various benefits then leaving prematurely [7]
"Several attempts to break open shops and cellars, a thing so unusual in this Country, are said to have been made" [8]
New bilingual weekly British-American Register is to "instill into the minds of individuals sound Principles, a love of learning, of order and propriety" [9]
"Choir of the [new] English Metropolitan Church" of Quebec City wants 12 boys and 8 young men who "will be taught singing by note gratis" [10]
Lease 200 acres of crown and clergy reserve land for 21 years at 10/- or 3 bushels wheat per year for first 7 years and higher for later 7-year periods [11]
Author compiles opinions on " Negro Slavery" because its legality "has long occupied the attention both of the learned and unlearned among us" [12]
Slave owner bequeaths to family enslaved " Negro Woman," "Prince," "Diana," "Jack," "Samuel," "James" and "Cloe" (last 4 valued at 90 (pounds?)) [13]
Funds needed by King's College for "an useful and extensive Library[...]highly conducive to the Success and Prosperity of this infant University" [14]
Member Ward Chipman finds Legislative Assembly disabled by members "as ignorant, as abandoned and wicked, [as should never] be again chosen" [15]
With so many in Europe coming to Nova Scotia and Lower and Upper Canada, New Brunswick needs to state its qualities and "use[...]to the Empire" [16]
Males 16–50 (except Quakers) must enroll in militia and muster with musket or fuzee, bayonet, cartouch box, 1 lb. gunpowder and 2 lbs. bullets [17]
Queensbury Parish includes "a number of Poor People[...]desirous of giving their Children a small Share of Learning" and seeking Assembly's help [18]
As prosecutor in court-martial, Edward Winslow is instructed by Lt. Gov. Carleton to "not only be firm and decisive, but [also] temperate and discreet" [19]
British immigrant, though "farming for Maintenance to his family," owns under 1 acre and petitions for 150 acres between Maquapit and Grand Lake [20]
Abitibi House says its "lavishness of Spiritous Liquors (the chief article that gains the Natives affection) is nothing" compared with Canadians' supply [21]
With "Mr. Best being constantly in Liquor," parcels containing "Liquor and Wine" are missing at Osnaburgh House; "Mr. Best must go home next Year" [22]
"Capt'n. Monk and all his Gang [of Indigenous people] have been in much distress, the half of them are sick and[...]unable to hunt a long time" [23]
Returning from Henley House, Fort Albany men bring "fine Wood for Boat building, fine Elm heels for Battaux, and a quantity of Ash for Floor timbers" [24]
After forcing its way through Hudson Bay ice, bow of brig sailing to Churchill is lifted by rope running from masthead to pack ice to repair damage [25]
Brig on Hudson Bay is struck by lightning, starting fire in cabin and hold and knocking men down - unhurt but "felt as if they had been Electrified" [26]
Church of England liturgy is "the fixed Form of Worship" in Prince Edward Island, but " dissenting [Protestants] shall have free Liberty of Conscience" [27]
U.S. population is 5,172,000, with about 40% living in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts; enslaved in those states: 347,000, 1,600 and none [28]
Thomas Jefferson hears Alexander Mackenzie is going to "North West Country [with smallpox] Vaccine Virus for the benefit of the unfortunate natives" [29]
Of 161 Moravian missionaries who are stationed in various places, 25 are in Labrador (in 3 settlements) [30]
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Events from the year 1802 in Canada.
War with France, Spain and Batavia is over following U.K.'s ratification of Definitive Treaty of Peace [3]
U.S.A. is to pay U.K. £600,000 for benefit of British claimants of debts owed them from before American Revolution [4]
"Missionary" tells "Indian" "[we] know much more of that Great Power above than you in your present State of Ignorance can possibly do" [5]
Hemp committee for District of Quebec publishes extensive instructions for growing hemp, saying it "is not so difficult as is imagined" [6]
Montrealers petition Assembly over problems with " Apprentices, Journeymen and Servants" taking advantage of various benefits then leaving prematurely [7]
"Several attempts to break open shops and cellars, a thing so unusual in this Country, are said to have been made" [8]
New bilingual weekly British-American Register is to "instill into the minds of individuals sound Principles, a love of learning, of order and propriety" [9]
"Choir of the [new] English Metropolitan Church" of Quebec City wants 12 boys and 8 young men who "will be taught singing by note gratis" [10]
Lease 200 acres of crown and clergy reserve land for 21 years at 10/- or 3 bushels wheat per year for first 7 years and higher for later 7-year periods [11]
Author compiles opinions on " Negro Slavery" because its legality "has long occupied the attention both of the learned and unlearned among us" [12]
Slave owner bequeaths to family enslaved " Negro Woman," "Prince," "Diana," "Jack," "Samuel," "James" and "Cloe" (last 4 valued at 90 (pounds?)) [13]
Funds needed by King's College for "an useful and extensive Library[...]highly conducive to the Success and Prosperity of this infant University" [14]
Member Ward Chipman finds Legislative Assembly disabled by members "as ignorant, as abandoned and wicked, [as should never] be again chosen" [15]
With so many in Europe coming to Nova Scotia and Lower and Upper Canada, New Brunswick needs to state its qualities and "use[...]to the Empire" [16]
Males 16–50 (except Quakers) must enroll in militia and muster with musket or fuzee, bayonet, cartouch box, 1 lb. gunpowder and 2 lbs. bullets [17]
Queensbury Parish includes "a number of Poor People[...]desirous of giving their Children a small Share of Learning" and seeking Assembly's help [18]
As prosecutor in court-martial, Edward Winslow is instructed by Lt. Gov. Carleton to "not only be firm and decisive, but [also] temperate and discreet" [19]
British immigrant, though "farming for Maintenance to his family," owns under 1 acre and petitions for 150 acres between Maquapit and Grand Lake [20]
Abitibi House says its "lavishness of Spiritous Liquors (the chief article that gains the Natives affection) is nothing" compared with Canadians' supply [21]
With "Mr. Best being constantly in Liquor," parcels containing "Liquor and Wine" are missing at Osnaburgh House; "Mr. Best must go home next Year" [22]
"Capt'n. Monk and all his Gang [of Indigenous people] have been in much distress, the half of them are sick and[...]unable to hunt a long time" [23]
Returning from Henley House, Fort Albany men bring "fine Wood for Boat building, fine Elm heels for Battaux, and a quantity of Ash for Floor timbers" [24]
After forcing its way through Hudson Bay ice, bow of brig sailing to Churchill is lifted by rope running from masthead to pack ice to repair damage [25]
Brig on Hudson Bay is struck by lightning, starting fire in cabin and hold and knocking men down - unhurt but "felt as if they had been Electrified" [26]
Church of England liturgy is "the fixed Form of Worship" in Prince Edward Island, but " dissenting [Protestants] shall have free Liberty of Conscience" [27]
U.S. population is 5,172,000, with about 40% living in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts; enslaved in those states: 347,000, 1,600 and none [28]
Thomas Jefferson hears Alexander Mackenzie is going to "North West Country [with smallpox] Vaccine Virus for the benefit of the unfortunate natives" [29]
Of 161 Moravian missionaries who are stationed in various places, 25 are in Labrador (in 3 settlements) [30]