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Events from the year 1770 in Canada.
Hard winters and scarcity of farm staples and manufactures useful in Britain make northern colonies dependent on West Indies, not mother country [3]
Warships will form line from Cape Race, Newfoundland to latitude of Cape Cod to prevent smuggling to St. Lawrence, Nova Scotia coast and Massachusetts [4]
British in Quebec request general assembly to encourage agriculture and trade and attach increasingly poor Canadians to economy and British law [5]
Canadians request return of their laws, which are basis of their property and family rule, and public office from which they are humiliatingly excluded [6]
Reward of $200 offered for information on "the Malefactors and abominable people that have, and attempt yet every Day, to set Fire to this Town" [7]
Since surveyor appointed, small number of chimney fires shows benefit of chimney law, and minding fireplaces may save "us from that dreadful Calamity" [8]
Lightning coming down chimney to fireplace she was kneeling at kills woman in Charlebourg, her last words being "My God, I am dying: Help" [9]
After saying he would kill his wife to priest (and requesting he "assist him at the Gallows"), Quebec man attempts murder and then kills himself [10]
Coroner's Inquest conclusions (previously called verdicts) finds Catharine Alexander's stillborn baby was given for burial to "ignorant Woman [who] indecently" put coffin in snow behind prison [11]
Advertisement for shipping on Lakes Ontario, Erie and Huron - "infinitely less liable to hazard" than going "defenceless[...]to be seized by the Savages" [12]
Illinois Country whites (pop. ca. 2,000) have connections with Canada and local Indigenous people, and tend to trade and hunt more than farm [13]
Dinner given at Northwest Arm near Halifax in celebration of Festival of St. Aspinquid, with toasts to Hendrick, Uncas, Massasoit and other sachems [14]
Nova Scotia townships must support only resident poor people and orphans, excepting poor and disabled people who can be supported by family [15]
Needy "dissenting Ministers" of Nova Scotia will benefit from interest earned on charitable fund "warmly recommended" by 28 such clergymen in London [16]
Interest on loans in Nova Scotia to be no higher than 6% (with grandfather clause) and lenders charging higher rate are to pay triple value of loan made [17]
St. John's Island looking for fishers to settle, where they will pay no duty on rum, molasses "or any other Commodity necessary for Fishermen" [18]
George Cartwright's sighting of Beothuk evokes long description of them and Newfoundlanders' murderous attitude toward them (Note: "wild" used) [19]
St. John's merchants tell Gov. Byron Newfoundland trade suffers from previous governor, worker neglect, loss of settlers, drinking, and customs delays [20]
Church of the Brethren missionaries establish selves among "Esquimaux" in Labrador with view to settlement (Note: stereotypes of Indigenous people) [21]
Moravian missionary purchases land from head Inuk in each tent because "you are all Lords + Masters[...], each of you says He is Master of the Land" [22]
After Inuit men of "Esquimaux Bay" acknowledge violence of past, missionary consults with them on where Moravians should build their house [23]
Inuit acknowledge that they are Brethren's children and must attend their meetings and do what they are told to do [24]
George Cartwright describes construction of Inuit sled made of spruce planks, whale jaw bone runners and walrus hide thongs [25]
Samuel Hearne on expedition is irked but not dismayed by ways of his Indigenous guide ("Con-ne-e-quese"; Note: "niggard" means ungenerous person) [26]
Hearne quotes Indigenous leader Matonabbee as saying women are made for labour, such as carrying, hauling, making and mending clothing etc. [27]
Hearne describes moose hide tent and its use as woodland tipi early on his expedition northwest from Prince of Wales Fort, Churchill [28]
Events from the year 1764 in Canada.
Events from the year 1765 in Canada.
Events from the year 1766 in Canada.
Events from the year 1767 in Canada.
Events from the year 1768 in Canada.
Events from the year 1769 in Canada.
Events from the year 1771 in Canada.
Events from the year 1772 in Canada.
Events from the year 1773 in Canada.
Events from the year 1774 in Canada.
Events from the year 1775 in Canada.
Events from the year 1776 in Canada.
Events from the year 1777 in Canada.
Events from the year 1778 in Canada.
Events from the year 1779 in Canada.
Events from the year 1780 in Canada.
Events from the year 1781 in Canada.
Events from the year 1783 in Canada.
Events from the year 1784 in Canada.
Events from the year 1785 in Canada.