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Events from the year 1795 in Canada.
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After Battle of Fallen Timbers, Lord Dorchester reports "Western Tribes positively demanded Assistance from the British and from the Six Nations" [2]
After visiting Upper Canada in 1795, Duke de la Rochefoucauld explains Governor General Lord Dorchester's powers and their limitations [3]
Dorchester lays out moves he had to make to keep U.S. Gen. Anthony Wayne from starting war at Detroit, given British diplomatic policy and U.S. politics [4]
Indian Department official strongly recommends that Indigenous leaders not be given liquor when land deals and other business is to be done [5]
Jay Treaty gives such advantage to British traders "that American traders will not be able to maintain a competition with them" [6]
After crossing from British to U.S. lines and going to Cincinnati, William Kenny sends apology to former enslaver Alexander McKee for leaving him [7]
"The general failure of the crops this year" has induced Gov. Gen. Lord Dorchester to prohibit their export until December [8]
Agricultural Society offers $40 (or gold medal or silver cup) for "largest quantity of merchantable Fall or Winter Wheat" grown on 1 arpent for 1797 [9]
Ships from places of "plague, pestilence or disease" must quarantine; guns may be used to compel, and captains hiding disease commit capital crime [10]
Dorchester should work out with "Law Officers" and Protestant bishop how to make Church lands and Crown land productive and lucrative [11]
Montreal notary offers cash for Lower and Upper Canada land certificates belonging to those "inclined to dispose of the same" [12]
Teenage apprentice in Gazette printing shop dies of head wound from musket ball fired through window; coroner's verdict: willful murder [13]
Apprentice "about fourteen years old, middling stout of his age, with a remarkable flat nose" is missing, but "will be well treated" if he returns [14]
Baby lies next to hole in Lake Champlain ice where sleigh fell through; mother probably threw her to safety; good start to "a heroine's life in a novel" [15]
In addition to schooling for young men and public, "Messieurs Tanswell and Son" offer young women education they cannot receive in schools [16]
Montreal pastry chef offers "sweetmeats, conserves, blancmanges, gellies, and pyes hot or cold for journies, en gras et en maigre" [17]
Establishing British Constitution in U.C. offers "best method gradually[...]to disarm the spirit of democratic subversion" where it arose [18]
Thinking it conflicts with his authority, Lt. Gov. Simcoe wants reform of Indian Department, which he finds ignorant and indolent and people distrust [19]
Persons (including those born British subjects) from other countries must have lived in U.C. 7 years to be electable to legislature [20]
Settlers approved by Governor in Council may receive 200–1,200 acres of land, of which 2% must be cleared in first 3 years and 5% in next 4 years [21]
Simcoe links (pg. 349) education to "Children of the principal People[...]to qualify them for[...]leading functions in the Church and State" [22]
Simcoe wants "Protestant Episcopal University" in U.C. (or even in U.S.A.) to raise learned and united clergy favourable to Great Britain [23]
Simcoe wants pro-British newspapers "to counteract the baneful effects of the News Papers of the United States disseminated with great Industry" [24]
Temporary agreement requires U.C. not to tax goods from Lower Canada, but L.C. may tax goods from U.C., returning one-eighth of net to U.C. [25]
Early problems with bringing Pennsylvania Moravian Germans ("a moral, frugal, industrious, exemplary sect") to Upper Canada [26]
Simcoe told that Jay Treaty "will [concentrate] your future measures and [reduce] them to the internal Regulation and security of Upper Canada" [27]
After visiting U.C. in 1795, Duke de la Rochefoucauld alleges Simcoe's ambitions, plans and "maxims of government" at length [28]
Joseph Brant says disposing of some Indigenous land on Grand River is needed "to relieve the distressed Indians[...]not able to help themselves" [29]
Chabondasheam and three other Ojibwe chiefs agree to cede Penetanguishene region to British for £100 in goods [30]
Physician believes sickness in settlements comes from bad air emitted by rotting clearcut trees, and that they (including roots) should be burned [31]
Attempts to grow wild rice in England unsuccessful, so English visitor requests seeds (manoomin; Zizania palustris) from Upper Canada [32]
Joseph Banks reports find of "Indian earthen ware" at abandoned village near Lake Huron, and resembling pottery from Peru and Mexico [33]
Niagara woman's children escorted to New York City by her husband, travelling for one week through winter woods (accompanied by Joseph Brant) [34]
Painting: Niagara Falls [35]
Lt. Gov. Wentworth says prosperity is increasing, provincial revenue will probably not need further duties and public debt will be extinguished [36]
Agriculture Society offers prizes totalling £100 to farmers raising most or heaviest quantity of wheat, flax seed, turnips, oxen, sheep and bulls [37]
Prohibition on further export of "Wheat and other Grain, Flour, Peas, Beef, Pork, and other Provisions" for 5 months [38]
Inspector-General of Mines wants both "Country Gentlemen [and] the Poor-Man" to watch for coal, gold, silver, copper, lead and other minerals [39]
Squadron commander at Halifax offers "exemption from all punishment" to deserters who return to service and possible recovery of forfeited wages [40]
Being exempt from militia service, Quakers ages 21-50 must work 4 days each year on highways or pay 3 shilling per day fine [41]
Loyalist with 200 acres in Shelburne County wants marshy tract where he can harvest hay for cattle that will support sawmill he plans to build [42]
Petition submitted on behalf of group planning grist and sawmill, who as Protestants are wanted because district is more than two-thirds Roman Catholic [43]
After militia fail to come to their aid, local inhabitants fire on its crew to drive off French privateer and rescue two ships taken by it [44]
"This morning his Majesty sloop of War 'Lynx', Capt. Hall, with two Mast-Ships under convoy, arrived here from New-Brunswick" [45]
Man is lost going from Chester to Windsor despite warning of "extreme badness of the road" and "changeableness and extremity of the weather" [46]
Night school open to teach youth "Arithmetic, Vulger, Decimal and Logarithmic,[...]Trigonometry, plain and spherical" and many other subjects [47]
Dancing school opened in Halifax "where Young Ladies and Gentlemen may be taught Minutes [sic], Country Dances, Cotillions and Hornpipes" [48]
The Beaux' Stratagem comedy to be presented for one night only; box seats 5 shillings, pit 3s [49]
"Umberella; Whoever has got one, on which[...]Theft is written in large Characters, is requested to return it to the Owner at Prince Edward Coffee-House" [50]
Letter to the editor reminds voters in House of Assembly election that "recent experience" shows men lacking "the shadow of capability" can win seats [51]
At polling place to elect new Legislative Assembly, James Glenie enlightens Sunbury freeholders on work of suddenly dissolved previous Assembly [52]
Address to Lt. Governor by Legislative Assembly notes that Saint John, St. Andrews and adjacent coast are not protected by guard ships on station [53]
Posing as French privateer, schooner Solide, "a piratical vessel fitted out of Charleston" South Carolina, is taken by British sloop-of-war Lynx [54]
Man says his wife "has, for this four years past, followed an excess of drinking, [and] left my Bed and Board, and her Family in great distress" [55]
North West Company voyageurs are "equal to any thing" and "patient, emulous; indefatigable, and capable of performing seeming impossibilities" [56]
Unlike other Indigenous peoples, Cree receive praise from Roderick Mackenzie as "good hunters, hospitable and brave" [57]
John MacDonell gives "Grand Diable" keg of liquor and "a Chiefs Clothing" for sending so many to trade and "giving the Fort a good name" [58]
"The Brigade" finds many bison carcasses along Assiniboine River; "7360 Drown'd & mired along the River and in it; three to five files deep" on shore [59]
Eleven York Factory men sent 100 miles (160 km) with 5 months' provisions to fell trees and saw planks, as "the Carpenters are at a stand" [60]
York chief factor's nephew "dreadfully mutulated" when fireworks he has in shirt pockets ignite at Guy Fawkes Night bonfire [61]
Children at Moose Factory taught reading and writing mornings and evenings, and boys work at clearing snow, setting snares, assisting men, etc. [62]
Moravian missionaries at Hopedale, Labrador "speak to the heathen, that [they] hearken [and] be translated[...]from the power of Satan to God" [63]
British officer reports Spanish evacuation of Nootka and turnover to British forces [64]
Chiefs of Seven Nations of Canada write to George Washington regarding return of their land in New York State [65]
St. John's Island (Prince Edward Island) legislature prohibits geese running loose in Charlottetown, and that such geese will go to public auction [66]
Dresses worn by Queen Charlotte, Princess of Wales, her bride's maids and various ladies are part of news coverage of Prince of Wales' wedding [67]
Events from the year 1806 in Canada.
Events from the year 1767 in Canada.
Events from the year 1769 in Canada.
Events from the year 1770 in Canada.
Events from the year 1782 in Canada.
Events from the year 1784 in Canada.
Events from the year 1785 in Canada.
Events from the year 1786 in Canada.
Events from the year 1787 in Canada.
Events from the year 1788 in Canada.
Events from the year 1789 in Canada.
Events from the year 1790 in Canada.
Events from the year 1791 in Canada.
Events from the year 1792 in Canada.
Events from the year 1793 in Canada.
Events from the year 1794 in Canada.
Events from the year 1796 in Canada.
Events from the year 1797 in Canada.
Events from the year 1798 in Canada.
Events from the year 1799 in Canada.
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