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Events from the year 1805 in Canada.
Settler writes to Scottish Highlands friends "I never knew what actual freedom or the spirit of equality was till I came to Canada" [3]
"This country derives little credit from the young men it sends abroad into the world;" Why?: "too little restraint in the bringing up" [4]
Canadian Regiment of Fencible Infantry is recruiting in Lower and Upper Canada for service "in America and not elsewhere;" enlistment bounty: £5 -/6 [5]
U.S. Secretary of State James Madison purchases George Heriot's The History of Canada from its first discovery [6]
Call for road to be built from Quebec City through "New Settlements" to U.S.A., which will allow more trade and encourage population growth [7]
"Vendor or Lendor" has preference over any other creditor when they provide grain (seed or "bread") or potatoes to grower suffering poor harvest [8]
Ceremonial presentation of colours to Quebec City militia battalion is "grand and impressive beyond any thing usually witnessed in this country" [9]
Montreal merchants call for laws to raise water level in Lachine Rapids, regulate pilots there and stop theft of lumber when rafts are wrecked [10]
No sale of goods or alcoholic drinks on Sundays, except that latter can be sold to sick people and to travellers at meals [11]
Post office calls for proposals to carry mail between Montreal and Burlington, Vt. on 100-mile route; £100 security required from contractor [12]
Editorial describes "folly [and] depravity" of young criminals, especially where "the soil [and] far extended commerce" offer so much opportunity [13]
Orchardists in Parish of Montreal must tie cloth around trunk of each apple tree and cover it with tar to stop spread of inchworms [14]
Surveyor will teach branches of mathematics as applied to mensuration, gauging, navigation, gunnery, fortification, architecture, surveying etc. [15]
Dr. S. Solomon's Guide to Health offers remedies for diseases under several headings, including Dancing, Heavy suppers, Timidity, and Virgins [16]
Quebec City theatre to be built for "several Young Men [who] possess strong Theatrical qualifications, particularly in the comic cast of Characters" [17]
Opera by "Mr. Quesnel of Boucherville[...]is perhaps the first piece of the kind that has been written and performed in this province" [18]
New "Bottled Beer Business" will sell 3 kinds (brewed in St. Roch) ranging in price from 8/6 to 10/6 per dozen, with 3/- paid when bottles returned [19]
Benjamin Rush reluctantly allows his daughter to marry British army officer she met while visiting her married sister in Montreal [20]
Profile of U.C. includes produce, trade, York and various townships, towns and waterways [21]
"Indenture" of original 1787 Toronto Purchase agreement transferring Mississaugas' land to government has borders not corrected until 2010 settlement [22]
After watching "old drunken Indian and his squaw" be refused liquor, visitor hears "greatest part" of Indigenous people's presents is traded for liquor [23]
Creditor is to maintain their jailed debtor at 5 shillings per week if such debtor swears they are not worth £5 [24]
Methodist women ensure conversion at Hay Bay, Upper Canada revival meeting [25]
"The authority, the love of a husband even out does that of a parent" - immigrant visits parents on Long Island, N.Y., but feels pull to return home [26]
"This heroine" - Pitcairn Township (near York) woman chases bear that had carried off neighbour's sow into forest and shoots it through head [27]
English traveller finds Niagara Falls' roar and mist make them seem closer than they are, and learns constant earth tremor shakes window glass [28]
"Aspect terrible" - Perhaps 150-foot snake chases rowboat crossing Lake Ontario from Kingston [29]
Fishery revival to come following order to West Indian governors to largely close ports to U.S. imports and charge them same duty "these colonies" pay [30]
With Nova Scotia–U.S.A. trade ended (except in case of grain crop failure), N.S. feels Lower Canada should remove extra duty L.C. puts on trade [31]
During war, £90 will not buy what £50 could pre-war and 5% income tax and 10% depreciation in "Government Bills" depress wealth [32]
Signs of "poverty & distress among the people when we See So many of [them] go off and leave their Creditors without making any provision to pay them" [33]
Units of Royal Newfoundland Regiment, "a very fine body of" about 550 men, arrive in Halifax [34]
Captain of ship out of N.S. tells of being captured by French fleet in West Indies and avoiding burning by claiming to be U.S. ship [35]
With aid of British consul in Boston, Salem, Massachusetts party successfully gets release in Halifax of fishermen impressed on board frigate [36]
People lacking Episcopalian schoolhouse or church are open to "stro[l]ling fanatical teachers" turning them against established church and government [37]
Privateer out of Liverpool "has about 30 Negroes and to the value of about £3,000" and will "dispose" of them as soon as possible [38]
Liverpool has "rumpus" over feared press by warship; 3 Black men go into hiding and officer struck with cutlass before misunderstanding is cleared up [39]
Ice damages flume at Simeon Perkins' sawmill, halting production which had yielded him $4/day and possibly preventing loading of brig for Newfoundland [40]
As ship departs, Perkins is less sad seeing his son leave than watching another man say goodbye to his son who will go seafaring and rarely come home [41]
N.B.'s resources listed; loyal population ignored by government but not privateers, and quit-rents "in this moment of their depression" are ruinous [42]
Edward Winslow says "broken" Council president will not be recalling General Assembly, affecting trade and causing "gloom sulkiness + despondency" [43]
Grammar school is to be set up in Saint John plus two schools in each county, rotating schools to different parish each year [44]
In letter to Moose Factory, Fort Albany chief calls "Canadians[...]indefatigable to push on in the (HBC's) territories" [45]
Letter from Moose Factory to Fort Albany reports threats and abuse by Canadians against HBC employee "Quatchimay" and his wife and women fishing [46]
Painting: "East View of Moose Factory" [47]
Fort Albany replies to Moose Factory request for help that its trade (much larger at "20,000" as opposed to "7000") requires every man it can get [48]
Painting: "A South East View of Albany Factory: A Winter View" [49]
Jobs that are done at Churchill for its success and survival; it has poor location and shaky construction from use of Prince of Wales Fort ruins [50]
Six-day sea voyage in bateau from Churchill toward York Factory and back with load of liquor [51]
Northwest Company trader going to Cross Lake with Indigenous people reverses travel-direction marks they leave for traders at "English House" [52]
Chipewyans hold on to their religion (called "a state of the darkest superstition and ignorance") and believe they are superior to whites in knowledge [53]
"It is customary[...]to have a fair Partner" - Fur trader decides to take teenage mixed-race girl as his country wife [54]
"How dreadfully afflicting my situation" - Disabled man is lost for 40 days on Manitoba prairies [55]
U.S. claim to North America's northwest coast defied by Russian traders as near as Haida Gwaii and likely to try to usurp even Spanish-claimed lands [56]
John Jewitt rescued from two years of slavery in Nootka Sound by brig captain out of Boston holding Chief Maquinna hostage [57]
"Natives came out of their houses with lighted sticks, beating upon a plank[...]and singing to the moon" - Indigenous people observe lunar eclipse [58]
"To make the Island more generally known" - Brief profile of Prince Edward Island [59]
Louisiana governor suggests putting military posts on Wisconsin and Missouri rivers to control importation from Montreal and Assiniboine River [60]
Map: Louisiana, including adjacent British and Spanish territory [61]
Fire destroys most of Detroit, "seat of government of the Michigan Territory, [with] upwards of 300 houses, built of wood, in a compact manner" [62]
Moravian missionaries in Labrador claim Jesus has melted "the hard hearts of the Esquimaux, harder by nature than the rocks they inhabit" [63]
Mention of "the lamented death of our illustrious Hero, Lord Nelson" [64]
Events from the year 1800 in Canada.
Events from the year 1801 in Canada.
Events from the year 1803 in Canada.
Events from the year 1802 in Canada.
Events from the year 1804 in Canada.
Events from the year 1806 in Canada.
Events from the year 1772 in Canada.
Events from the year 1774 in Canada.
Events from the year 1778 in Canada.
Events from the year 1780 in Canada.
Events from the year 1781 in Canada.
Events from the year 1782 in Canada.
Events from the year 1787 in Canada.
Events from the year 1790 in Canada.
Events from the year 1792 in Canada.
Events from the year 1795 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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