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"The iniquity of the [slave] trade is now publickly acknowledged by all parties;" it requires "a speedy and vigorous attempt to indemnify" them [2]
In addition to economic penalties, Parliament has made slave traders subject to 5 years' imprisonment at hard labour or 14 years' transportation [3]
Colonization is easier to get into than out of for "a great nation;" thus Britain pays more annually for Canada and Nova Scotia than they are worth [4]
Trade is greatly increased between British ports and British North American colonies, which "have been so long considered[...]of little value" [5]
Pay "serious attention" to report (pg. 2) on Hudson River - Lake Erie canal; our "prospects of prosperity [may] vanish, perhaps for ever" [6]
U.S.A. allows Bonaparte to govern his conquests but denies Britain "the right to make any laws on the ocean which we have conquered" [7]
"If the United States[...]waged war for territory and ultimate safety, the possession of Canada would[...]be a sufficient inducement for hostility" [8]
"Reinforcement of British Regulars in Canada" shows Britain means war; it recalls Thomas Jefferson's earlier advice to nation: "feel power and forget right" [9]
U.S. government calls British policy toward U.S.A. "[a] blow at the independence of the U. States," as well as stabbing, violation and mockery [10]
"Hostility in the [U.S.] administration towards Great Britain [and] the appalling demands of France[...]must issue in a British war [with] no glory or security" [11]
House of Representatives hears foreign relations committee say that British policy "ought to be resisted by WAR" [12]
"When Jefferson quit the chair of state / He left to Madison his cloak / Impregnated with deadly hate / Against old England's hearts of oak[....]" [13]
Bostonians say Congress, by "coercing the only European nation with whom we have any safe or honorable intercourse," deeply wounds U.S. commerce [14]
Though U.S. leaders are "anxious" for war, "offensive policy [toward British navy] would be madness[...]; but surely it is time to prepare for defence" [15]
Embargo has sent U.S. citizens "pouring into the Canadas[,] proof of the folly and madness of the measures of our government" [16]
Virginia newspaper fears "wisdom and firmness will not be a match for the prejudices and the back stairs influence" members face in Congress [17]
News comes that 5 ships of the line and 10 frigates under command of Joseph Yorke have sailed for America [18]
Rejected British proposals "are the last sacrifices to the spirit of conciliation which has so long prevailed in England towards the United States" [19]
Summary of Pres. Madison's address to Congress calls his language "irritating" and his arguments regarding Great Britain "extremely insulting" [20]
U.S. ambassador to Russia John Quincy Adams says French ambassador "hinted to me that with[...]about five thousand Frenchmen, we could easily take Canada" [21]
Madison accepts British reparations in Chesapeake Affair [22]
Besides Battle of Tippecanoe coverage in Kentucky newspaper is its assertion that U.S.A's "Indian war" is really with British - "Greater Savages" [23]
George Heriot says war is "the principal occupation of mankind," with peacetime used "in multiplying, inventing and improving" weapons [24]
British Bible society supports anyone who considers "Holy Scriptures the proper standard of faith [to spread] divine truth over all the earth" [25]
Gov. Craig's final speech to legislature laments fact that members are "divided among themselves, viewing each other with mistrust and jealousy" [26]
New Gov. George Prevost is to tolerate "the free exercise of the Religion of the Church of Rome," but not recognize it as "an established Church" [27]
In his sermon, Alexander Spark contrasts accepted separation of Church and State with needed link between religion and civil society [28]
Montreal merchant has trouble recognizing his city now that most of his friends are dead and newcomers from U.S.A. are doubling its population [29]
Quebec City firm says market in winter with low demand, wheat crop failure and scarcity of cash could mean lower rum sales, wine sales etc. [30]
"Unprecedented scarcity of specie[...]nearly amounts to a prohibition of commerce of every description;" provincial bank would address problem [31]
"In tenderness[...]to the distressed," farmers who consumed seed grain over winter because of last year's short harvest are facilitated to borrow more [32]
"What is there that could subdue courage regulated by discipline, strengthened by habits of sobriety and order, and founded upon fidelity[....]" [33]
People convicted of crimes for which punishment is burning hand or transportation or death may instead be committed to House of Correction [34]
Reported 600 ships in Quebec taking loads of timber "will supersede in a great measure the importations from Norway or the Baltic" [35]
Lower St. Lawrence pilots ask Assembly not to water down pilot apprenticeship law by licensing coast pilots and other mariners [36]
Court of King's Bench judges are disqualified from election to or voting in Legislative Assembly [37]
Legislature should examine liquor business, which is "injurious to the provincial revenue and destructive to the human constitution" [38]
Brewer John Molson petitions Assembly for exclusive right to manufacture and operate steamboats for Montreal - Quebec City route [39]
Quebec City - Boston stagecoach connection opens with 5-day service including stops at Hatley, Stanstead, St. Johnsbury, VT and Newbury, MA [40]
Merchant ship crew sailing from Quebec, having lost foremast in gale, overwhelms crews of 4 attacking French privateers off southeast England [41]
New Englander describes her Protestant friend "taking the veil" after 3 years' study in Montreal's Hôtel-Dieu "or Convent of Black Nuns" [42]
Long-established Quebec City school teaches boys reading, writing and arithmetic plus everything from logarithms to architecture to history to Greek [43]
Books for small children containing "their letters and the most simple elements of science and religion" will benefit them even on frontiers [44]
Books in Montreal Library include "Shakespeare (as now performed)," Johnson's Dictionary, Pamela, Robinson Crusoe, and Sorrows of Werter [45]
Quebec City's ladies, gentlemen and children can learn penmanship through instruction based "upon a new, improved, elementary and systematic plan" [46]
Editorial says street lighting in Montreal would cause "brilliancy[...]which could not fail to facinate[ sic ] the fair sex and induce them to make evening excursions and occasional visits to their friends" [47]
Exhibition has more than "Twenty artificial persons at work at different branches of business;" they move "by mechanical machinery alone" [48]
Print: Montreal seen from Mount Royal [49]
Map: Upper and Lower Canada, from Lake Winnipeg to Lower St. Lawrence River and James Bay to New Jersey [50]
"I shall[...]facilitate as many good people into the Province as I possibly can" - Loyalist recruits people in Schenectady, N.Y. to move to U.C. [51]
Indian Affairs department seeks "to recommend to the Indian[s] Peace and should any attack be made on them by the Americans, to retire" [52]
"Vast superiority" of Christian religion over "that of the unfortunate Heathen [is shown by] the consolation which it gives the afflicted" [53]
Because so many debtors leave U.C. without paying debts, sum below which arrest can be made is reduced from £10 sterling to 40s provincial currency [54]
"Nothing weakens parental authority so much as its improper exertion" - Boarder says woman fails to discipline sons who continually oppose her [55]
Quaker women's meeting formally disowns Mela/Mila Richmond after finding her "making herself too familiar with a man" not her husband [56]
Quaker committee finds Jeremiah Moore "altho he may stand on the U. E. List [cannot be judged to have received] his lands for any service in war" [57]
Boxing is bad: "The violation of law is rendered fashionable and popular, either by the passions of our nature, or the contagion of influential examples" [58]
Provincial bank is proposed to counter loss of specie, unfavourable exchange rate with U.S.A. and necessary bartering of goods and services [59]
Two brigs and 11 schooners from south coast will, if lucky, catch nearly 10,000 quintals for likely high demand for cod and strong West Indies market [60]
"This is a Serious loss to the Owners & underwriters" - Brig taken by French privateer in Caribbean was underwritten £1,200 by Simeon Perkins [61]
While primary school can be set up by people in any community, only trustees appointed by lieutenant governor can set up grammar schools [62]
Governor Prevost tells legislators "persons with deranged minds [greatly need] the accommodation and medical aid their wretched situations [require]" [63]
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have "so many vulnerable Points to an invading Army that it is difficult to establish any precise Plan" for defence [64]
Inspection of Nova Scotia Fencibles regiment finds men and officers perform well, but in inferior clothing and with arms needing repair [65]
Trespassers on timber lot say owner has no title; producing deed, he resolves to sue more often, as his "Lenity" is taken for permissiveness [66]
Liverpool "Over seers of the Poor" apprentice out two Blacks, "they being poor and not taken Care of by their Mothers" [67]
Law to stop boys and others from sledding on steep Halifax streets makes underage children's parents and apprentices' masters pay 20s fine [68]
Lawyers making full-day case out of 2-hour suit "are two Young Lawyers & wish to display their abilities and Law Learning in All the Niceties" [69]
Deep snow in woods is "a great advantage to the people [sledding] as wood is very Scarce and Tanners have their Bark in the woods" [70]
Many watched as Lydia Dexter (over 70 years old) and Baptist minister "walked into the water [near Liverpool, and] he Baptized her in the Name &c." [71]
Saint John charter mandates provincial governor annually to pick mayor, sheriff and coroner while freeholders elect aldermen and constables [72]
New Brunswick Fencibles renamed 104th Regiment, making N.B. first province "that has raised a regiment of the Line for his Majesty" [73]
Indigenous Julian family are assured government support to stop neighbors usurping their hay field on Little Southwest Branch of Miramichi River [74]
Unmarried woman declares she has no property or income in Britain besides £33+ she receives from Treasury and £40 from insurance office annually [75]
Edward Winslow has "a gingerbread color'd young savage boy that I have undertaken to tame[...]but he's good natur'd, tractable & honest" [76]
St. John's civic leaders ask Prince Regent to see to paving, lighting, and widening of streets, establishing market, endowing seminary, etc. [77]
Want of specie being "very serious detriment to Trade," price of silver will rise if rates are set for "English stamped Dollar [and] Spanish Dollar" [78]
Gov. John Duckworth approves of plan to tax each servant 1 penny per pound of their wages to help raise funds for general hospital in St. John's [79]
Benevolent Irish Society resolves, "That considering the advanced price of Provisions," additional charitable funds should be raised [80]
Four "Medical Practitioners" have decided to charge families "according to their different circumstances," but not less than what they previously paid [81]
Besides lightning strike, waterspout and lunar eclipse, HMS Minerva records all-night rainbow that "celebrated Astronomer [aboard called] a Fog-bow" [82]
B must make return visit after A pays "a complimental visit" to B, except when A is "Negro Tom; no, that would be rather too highly coloured" [83]
Reader's thought on poetry in newspaper: "I think it shews as much as any other thing, that Literature is making progress where it is encouraged" [84]
Print: St. John's seen from outside the Narrows, with warships and other craft in foreground [85]
In last of series of letters between North West Co. members and Hudson's Bay Co., HBC rejects idea that trade NWC has diverted should be conceded [86]
"Murder" by Hudson's Bay Co. employee "far removed from the protection of Justice" leads North West Co. to seek "some arrangement" to prevent violence [87]
"The interests of the Company and[...]the condition of the Indians are reciprocally dependent upon each other" - Northwest Company's liquor policy [88]
Extreme cold and collapse of hare population forces North West Company men on Mackenzie River to chew hides, including 300+ beaver skins [89]
Map: District of Assiniboia before 49th parallel was designated as international boundary [90]
Discussion of problems: supplying Indigenous people ("while we brutalize him with Brandy"), stopping fraud of chief factors, and satisfying men [91]
"Misfortunes never come single to perfect the miseries of the poor Indians," with collapse of arctic fox, marten and ptarmigan populations [92]
Churchill men refuse to work on HBC terms, one demanding raise to £22 from £8 and "all expectation of any one renewing his contract was given up" [93]
HBC deserter to North West Company is told he is now "a freeman in the Country [but] would never be permitted to return to Orkney" in HBC ship [94]
Separated from his family on winter trip and falling through ice, possibility of their starving pushes factor to advance by breaking ice with his chest [95]
Prince Edward Island has unique "time of general scarcity," with little hay, potatoes and grain "to supply four months consumption" [96]
Moravian missionaries report some Inuit "are spiritually sick and ailing" and take refuge in customs "unbecoming the character of children of God" [97]
