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Events from the year 1814 in Canada.
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Events from the year 1814 in Canada.
"What constitutes the greatness and happiness of a nation:" people's spirit, education, "the political constitution under which they live" etc. [3]
Indigenous people's "firm attachment to our interest[...]adds greatly to our means of defending and securing our Canadian possessions" [4]
London-based charity for poor children's education in Upper and Lower Canada funds school intended for 3–400 boys in Quebec City [5]
Cartoon: William Charles shows "Iohn" Bull as King George "baking" more ships to replace ones taken on "the Lakes," including by "Mac Do-enough" [6]
Pres. Madison informs Congress of U.S. acceptance of U.K. proposal to begin peace negotiations; but not with any relaxation of war preparations [7]
Maryland House of Delegates fears "barbarity" of U.S. forces burning Newark, U.C. may bring "upon our coasts the most direful vengeance" [8]
Editorial says U.S.A. must capture Kingston, Upper Canada; "anything done to the westward [is] taking the lion by the tail only" [9]
Regarding reports of armistice, Secretary of State tells President "the affair [is] unsettled, and might terminate in nothing." [10]
Print: Attack on Ft. Oswego, N.Y., with rescue of wounded British soldiers (foreground) and warships firing on promontory (background) [11]
With Napoleon's fall, U.K. concludes conventions with other Allied Powers, including one keeping them (and France) out of War of 1812 [12]
Editorial: "The war must soon we think change from an offensive to a defensive one on the part of the States[....]" [13]
"Obstinate and sanguinary contest" - Bloody Battle of Lundy's Lane leaves "vast numbers of[...]dead upon the field" [14]
"The power of England was never displayed in Canada like at present. The troops which arrive daily are[...]brigades moved from [France]" [15]
Royal Navy surgeon from Nova Scotia, with British forces in Washington, witnesses burning of Capitol, White House and other sites [16]
U.S. General Macomb reports defeat of British squadron on Lake Champlain and rout of Gen. Prevost's army in Battle of Plattsburgh [17]
John Quincy Adams and 4 other U.S. negotiators assume British are delaying peace treaty talks until after Congress of Vienna [18]
Opinion: U.S. war aim seems to have changed from conquering Canada to preserving "that ascendency which they acquired by the peace of 1783" [19]
Treaty of Ghent ends war and returns captured territory (including lands of First Nations at war) and seized property (including enslaved people) [20]
"Demagogues [exploiting] hatred to England,[...]popular favour, the obsession of power, money [etc., will lead] to eternal war with England" [21]
Map: Lower Canada from Lake St. Francis to Quebec City, with districts, counties, and towns (settler and Indigenous), plus mills, roads and battles [22]
Absence of 15,000 farming men in military and related services, troop movements and camping impede soil tillage and thus good harvests [23]
Troop transport carrying almost 200 soldiers and 21 women and children strikes rock in Gulf of St. Lawrence, leaving 37 survivors (all men) [24]
Editorial hopes that building Lachine Canal will draw investment from not just merchants and real estate men but "persons of every profession" [25]
Act to establish post houses is for travellers' accommodation "and for rendering more certain the communication between different parts" of L.C. [26]
Following death from bite of "a mad dog," court orders dogs and other animals bitten and running loose to be killed or confined by owner [27]
"[A frigate is ordered] built at New-York to be propelled by steam. How inventive [is man to use] the powers of nature to the ends of destruction!" [28]
Varieties of apple tree for sale in Montreal include golden "pipen," Montreal apple, Montreal rennet, Canadian rennet and Canadian nonesuch [29]
Just in from London: "Rich figured, Shot, Twilled, coloured and Black Sarsenets, Black Silk Florentine,[...]Fashionable silk Shawls [etc.]" [30]
Concert in Montreal includes Ignaz Pleyel "Grand Symphony," G.F. Handel song, 2 songs by Thomas Arne, and Joseph Haydn symphony (tickets: 5s) [31]
U.C. harvests have been abundant; "mixed with the evils of war, we notice a fresh spur to industry [and] an increase of commercial enterprize" [32]
"Special Commission" at Ancaster finds 15 people guilty of treason on May 23; their punishment's effect will be "putting down the rebellion" [33]
"When a daring spirit of anarchy and confusion seems to prevail[, it is time to teach] the lessons of obedience and subordination" [34]
John Strachan urges "Loyal Inhabitants of this Province [to be] neither depressed nor discontented [with war's] privations and distresses" [35]
Refugee Indigenous people want to move to Grand River, as Burlington area is "almost exhausted," with "every article of food" expensive [36]
Act declares alien (and thus not allowed land ownership) any U.S.-born person who owns land in U.C. and has returned to U.S.A. during war [37]
Act authorizes erection of market in York "where Butcher's Meat, Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Fish, and Vegetables shall be exposed to Sale" [38]
Militia officers are to wear "a Scarlet Jacket with Dark Blue Facings, Yellow Buttons, Gold Lace round the Collar and Cuff [etc.]" [39]
Committee on "the Trade, Agriculture and Fisheries" of N.S. reports 1814 concerns including supplying fish, cattle etc. to West Indies [40]
Proclamation inviting deserters from U.S.A. is intended to encourage enslaved people to seek freedom [41]
Newspaper reports arrival in Halifax of "a Transport with a few hundred Negroes (dead and alive)" from Chesapeake Bay [42]
John Wentworth has land near Antigonish where New England settlers can be safely placed far from U.S. border, among "3,000 loyal Scots and others" [43]
Surveyor General office will look into request of Thomas Paul and 10 other Mi'kmaq for land near their "choice" 1,100-acre Shubenacadie site [44]
Baptist minister Edward Manning finds parents irreligious and neglectful of "rising generation," who are profane and ignorant [45]
Resolutions of charity for Indigenous people include providing housing and husbandry materials, and advice "with respect to their true interest" [46]
Pres. Thomas Saumarez asks Assembly for grant to buy land for "the oak pack branch of the Melicete tribe," who suffer "want and distress" [47]
Act to prevent killing "partridges" during breeding season (March–September) has per-bird penalty of 10s or 2 days in jail [48]
Indigenous man asks for meadow lot near reserve, which has no natural grass, so he and family can keep cow; lot taken, but there may be others [49]
Young Black man with wife and 3 kids and farming experience, stock and tools seeks grant of 300 acres in Kings County (200 acres allowed) [50]
Agreement for single woman to join family in their house with room, board and washing for £45/year (raised to £55/yr if she moves out) [51]
Fredericton military has "a great many[...]stupid married people and a majority of the single ones not very Brilliant," to "damsels" regret [52]
Penelope Winslow's new husband lost arm in wars, but her "reign as bride has been a brilliant one" with round of dances [53]
U.K. – France treaty returns French right to fish Grand Banks and Newfoundland coast; proprietors on formerly French-occupied coast must move [54]
St. John's townhall agrees "excessive and indiscriminate issue of Notes" is bad, and proposes bank "for the issue of a circulating Medium" [55]
Oversight of St. John's hospital is weakened by disagreement among physicians, and one result is indulgence of quacks attached to some patients [56]
St. John's doctor will give poor children free inoculation of cowpox virus, "for more than fifteen Years[...]found to [prevent smallpox completely]" [57]
Royal Newfoundland Regiment, home after 9 years, have "proved equally serviceable as Soldiers and Sailors[...]both ashore and on the lakes" [58]
Second mate and 12 crew members jump overboard to evade warship's press gang; mate drowns and crew are saved "in a very weak condition" [59]
With seal hunt providing too little sustenance, Moravian missionary says Labrador Inuit should copy settlers and fish for cod [60]
News comes of "massacre" at Fort Nelson of Alexander Henry (who actually drowned later in 1814) and others; writer cites desperation of killers [61]
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