February 4 – Francois Page petitions for monopoly of navigation of Lower Canadian Rivers, by an invention of which he produces a model.
February 18 – Mr. McCord reads a petition for the deepening of the St. Lawrence.
February 28 – One Goudie and others petition for a monopoly of navigation of Lake Champlain, in Canada, as like U.S. monopolists injure Canadian Commerce, by trading into Canada.
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Famine in Newfoundland due to poor postwar economy.
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