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Events from the year 1818 in Canada.
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Events from the year 1818 in Canada.
"For [North] America to open its arms and its soil to the redundant population of other countries is[...]fulfilling the designs of God and nature" [3]
James Madison says Canada is "source of collision" for U.S., and as state it would remove more weakness from U.K. than add strength to U.S. [4]
Editor notes sarcasm in London papers when former viceroy of Ireland is named British North America governor, but usefulness is superior to rank [5]
Immigrant should bring £300–400 or risk either working land without enough food and far from market town, or working his trade in summer only [6]
99th Regiment is ordered home to be disbanded, but only 200 of one 900-man battalion are leaving, with rest continuing long residence [7]
Merchants express "alarm and apprehension" at British government's apparent goal of raising duty on British North American timber [8]
Methodist missionary says dancing creates expense, injures health, promotes drunkenness, inflames passions, destroys soul forever etc. [9]
In throne speech, governor informs legislature that it will have to "vote the sums necessary for the ordinary annual expenditure of the Province" [10]
Letter to editor opposes death penalty for lesser crimes, as it does not deter crime and its severity prompts not guilty verdicts from juries [11]
Immigrants who would have worked on deferred Lachine canal have gone to work on Erie Canal, delaying needed growth of L.C.'s inland navigation [12]
Wet weather does not help French Canadian farmers leaving grain spread on ground to dry; grain in stooks and sheaves is little injured [13]
Sum of £2,000, divided by agricultural society among Quebec, Montreal and Trois-Rivières districts, is to encourage grain and cattle farmers [14]
Winter wheat trial on Jacques-Cartier River near Quebec City "has so far completely succeeded" [15]
Quebec City district (population 100,000) cannot rely on 2 overworked and underpaid magistrates]] to oversee improvements sorely needed [16]
Editorial: Only "habits of industry and moral restraint" will prevent poverty, and only charity can be expected to provide relief [17]
Quebec City licensed physicians claim law governing medicine has not stopped quackery nor established qualification of medical students [18]
Physicians will pay annual fee for every patient sent to Quebec City dispensary who is poor and ill or lying-in, or child needing cowpox vaccine [19]
Given "alarming extent" of depredations, Montreal grand jury recommends hiring police officers with annual salaries to search for culprits [20]
Commissioners for Insane Persons and Foundlings suggest there are "persons who, although insane, ought not to be shut up in the Cells" [21]
Quebec Bank founded with capital stock not exceeding £150,000 in 3,000 £50 shares; founders will superintend until directors elected [22]
Central registry in Quebec City will have lists of arriving settlers and their professions, servants seeking positions, houses to let etc. [23]
Long description of canoe ride down St. Lawrence rapids, comparing pilot's manoeuvring through danger to going between Scylla and Charybdis [24]
Three boys are poisoned by eating Carotte à Moreau, two of them (7- and 5-year-old) fatally, while third survives after his mother makes him vomit [25]
Inventors Peter Paddleford and another man ask patent for wool spinning machine to allow one youth to spin more than 8 adults can [26]
Petition from Devon County parish asks for regulations to address problem of houses without chimneys, wandering cattle, bad road surfaces etc. [27]
John Neilson asks for disallowance of James McCallum's by-election win because violence and corruption were used to defeat him [28]
Theatre "has a powerful tendency, when properly directed, to mend the morals, inform the understanding, delight the mind and add a polish to manners" [29]
Popular actor will receive benefit]] of New Theatre's production of "Rugantino" melodrama; plot is summarized in newspaper ad [30]
Concert at Montreal's New Theatre includes music from Handel's oratorios Messiah and Jephtha, plus recitation from Milton's Paradise Lost [31]
New publications: The Berlin Waltz (with 2 folio pages) and collection of 12 new German waltzes [32]
Mrs. Johannah Fraser, "Pupil of the late Mrs. Fleming,[...]has recommenced Business in the Mantua-making Line" [33]
Quebec City store has "a Fashionable Assortment of black Bombazeens, Canton Crapes, black twilled and plain Sarsnetts, black silk Stockings [etc.]" [34]
At auction is jewelry including amber, coral and cornelian, "Elegant Gold Broaches set in Pearl, Amythist & Topas [etc.]" [35]
Remains of Richard Montgomery are raised and taken to New York "after resting in peace for forty-two years within the walls" of Quebec City [36]
Musquakie, Kaqueticum and three other Ojibwe chiefs transfer 1,592,000 acres between London and Lake Simcoe to Crown for £1,200 in goods yearly [37]
"Adjutant," Weggishigomin and three other Mississauga chiefs transfer land between Etobicoke and Burlingon Bay for £522 in goods yearly [38]
Buckquaquet, Pishikinse and three other Ojibwe chiefs tranfer 1,951,000 acres between Lake Simcoe and Trent River for £740 in goods yearly [39]
"The Indians dwindle away, and recede as the settlements of the Whites extend[;] we are happy to see the population of the Province advancing" [40]
John Simpson says "there are a species of offenders in this country[...]that considers all government as an oppression" [41]
Author castigates Robert Fleming Gourlay as revolutionary intent on bringing down government and constitution [42]
Convention will petition Prince Regent directly about "land granting department" and grievances of war sufferers and militiamen expecting land [43]
After weeks of pro- and anti-Gourlay letters, Kingston Gazette editor apologizes for printing letter that didn't observe "truth and decorum" [44]
Gathering people in assembly or committee to petition government is illegal because it might encourage sedition or "Riot, Tumult, and Disorder" [45]
Articles of Association of the Bank of Upper Canada call for capital stock of not more than £125,000 in 5,000 shares of £25 each [46]
Bible Society of Upper Canada finds "the state of religious knowledge in this Province is extremely deficient," and dispensing Bibles will help [47]
Editorial: substantial oak trees and tall [[Pine#Timber and construction|pines can finance poor farmer's clearance of his land and purchase of cattle and farming implements [48]
Crimes committed in areas of U.C. that aren't divided into townships or counties may be tried in any district court [49]
Court finds all defendants charged as accessories in death of Gov. Semple at Seven Oaks not guilty; recounting of battle follows [50]
"After struggling upwards of seven years[...]to exonerate himself from debt," man will pay equal shares of his property's value to creditors [51]
Newspaperman requires payments owing, including from those saying "'he surely can't mean me [who is] not more than two or THREE years in arrear!'" [52]
Bet, "a Servant black woman," and 2-year-old child are sought by Belleville resident offering 6p reward [53]
Inventor's trial in York harbour of his machine-powered boat is successful; it is designed to propel small craft in light or contrary winds [54]
"Agricultural spirit," avoiding England's "foolish contest [between] commercial and landed interest," encourages foundation of provincial agricultural society [55]
Guide to subjects covered in long series of newspaper articles on farming in N.S., including raising crops and keeping animals [56]
Letter to editor says with N.S. ports shut to all and trade kept under many restrictions, giving "an air of freedom to our commerce" is needed [57]
Treasury Department orders prohibition in Boston of ships from Halifax and Saint Johns despite British order in council that they are free ports [58]
U.S.-U.K. dispute over Nova Scotia fishery sees U.S. drop idea of limiting its fishing to set area because fish migrate along coast [59]
Hospital on waterfront gives surgery, medical attendance and medicines at "One-Half the ordinary town charges," plus separate maternity ward [60]
Details of attending new Vaccine Institution against smallpox in Halifax (and 14 other locations) include "Instructions for Vaccine Inoculation" [61]
Author castigates First Nations people as stupid, begging, apathetic, useless, idle, filthy, uncivilized, degraded and wretched [62]
Death at Halifax brothel called "another dreadful instance of depravity and wretchedness under its polluted roof" [63]
Bishop of Quebec pleased by Acadians of Torbay, Chezzetcook, St. Mary's Bay and Argyle and Highlanders of Meragomish, St. Margaret and Antigonish [64]
Brief guide to Cape Breton Island for immigrants [65]
Petition of "destitute" fishery merchants asks for bounty on importing salt and on larger fishing vessels for Grand Banks and Labrador [66]
Special jury is to set boundaries for coal mining operations and decide compensation for owners of land taken up by coal mines [67]
Unused part of 240-acre Halifax Common is to be leased in 50 half-acre lots to build and plant trees on by people keeping horses and cattle [68]
Woman falls 21 ft. into well lacking railing, but safely hits 9 ft. of water, though she's extremely tired after calling for 15 minutes [69]
Jacob Pence offers 6p reward for arrest of 18-year-old employee Jacob Pence Jr., who has received goods in Halifax shops in Sr.'s name [70]
New bakery will sell hot rolls before breakfast hour, loaf bread, and tea bread for evening, plus biscuits, crackers and "choice" gingerbread [71]
Night school especially for "Artificers, Mariners" and others will teach several subjects, and sea captains and mates will get private lessons [72]
Furniture for sale: dining and Pembroke tables, rosewood-banded card and sofa tables, hair- and canvas-covered sofas, bedstead sofas etc. [73]
"Pedemetorist" shoemaker uses "his Researches to the operative Causes of Freedom, Ease and equal Pressure" to create lasts for customers [74]
Imported from England: straw bonnets (broad and fine "imperial Chip"), morocco and cordovan shoes, men's "full dress (silk lined)" shoes etc. [75]
Boston fashions for single men include wearing beaver or straw hat low over one eye or other, depending on which side of street one walks on [76]
Halifax Theatre has production of Hamlet, return of Othello "(by particular desire)" and Macbeth in rehearsal "with all the original Music" [77]
"I like a Man of Solid Sense,/I like a jest without offence,/I like a bottle and a friend,/I like to reach a journey's end" [78]
"The sun is set--and ev'ning steals/Unconscious o'er the distant hill,/Twilight with closer shades conceals/The failing landscape--fainter still." [79]
"[Lack of attention to agriculture] is severely felt in this Province[, leaving us] exposed to the impositions of the country that supplies us" [80]
Correspondent in London says House of Commons passed free port bill, making naval stores, grain, flour, cattle etc. free to import and export [81]
Saint John welcomes Army general who in London aided free port bill and investigation of Customs "oppression" in N.B. coasting trade [82]
Provincial [Smallpox] Vaccine Institution will be run at Saint John and "Vaccinating Surgeon" will prepare "charges of Vaccine Lymph" to distribute [83]
"While there are upwards of an hundred and fifty crimes punishable with death, the villain" who commits seduction might only pay damages [84]
No religious leader (including teacher) of Church of England, Church of Scotland or any other faith can be elected to or sit in Assembly [85]
"[His memory is] so dear to so many of the most respectable part of this community" - in Boston, Edward Winslow's grandson meets extended family [86]
Newfoundland fishery can't flourish because few living there can't catch enough to supply English shippers (and their crews can't either) [87]
Added to governor's £300 reward, St. John's magistrates, for "Merchants and principal Inhabitants," offer £1,000 for information on English common law|arsonist [88]
Spotlighting Boston's gift to St. John's fire victims aims "to encourage a spirit of benevolent enterprize as a substitute for military ambition" [89]
Methodist missionary wants all missionaries to be as frugal as he has been, if they can live on "pea soup [and] salt Pork and drink water" [90]
"The present prevalent malady" - Long description of symptoms of typhus [91]
English, Irish and Scottish settlers "and a few from Germany" and 6 or 700 "original" Acadians "raise (potatoes) in great quantities" [92]
Eyewitness account of trial of two North West Company employees for murder of Hudson's Bay Company employee in Red River Colony [93]
North West Company agent says trade goods voyage to Athabasca is undermanned just when advantage should be taken of "down hearted" H.B.C. [94]
Lord Selkirk's version (86 pgs.) of events in his conflict with North West Company [95]
"The abolition of this detestable traffic [in enslaved people] has been decreed by nearly all the nations of Europe" [96]
Pacific coast First Nations lack "the sense of honor and hospitality [and] the perseverance alike in good and evil" of eastern peoples [97]
Davis Strait Inuk and his kayak are picked up at sea and taken to England, where he amazes crowds with his kayak roll [98]
Of charts of northeast North America "made by Arrowsmith from 1739 to 1811, no two[...]are alike; large islands are in some" and not in others [99]
Map: North and South America, showing British claims including on Pacific coast and Baffin Bay [100]
Analysis of climate indicators and commentary from several centuries gives evidence of warmer summers in England before 15th century [101]
