1806 in Canada
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Events from the year 1806 in Canada.
Incumbents
=Federal government=
=Governors=
Events
- Minor trouble arises after 1806 when a governor attempts to anglicize Lower Canada, but he is able to quell dissent if not to achieve his goal.
- Russian-American Company Company collects otter pelts from Alaska to Spanish California.
- Mungo Park killed by natives on Niger River in Africa.
- On return trip John Colter is released from the Lewis and Clark Expedition to join Forrest Hancock and Joseph Dickson (Dixon) to trap the Yellowstone River.
- Le Canadien, a Quebec nationalist newspaper, is founded.
Births
- April 12 – Peter Rindisbacher, painter (d.1834)
- May 6 – Charles Dewey Day, lawyer, judge and politician (d.1884)
- August 12 – George Ryan, politician (d.1876)
- November 2 – Henry Kellett, officer in the Royal Navy, oceanographer, Arctic explorer (d.1875)
- December 9 – Jean-Olivier Chénier, physician and Patriote (d.1837)
Deaths
- May 31: Louis Dunière, politician (b. 1723)
- July: Robert Gray, merchant sea-captain and explorer (b.1755)
- October 26: John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (b.1752)
- December 31: Deborah Cottnam, schoolmistress and poet (b. c.1725–1728)
Historical documents
For "inhabitants on both sides," U.S. trade with British North America should be free, but U.S. will dominate carrying trade[https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-11-02-0545 James Madison to James Monroe and William Pinkney] (May 17, 1806), U.S. National Archives. (See also [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/12/items/winslowpapersad100raymuoft/winslowpapersad100raymuoft.pdf New Brunswick lieutenant governor](frame 563) has "always thought that our open communication with New York was an injury to us") Accessed 8 August 2024
U.S. Senate wants return of trade goods that British confiscated as well as "arrangement" over impressment of U.S. sailors"Quebec, March 13, 1806; The following resolution[....]," The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4268873 March 13, 1806, Cahier 1] pg. 4, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 31 July 2024
Earl of Selkirk argues settlement of Highland emigrants in British North America (not in U.S.A.) is good for colonists and coloniesThomas Douglas, [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.49523/180 "XI. Importance of the emigrants to our colonies(....)"] and [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.49523/202 "XII. Measures adopted in pursuance of these views(....)"] Observations on the[...]Highlands of Scotland, with a View [to] Emigration (Second Edition; 1806), pgs. 164–232 (Images 180–251) (See also [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.20887 comments] on Selkirk's book) Accessed 25 July 2024
Salem newspaper names Canada-U.S.A. road links as communications that will "accelerate the settlements in these countries""The Subject of the Quebec turnpike[....]," The National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser (September 17, 1806), [https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045242/1806-09-17/ed-1/?sp=3 pg. 3] Library of Congress. (See also [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660612 notice] (pgs. 310–11) of turnpike through New York State to Montreal access road) Accessed 24 July 2024
"W. Wilberforce" and "G. Sharp" sponsor plan for "a comprehensive system of Improvement" for Indigenous in British North America[https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.91178/4 Proposal for Forming a Society for Promoting the Civilization and Improvement of the North-American Indians, within the British Boundary] Accessed 25 July 2024
Michigan rumours of attack by Indigenous people probably meant to scare off trade rivals, and use big trade gathering as pretext"Indian War," The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660603 July 28, 1806] pg. 236, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 29 July 2024
Reading Declaration of Independence on July 4th "breathes envy, hatred, strife, malice and all uncharitableness" between nations at peace"The american papers[....]," The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660603 July 28, 1806] pg. 239 (centre column), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 29 July 2024
=Lower Canada=
"This great cause of humanity" - British physician John Ring details extent of cowpox vaccination against smallpox in Lower CanadaJohn Ring, [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5671304/?page=1 "To the Editors(....)] Medical and Physical Journal (April 1806), pgs. 311-22, U.S. National Library of Medicine. Accessed 12 August 2024
In Quebec City, business has "been laid aside[...]to give room for demonstrations of joy for the Victory [at Trafalgar]""Quebec, January 9, 1806," The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4268855 January 9, 1806, Cahier 1] pg. 2, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. (See also [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4268857 description] of one victory ball held in Quebec) Accessed 31 July 2024
Part of Quebec convoy to Britain burned by French; 2 troop transports escape, but 6 merchantmen "left pursued by the enemy""Quebec, October 30, 1806; We are sorry to announce[....]," The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4268937 October 30, 1806, Cahier 1] pg. 4, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. (See also [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4268941 further details] (pg. 3) of "Quebec fleet") Accessed 1 August 2024
Tips on growing corn, "an article of great importance to the cultivators of this Province" because so much of it has to be imported"To the Editor of the Quebec Mercury" (July 24, 1806), The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660604 August 4, 1806] pg. 242, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 29 July 2024
Why House of Assembly replaced straight land tax with proportional tax based on varying agricultural value of land[https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_00938_15/132 "Memorial containing the motives(....)"] (March 18, 1806), Journals of the House of Assembly, Lower-Canada[...]1806, pgs. 134–42, l'Assemblée nationale du Québec, Bibliothèque, Québec. Accessed 26 July 2024
Assembly has Montreal merchant dinner toastmaster and Montreal Gazette editor who published toasts arrested for libelling House[https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_00938_15/110 "The House, according to order(....)"] (March 15, 1806), Journals of the House of Assembly, Lower-Canada[...]1806, pgs. 112–20, l'Assemblée nationale du Québec, Bibliothèque, Québec. (See also [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660582 editorial comment] ("The Resolve of the House[....]," The Quebec Mercury, pg. 79) that libel claim could be "unpleasant" for House, and also editorial comment just following on "tyrant's" dislike of newspapers) Accessed 26 July 2024
House of Assembly orders Quebec Mercury editor's arrest by sergeant-at-arms for publishing account of House proceedings[https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_00938_15/86 "Ordered, That Thomas Cary(....)"] (March 11, 1806), Journals of the House of Assembly, Lower-Canada[...]1806, pg. 88, l'Assemblée nationale du Québec, Bibliothèque, Québec. (See also editor's apology to House and release from custody, pgs. 92, 94, and [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660582 Assembly proceedings published] (The Quebec Mercury, pg. 78), and also [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660583 comment] on editor's arrest (pg. [81])) Accessed 26 July 2024
British ambassador to U.S.A. relates frustrating case of North West Company goods seized by Michilimackinac customs office[https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-12-02-0273 William Hull to James Madison] (July 31, 1806), U.S. National Archives. (See also [https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-12-02-0398 Hull's comment] that "the agitation respecting the Slaves i[n] Upper Canada has subsided") Accessed 8 August 2024
John Quincy Adams at gathering with Canadians "Mr. Shaw" and "Mr. M'Gillivray" (possibly Angus Shaw and William McGillivray)[https://www.primarysourcecoop.org/publications/jqa/document/jqadiaries-v27-1806-01-p198--entry18 "18 January 1806"] John Quincy Adams Digital Diary, Massachusetts Historical Society. Accessed 9 August 2024
Bridges and roads planned: Quebec City to Connecticut River; Trois-Rivières to Hereford; and through Hatley to Richelieu River"Executive Council Office" (October 6, 1806), The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4268931 October 9, 1806, Cahier 1] pg. 1, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 1 August 2024
£1,000 for removing "impediments" in Lachine Rapids is to be matched for further work there and toward Lake St. Francis[https://bnald.lib.unb.ca/legislation/act-applying-further-sum-one-thousand-pounds-out-any-unappropriated-monies-hands-his An Act for applying a further sum of one thousand Pounds(...)towards the improvement of the inland navigation of this Province, between Montreal and Lake St. Francis] (April 19, 1806), British North American Legislative Database, 1758-1867. (See also [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_00938_15/36 details of clearing work] pgs. 38–44) Accessed 24 July 2024
"A Man left a Widower with a Family of Eight Small Children, for all of whom he [cannot] provide, [will place] out some of them[....]""To Charitable Persons" (September 6, 1806), The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4268923 September 11, 1806, Cahier 1] pg. 2, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 1 August 2024
Woman with minor son, "sole surviving issue of her mariage," wants "all persons indebted to his Sucession to pay immediately""The Subscriber in her own name[....]" (September 24, 1806), The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4268929 October 2, 1806, Cahier 1] pg. 4, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 1 August 2024
Counterfeiters of U.S. bank notes in Montreal arrested and their paper supplier offered immunity if he turns King's evidenceLetter from Montreal (September 20, 1806), New Hampshire Gazette (October 28, 1806), [https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83025588/1806-10-28/ed-1/?sp=2 pg. 2] (See also [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660612 accounts] (pg. 311) of further arrests) Accessed 24 July 2024
Protestant missionary calls Catholics "very kind to strangers [but] involved in the thick darkness of superstition and ignorance"Letter from Quebec City mission (January 11, 1806), [https://collections.library.utoronto.ca/view/broadsides:CAP00015 Account of Foreign Missions Undertaken and Supported by Churches in Edinburgh and Other Places] (June 1, 1806), pg. 30 (image 34), University of Toronto Library. Accessed 25 July 2024
Newspaper Le Canadien launched with motto "Notre foi, notre langue, nos institutions (our faith, our language, our institutions)"Quoted in Claude Bélanger, [http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/events/pillars.htm "The Three Pillars of Survival"] (2000), L’Encyclopédie de l’histoire du Québec / The Quebec History Encyclopedia, Marianopolis College. (See also [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3453255 Prospectus] (in French) for this newspaper, and unfriendly [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660620 commentary] (pg. 366) in Quebec Mercury (Note: several letters in subsequent issues of Mercury echo this hostility); and see [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4268945 note] in Gazette (pg. 3) explaining why it will avoid "any discussions [that excite] national prejudices") Accessed 26 July 2024
Dr. Blanchet to begin series of lectures on chemistry (gasses etc.) and geography ("Mountains, Mines, Petrifications, Lakes" etc.)"Chemical Lectures by F. Blanchet[....]" (November 22[sic], 1806), The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4268943 November 20, 1806, Cahier 1] pg. 3, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 2 August 2024
Note on destroyed Trois-Rivières Ursuline convent praises nuns running hospitals and educating "the female part of the society""Quebec, October 9, 1806; It is with much concern[....]," The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4268931 October 9, 1806, Cahier 1] pg. 3, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. (See also [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4268935 "Beneficent Subscription"] (pg. 5) to raise funds for nuns) Accessed 1 August 2024
"Just arrived[...]Madeira wine, Spanish wine[...], Cogniac Brandy, Holland's Geneva,[...]Martinique crème Cordials [etc.]""For Sale by the Subscriber on His Wharf" (June 5, 1806), The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4268902 June 26, 1806, Cahier 2] pg. 3, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 1 August 2024
Deputy Commissary General wants proposals to supply "[3,000] gallons of proof West India rum""Wanted for His Majesty's Service" (July 31, 1806), The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4268911 July 31, 1806, Cahier 1] pg. 3, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 1 August 2024
Ad notes "life of drudgery and anxiety led by the sons and daughters of Thespis" suffering "fickle fortune's severest frowns""We venture to recommend Mrs. Ormsby[....]," The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660590 May 5, 1806] pg. 143 (left column), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 29 July 2024
Touring artist informs ladies and gentlemen of his portrait painting (miniature to "as large as life"), paper profiles, art lessons etc."Painting" (October 8, 1806), The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4268932 October 9, 1806, Cahier 2] pg. 5, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 1 August 2024
Painting: view of Quebec City in distance from downriver near north bankJames Peachey, [https://collections.musee-mccord-stewart.ca/en/objects/12820/vue-de-la-ville-et-du-bassin-de-quebec-capitale-du-canada?idx=4# "A view of the City & Basin of Quebec, the Capital of Canada, taken near the Falls of Montmorency in 1806"] McCord Stewart Museum. Accessed 26 July 2024
=Upper Canada=
John Norton blames presents and encouragement from Indian Affairs for opposition in Six Nations to promoting "general good"[https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?idnumber=6251794&app=fonandcol Letter of John Norton] (July 24, 1806), Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 7 August 2024
Joseph Brant urges Assembly to make Six Nations reserve "our own property" and to not let government "curtail us of a great part""The Petition of Captain Joseph Brant" (February 14, 1806), [https://digital.library.yorku.ca/_flysystem/fedora/2023-03/recordsofniagara00crui.pdf Records of Niagara; 1805–1811] pgs. 24–5, Niagara Historical Society. (See also [https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?idnumber=6251794&app=fonandcol Brant speech] (PDF frames 13–24) on subject, and John Norton's wish (PDF frame 11) that Brant not be overthrown) Accessed 31 July 2024
Norton sees "increasing propensity" to raise cattle, which "from the great decrease of wild animals[...]becomes very necessary"[https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?idnumber=6252528&app=fonandcol Letter of John Norton] (October 20, 1806), PDF frame 3, Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 7 August 2024
Lawyer shows new lieutenant governor Francis Gore zeal for constitution that "neither innovation can impair nor anarchy deform""Upper Canada" (August 30, 1806), National Intelligencer, and Washington Advertiser [https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_domestic_ver01/data/sn83045242/print/1806100601/0001.pdf (October 6, 1806)] pg. 1, Library of Congress. (See also [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660618 welcome] (pg. 359) from people of Lincoln County) Accessed 12 August 2024
Brant asks to be allowed to give customary welcome with "leading chiefs and principal warriors" of Six Nations to Lt. Gov. Gore[https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c10996/486?r=0&s=3 Letter of Joseph Brant to Lieutenant Governor] (August 24, 1806), Indian Affairs; Lieutenant-Governor's Office - Upper Canada; Correspondence, 1796-1806, pg. 436 (Image 486), Library and Archives Canada. (See also [https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/war-art-in-canada/historical-overview/#a-garrison-state portrait] of Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant)) Accessed 2 August 2024
For £1,000, Mississaugas sell 85,000 acres just west of Toronto to Crown (excepting land and fishing rights on 4 watercourses)[https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1370372152585/1581293792285#ucls14 Head of the Lake Treaty, No. 14] (September 6, 1806), Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada. Accessed 2 August 2024
Efforts to have escaped slaves returned from Michigan Territory are refused by its governor and judiciary as beyond their power[https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-12-02-0273 William Hull to James Madison] (July 31, 1806), U.S. National Archives. (See also [https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-12-02-0398 Hull's comment] that "the agitation respecting the Slaves i[n] Upper Canada has subsided") Accessed 8 August 2024
Moravian missionaries blame "rum-traders [for] several unpleasant things [that] created much disturbance" at Fairfield mission"Extract of a Report, Made by the Brethren's Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Heathen" (November 1806), 1806-1810, vol. 04: Periodical accounts relating to the missions of the Church of the United Brethren established among the heathen, [https://collections.mun.ca/digital/collection/cns_permorv/id/622/rec/4 pg. 93] (frame 112 of 574), Memorial University of Newfoundland. Accessed 7 August 2024
Methodist preacher Nathan Bangs dreads "a Lukewarm spirit[,] only a dead weight to those who would be alive to God"[http://www.yorku.ca/scottm/journals/1806jan1.htm "Wednesday January 1st 1806"] The Journals & Notebook of Nathan Bangs 1805-1806, 1817. Accessed 12 August 2024
Province is to pay £400 for equipment to teach "the principles of Natural Philosophy, Geography, Astronomy and the Mathematics"[https://bnald.lib.unb.ca/legislation/act-procure-certain-apparatus-promotion-science-passed-3d-march-1806 An Act to procure certain Apparatus for the promotion of Science] (March 3, 1806), British North American Legislative Database, 1758-1867. (See also [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660610 "Quebec, September 15, 1806"] notice (pg. 294) that apparatus will perhaps go to John Strachan's academy) Accessed 24 July 2024
Report of duel between lawyers after one is persuaded to challenge other for making critical remarks about him (challenger dies)"From the Albany Gazette," The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660622 December 1, 1806] pg. 382, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 30 July 2024
Fashion and behaviour in Upper Canadian society are criticized by man writing from York
"To the Editor of the Quebec Mercury," The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660604 August 4, 1806] pgs. [241]–2, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 29 July 2024
=Nova Scotia=
Subsidies set for grain grown on newly cleared land, for importing salt (for fisheries) and for exporting fish to British West Indies[https://bnald.lib.unb.ca/legislation/act-encourage-raising-bread-corn-new-lands An Act to encourage the raising Bread Corn on new Lands] and [https://bnald.lib.unb.ca/legislation/act-encourage-fisheries-province-granting-bounty-importation-salt An Act to encourage the Fisheries of this Province, by granting a Bounty on the importation of Salt] and [https://bnald.lib.unb.ca/legislation/act-granting-bounty-dry-cod-and-scale-fish-exported-his-majestys-islands-colonies-and An Act for granting a Bounty on Dry Cod and Scale Fish, exported to his Majesty’s Islands, Colonies, and Plantations in the West-Indies] British North American Legislative Database, 1758-1867. Accessed 24 July 2024
As French fleet attacks Newfoundland, Halifax hosts military force ("probably near 3,000" says writer who got commission then)[https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.17434/28 "III.--Miscellaneous Events, &c."] A Brief History[...]of Nova Scotia, during the Earliest Years of the Present Century (18--?), pg. 22 (Image 28). Accessed 25 July 2024
Wilmot Anglican minister has "a numerous congregation," but few communicants and two-thirds are "discenters"[https://archives.acadiau.ca/node/869 Journal of Rev. John Wiswall] note on letter received June 11, 1806, frame 140, Acadia University. Accessed 26 July 2024
"[Everyone] is at liberty to pay [for] the support of religion [and] I fear learning and religion + morality will be rare plants in N Scotia"[https://archives.acadiau.ca/node/869 Journal of Rev. John Wiswall] note on letter received June 11, 1806, frame 140, Acadia University. Accessed 26 July 2024
=New Brunswick=
Ward Chipman tells Edward Winslow he "or any other particular friend" can contribute anonymous opinion pieces for newspaper"Ward Chipman to Edward Winslow" (July 29, 1806), [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/12/items/winslowpapersad100raymuoft/winslowpapersad100raymuoft.pdf Winslow Papers; A. D. 1776–1826] (1901), pg. 556 (frame 570). Accessed 9 August 2024
"Free Negro" of Norton Parish requests 200-acre tract near Kennebecasis River for himself, wife and child (granted)[https://preserve.lib.unb.ca/wayback/20141206021907/http://atlanticportal.hil.unb.ca/acva/blackloyalists/en/petitions/browse/view.php?id=Hodges_Fortune_1806_01&mode=dpl "Petition of John Hodges, 3 July 1806, Norton Parish"] University of New Brunswick Libraries. Accessed 25 July 2024
=Hudson's Bay Company=
Moose Factory chief John Thomas says "Canadians" have left Eastmain and will do same at Moose if HBC will drop some posts"15 [September 1806]," [https://pam.minisisinc.com/DIGITALOBJECTS/Access/HBCA%20Microfilm/1M90/B135-A-94.pdf Moose - Post Journal; 1806-1807] frames 5–6. (See also in letter (frame 9) Thomas says progress of trade influenced by Indigenous people's health and habit of not paying their debts) Accessed 12 August 2024
Moose asks Fort Albany's help with 130 day food supply; wants to send some men to Albany because few rabbits and fish caught"John Hodgson Esqr[....]" (December 15, 1806), [https://pam.minisisinc.com/DIGITALOBJECTS/Access/HBCA%20Microfilm/1M90/B135-A-94.pdf Moose - Post Journal; 1806-1807] frame 18. Accessed 12 August 2024
Daily thaw bad at Churchill because firewood and "Partridge ground" are on river islands, and snow doubles weight of snowshoes
"1806; Nov'r 29th," [https://pam.minisisinc.com/DIGITALOBJECTS/Access/HBCA%20Microfilm/1M34/B42-A-132.pdf Fort Churchill - Post Journal; 1806-1807] frame 10. Accessed 13 August 2024
Moose Factory cows go through ice when orders ignored; after 3 hours in water, 1 cow dies and another is warmed up back at post"8 [December 1806]," [https://pam.minisisinc.com/DIGITALOBJECTS/Access/HBCA%20Microfilm/1M90/B135-A-94.pdf Moose - Post Journal; 1806-1807] frame 17. Accessed 12 August 2024
=Western interior=
Alexander Mackenzie tells Roderick Mackenzie he must write Northwest history, but will possibly make more enemies than friends[https://digital.scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/solr?query=ID%3A24418&start=0&rows=10&mode=view&pos=0&page=61 Letter of Alexander Mackenzie to Roderick Mackenzie] (November 7, 1806), Letters of Sir Alexander MacKenzie, Images 62–3, University of Saskatchewan Libraries. Accessed 2 August 2024
Ojibwe from Lake Vermilion recalls when settlers were no problem, but times have changed and begs lake waters not be poisonedJohn McLoughlin, The Indians from Fort William to Lake of the Woods (ca. 1806), [https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/nwc/data/Mftp/0023/5_tei2web/Pg007.html pg. 5] (Page #7 of 20), McGill University. Accessed 8 August 2024
Traders and Indigenous people going from Pine River to Cross Lake nearly starve "owing to the Countrie being all burnt"[https://digital.scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/solr?query=DocumentType%3A%22Archival%22%7C1806&start=0&rows=10&mode=view&pos=0&page=31 "Wednesday 12 February 1806"] Journal for 1805 & 6; Cross Lake, Image 31, University of Saskatchewan Libraries. (See more on starvation on nearby pages) Accessed 6 August 2024
Summary of travels of Lewis and Clark Expedition"American Voyage of Discovery across the Continent[....]" (from National Intelligencer, 1806), The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4268945 November 27, 1806, Cahier 1] pg. 4, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 2 August 2024
Meriwether Lewis warns of "formidable" North West Company expanding from posts on Souris River into Missouri River region[https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-4310 Letter of Meriwether Lewis to Thomas Jefferson] (September 23, 1806), U.S. National Archives. Accessed 8 August 2024
"Saakies" and Potawatomi seek help from Upper Canada against encroachment on their lands from U.S.A. (request deferred)[https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c10996/460?r=0&s=3 "Information respecting the hostile intention of sundry Indian Nations towards the Government of the United States"] (July 30, 1806), Indian Affairs; Lieutenant-Governor's Office - Upper Canada; Correspondence, 1796-1806, pgs. 414–20 (Images 460–6), Library and Archives Canada. (See also [https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_domestic_ver01/data/sn83045242/print/1806101301/0003.pdf report] (column 2, bottom) that British traders "influenced" Sauk to attack Zebulon Pike's party) Accessed 2 August 2024
=Elsewhere=
Seal nets catch "above 130" seals, keeping more Labrador Inuit around Okak "than have been present for these many years"Letter from Okkak (August 18, 1806), 1806-1810, vol. 04: Periodical accounts relating to the missions of the Church of the United Brethren established among the heathen, [https://collections.mun.ca/digital/collection/cns_permorv/id/604/rec/4 pg. 78] (frame 94 of 574), Memorial University of Newfoundland. Accessed 6 August 2024
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