1810 in Canada

• Monarch: George III{{cite web |date=31 December 2015 |title=George III |url=https://www.royal.uk/george-iii-r-1760-1820 |access-date=18 April 2016 |website=Official website of the British monarchy |publisher=Royal Household}}

• Parliament of Lower Canada: 6th (January 29 – March 1) then 7th (starting December 12)
• Parliament of Upper Canada: 5th

• Governor of the Canadas: Robert Milnes
• Governor of New Brunswick: Thomas Carleton
• Governor of Nova Scotia: John Wentworth
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet
• Governor of Prince Edward Island: Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres

• January – A Governor declares that, in case of hostilities, a force of regulars, adequate for the defence of Canada, will cooperate with the Militia.
• March – Le Canadien of Quebec is suppressed, for "seditious utterances." Soldiers, led by a magistrate, seize the plant and apprehend the printer. Warrants to arrest Bedard, Taschereau, Papineau, Viger and others are issued. The Governor asks: "During the fifty years you have been under British rule, has one act of oppression, one instance of arbitrary imprisonment, of violation of property, or of the rights of conscience ever occurred?"
• August : Construction of Chemin Craig.
• November 26 – Brewer and businessman John Molson asks the colonial government for the exclusive right to construct and navigate steam-boats, on the Saint Lawrence River, for 15 years.
• In the United States, War Hawks advocate war with Britain, which has been harassing American shipping.
• David Thompson builds trade houses on Pend Oreille Lake and Flathead River.
• York magistrate Alexander Wood is embroiled in a gay sex scandal.
• Loyalist colonel Edward Jessup lays out a townsite in Upper Canada's Augusta Township, which would grow into Prescott, Ontario.{{cite web |url=https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=19826&pid=0 |website=Canadian Register of Historic Places |title=Prescott Barracks |publisher=Parks Canada |access-date=November 16, 2022}}

• September 3 – Paul Kane, artist (d.1871)
• September 20 – George Coles, Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1875)
• September 29 – Hugh Allan, businessman (d.1882)
• December 14 – Jean-Baptiste Thibault, missionary noted for his role in negotiating on behalf of the Canadian Government during the Red River Rebellion of 1869–1870. (d.1879)

• Aldis Bernard, mayor of Montreal (d.1876)
• Charles Connell, politician (d.1873)
• George Moffat, Sr., businessman and politician (d.1878)

• April 9 – Alessandro Malaspina, explorer (b.1754)
• September 12 – Joseph Frobisher, fur trader, merchant (b. 1740)

If peace comes, Quebec newspaper will cover greater variety of news, but is now "in a manner, exclusively fettered to war and politics""Our Subscribers[....]," The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660816 January 1, 1810] pg. 2, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 6 November 2024

Madison administration is encouraging Congressional "resolutions breathing war and tending to precipitate us into immediate hostilities""From the Albany Gazette, Dec. 18," The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660818 January 15, 1810] pg. 18 (first column), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. (See also [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269244 January 27 report from Washington] (pg. 2, 1st column) that war is not advocated by anyone in House) Accessed 6 November 2024

Massachusetts Legislature committee says, with territory "already too extensive," U.S. should not take Canada, "this province of Frenchmen""Massachusetts Legislature; Report[....]" (undated), The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269247 March 8, 1810] pg. 1, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 14 November 2024

Boston editorial says, "We cannot credit the monstrous idea that the administration have any intention of again recommending the embargo system""American Intelligence; Boston, June 21; The Prospect before Us," The Royal Gazette, and Newfoundland Advertiser] [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YFjsv_pBGBYC&dat=18100802&printsec=frontpage (August 2, 1810)] pg. 2 of 2 (righthand page, 1st column). Accessed 25 October 2024

George Rose, of Commons committee on trade, proposes resolution to raise duty on foreign timber to favour colonial trade (it passes)"From English Papers; House of Commons, May 22," The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269296 September 20, 1810] pg. 2, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 18 November 2024

"A war with the Indians of the Wabash country is considered as inevitable" as Tecumseh resolutely opposes settler expansion"Yesterday's Burlington Mail; Boston, October 11; A war with the Indians[....]," The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269304 October 25, 1810] pg. 3, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 18 November 2024

Stereotypes of Indigenous people: crying and begging "Northern Indians," reserved Nootka Sound inhabitants and lofty Five NationsJ. Goldsmith, A View of the Character, Manners, and Customs of the North-Americans[....] (1810), pgs. [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.90645/8 2], [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.90645/20 11] and [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.90645/22 13] Accessed 29 October 2024

Anglican missionary society wants to know temper, prudence, learning, "sober and pious conversation," zeal, diligence etc. of applicants"An Abstract of the Proceedings of the Society," A Sermon Preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts[....] (1810), [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=aeu.ark:/13960/t21c35x55&seq=53 pg. 48] Accessed 28 November 2024

"His Majesty is said to have determined to undergo the operation of couching [to restore] him to the blessings of sight""April 27," The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269267 May 31, 1810] pg. 2 (2nd column bottom), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 15 November 2024

John Vincent dies, "an Indian, aged 95, [who] in 1775 espoused the American cause" though his tribe were "seduced to the British interest""Yesterday's Burlington Mail; Died at Parkerstown[....]," The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269288 August 16, 1810] pg. 2 (2nd column), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 16 November 2024

Translation of list in Le Canadien of members in Assembly elected after dissolution, showing how many more will behave "worse than ever!""Mr. Cary; The prevailing spirit of the times," The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660816 January 1, 1810] pgs. 2–3, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. (See also [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269283 notice of dismissal] (pg. 2, 2nd column, "The Quebec Gazette") of Major Jean-Baptiste Durocher from militia) Accessed 6 November 2024

Assembly's address to Throne includes statement that L.C. prosperity will allow it to pay province's government expenditure"Quebec, March 1; House of Assembly; To the King's most excellent Majesty," The Royal Gazette, and Newfoundland Advertiser [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YFjsv_pBGBYC&dat=18100607&printsec=frontpage (June 7, 1810)] pg. 1 (righthand page, bottom of 4th column). (See also Gov. Gen. Craig's [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_00938_19/215 notice to Assembly] that it is not authorized to pay for government expenditure without Council concurrence and royal approval) Accessed 5 November 2024

Assembly passes bill disqualifying judges from sitting in Assembly and sends it to Legislative Council"Resolved, that [the House do pass] an Act for declaring Judges to be disabled, and disqualifying them from being elected or from sitting and voting in the House of Assembly" (February 9, 1810), Journal of the House of Assembly, Lower-Canada (1810), [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_00938_19/103 pgs. 104, 106] (See also Gov. Gen. Craig's February 2 speech in which he indicates he would [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269240 assent to such legislation] and his February 26 [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_00938_19/245 speech] dissolving Assembly to disallow bill, and Quebec Mercury's [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660827 explanation] of his speech (pgs. 78–9); also see Assembly's [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_00938_20/90 passage] of reintroduced bill in December session, and Council's [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_00938_20/104 passage] of it) Accessed 4 November 2024

Council's warrants lead to arrest of P.-S. Bédard, J.-T. Taschereau and Le Canadien printer, and seizure of newspaper's presses"Quebec, March 26, 1810; On the 17th instant[....]," The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660831 March 26, 1810] pg. 102 (bottom of right column), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. (See also [https://ia801503.us.archive.org/22/items/McGillLibrary-rbsc_lc_statistical-account-canada_lande00277-v2-16589/rbsc_lc_statistical-account-canada_lande00277-v2.pdf letter] (frame 75) saying they were "in a Treasonable correspondence with the French Ambassador at Washington") Accessed 6 November 2024

In proclamation, Gov. Gen. Craig calls on magistrates, militia captains and others to find authors of "wicked, seditious and traitorous writings""By His Excellency[....]" (March 21, 1810), The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660831 March 26, 1810] pgs. 98–9, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. (See also April 9 [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269255 note] (pg. 2, column 3) that curates in parishes "have been trying each to out-do the other" in urging loyalty to King, and [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269253 note] on Bishop of Quebec's sermon calling for "love and submission which we all owe to the Civil Government of the Province") Accessed 6 November 2024

Several U.S. citizens living in L.C. who want agent appointed to protect them and their trade recommend Mordecai Manuel Noah[https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-02-02-0624 letter] to James Madison from Abner Cushing and others, August 25, 1810, U.S. National Archives. Accessed 22 November 2024

Of 3 soldiers convicted of desertion, two are shot and one gets 450 of 500 lashes and is kept in hospital until he can receive remainder"The Quebec Gazette; Quebec; Thursday, September 20, 1810; Yesterday[....]," The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269296 September 20, 1810] pg. 2, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 18 November 2024

"The public will do well to endeavour to arrest this new species of our infant manufactures" - Quebec City counterfeiters make dollar coins"Counterfeit Dollars," The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269262 May 10, 1810] pg. 2, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 15 November 2024

"Provisions [are] very scarce" and price of "articles of life" has greatly increased, probably from increase in trade and thus population"George Heriot to Judge Edward Winslow" (June 13, 1810), [https://ia601305.us.archive.org/12/items/winslowpapersad100raymuoft/winslowpapersad100raymuoft.pdf Winslow Papers; A. D. 1776–1826] (1901), pg. 650 (frame 668). Accessed 22 November 2024

Pointe-Lévy has so many taverns that for income some owners convince produce sellers headed for market to sell to them at low prices"Communication," The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269233 January 4, 1810] pg. 2, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 12 November 2024

Quebec City inhabitants seek relief from Assembly from high prices charged by monopoly dealing in "every kind of produce""A Petition of divers inhabitants of the City and Suburbs of Quebec[....]" (February 16, 1810), Journal of the House of Assembly, Lower-Canada (1810), [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_00938_19/163 pg. 164] (See also [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269244 opinion] (pg. 2, 3rd column bottom) that it's "a dangerous experiment to attempt to restrain the natural propensity of individuals to better their condition") Accessed 4 November 2024

Wanted for British forces in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick etc.: 2,085 barrels of pork "warranted to keep good and sound for Twelve Months""Deputy Commissary General's Office," The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269235 January 18, 1810] pg. 1, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 12 November 2024

Jailed debtors petition Assembly to be relieved of inhumane conditions and indefinite terms of imprisonment"A Petition of sundry Debtors[....]" Journal of the House of Assembly, Lower-Canada (1810), [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_00938_20/140 pg. 140] Accessed 5 November 2024

Death notice of Joseph Frobisher, fur trader and Northwest Company founder, seigneur, and pillar of Montreal society"Died," The Quebec Gazette (via Montreal Gazette), [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269296 September 20, 1810] pg. 3 (1st column), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 18 November 2024

Letter to editor contains summary of Northwest Company staff numbers from Alexander Mackenzie's fur trade history"In the general History of the fur trade[....]" The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660838 May 14, 1810] pg. 154 (middle column top), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. (See also following letter (from same writer) which has list of L.C. parishes supplying staff members (right column bottom)) Accessed 7 November 2024

With only 12 parishes making use of law to create schools, writer criticizes prejudice against educating "lower classes," especially Canadians[https://ia601301.us.archive.org/20/items/cihm_42540/cihm_42540.pdf A Letter(...)to the Roman Catholic Clergy and the Seigniors of the Province of Lower Canada, Recommending the Establishment of Schools] (1810), pgs. 4–5. Accessed 31 October 2024

Editorial says "Canadian education" called for is merely "a pressure for keeping down thought [and] charming reason asleep""A Canadian education! What is it?" The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660817 January 8, 1810] pg. 15 (first column), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 6 November 2024

French is "an essential Part of a liberal Education," and is more easily learned from dialogues that avoid perplexing idiomatic expressionsJohn Perrin, "Preface," The Elements of French Conversation, with New, Familiar, and Easy Dialogues (Tenth Edition; Montreal, 1810), [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.39574/8 Image 8] Accessed 29 October 2024

"Educated" Canadians have superior French "if we except the Anglicisms which have been unavoidably interwoven with the language since the conquest""[...]excepted from his general charge[....]" The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660844 June 18, 1810] pg. 197 (third column top), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 7 November 2024

Examinations at Little Seminary of Quebec will be followed by "Plaidoyer" by third class students and another by students in rhetoric"Literary Exercises" (August 8, 1810), The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269286 August 9, 1810] pg. 3, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 16 November 2024

Quebec City school owner teaches boys and girls "in the preliminary paths of science," including geography, natural philosophy and astronomy"To the Public" (June 21, 1810), The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269273 June 21, 1810] pg. 2 (3rd column middle), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 15 November 2024

Though only "fanciful productions of human vanity [can] suppose man capable of self-government," none are slaves except Canadian "peasants"An Enquiry into the Evils of General Suffrage and Frequent Elections in Lower Canada (1810), [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.57284/12 pg. 7] (Image 12). Accessed 28 October 2024

Soldiers being ordered to south side of St. Lawrence River to open road to Boston "must be a subject of exultation to[...]merchant and consumer""We learn with the utmost satisfaction[....]," The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660850 July 30, 1810] pg. 247, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. (See also [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660864 notice] (pg. 358) of completion of road, which will lead to "general improvement [of province] with something of a British pace, unshackled by the circumscribed ideas of those who never soar beyond self," and also [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269305 description] (pgs. 2–3) of road and its benefit to Quebec City) Accessed 8 November 2024

Large reward is offered by timber business firm for information on thefts by boat of masts and timbers from its riverside property"Four Hundred Dollars Reward" (July 16, 1810), The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660849 July 23, 1810] pg. 233, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. (See also opinion about [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269286 "The offences which have been recently committed"] (pg. 2, 3rd column) that include "extensive depredations" along river from Quebec City to Montreal) Accessed 8 November 2024

Quebec City firm has received from England new type of threshing machine that allows one man and horse to do work of dozen men"To Farmers, & Others" (October 29, 1810), The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660852 October 29, 1810] pg. 350, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 11 November 2024

"To make it truly valuable," commerce must, before exporting grain, relieve those short of bread because of high cost of living"Mr. Editor" (September 9, 1810), The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660875 September 17, 1810] pg. 301, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 8 November 2024

Montreal trade has increased greatly in 2 years, with 40+ barks and brigs, 20 schooners and sloops and several Lake Ontario boats in port"Montreal, June 18," The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269273 May 21, 1810] pg. 2 (2nd column middle), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. (See also [https://collections.musee-mccord-stewart.ca/en/objects/42391/montreal-1810?idx=4 painting] of Montreal) Accessed 15 November 2024

Quebec City jurors hear that L.C.'s growing population and prosperity and especially Q.C. port's increased trade are leading to more crime"Police; The following Charge[....]" (April 20, 1810), The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269264 May 17, 1810] pg. 2, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 15 November 2024

Editorial says "some [disorder] unavoidably [goes with] an increased population, an enlarged trade, and[...]intercourse with uncivilized characters""Quebec, August 13, 1810; We shall, we hope[....]," The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660852 August 13, 1810] pg. 262, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. (See also opinion about [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269286 "The offences which have been recently committed"] (pg. 2, 3rd column) that longs for time when inhabitants could go anywhere without fear of danger) Accessed 8 November 2024

Wreck of ship sailing from Quebec City has message in bottle saying 8 crew members survived 8 days on 1 rat before rescue by French privateer"Montreal, March 12; Ship Argo[....]," The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269248 March 15, 1810] pg. 2, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 14 November 2024

Berthier woman, "for the support of her family," gets court-ordered separation of estate from husband to carry on boarder/traveller house"Catherine Ferland[....]" (September 10, 1810), The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269299 October 4, 1810] pg. 1 (2nd column middle), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 18 November 2024

One dead after several cariole crashes, including one from which driver is thrown and runaway horse and empty cariole break person's arm"Quebec, December 17, 1810; On Tuesday, Mrs. Taylor[....]," The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660870 December 17, 1810] pg. 407 (centre column), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 11 November 2024

Praise in Montreal theatre world for "Mr. [John] Bernard[...]who has given an entire new coloring to what has been termed comic acting""The Drama," The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660852 August 13, 1810] pg. 264, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. (See also ad (just below) for Bernard's series of comic lectures in Quebec City, and his [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660857 intention] (pg. 298) "to fit up a very handsome temporary theatre for next Spring and Summer") Accessed 8 November 2024

Journeymen shoemakers wanted; wages: 18s for "top't and back strap't" boots, 12s for Hessian and plain boots, 5s for "Gloshoes""Wanted" (May 10, 1810), The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269262 May 17, 1810] pg. 1 (3rd column), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. (See also (pg. 3, 1st column) call for masons to pave street with pebbles on "Horse Road" and Cape Rouge squared stone on footpath) Accessed 15 November 2024

"For sale, Macaroni and Vermicelli, most excellent for soupe[....]""For Sale[....]" The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660832 April 2, 1810] pg. 111 (first column bottom), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 7 November 2024

Organizers of new bank in Kingston wish to sell 5,000 $50-shares, totaling $250,000, before seeking incorporation from Parliament"A Number of the Inhabitants of the town of Kingston having associated for the purpose of establishing a Bank[....]" (December 1810), [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.63174/5 Image 5]. (See also [https://news.ourontario.ca/96814/page/3?n= letters to the editor] in Kingston Gazette) Accessed 28 October 2024

Suggested ways farming could be improved, such as dropping "prejudices" against hemp and making and preserving butter and cheese better"Agricultural," Kingston Gazette (December 4, 1810), [https://news.ourontario.ca/96813/page/2?n= pg. 2] Kingston Frontenac Public Library. Accessed 18 November 2024

Road building in Lower Canada is example for U.C., where parts of main road should be improved into "a complete turnpike road""Kingston: Tuesday, November 27, 1810; Communications," Kingston Gazette (November 27, 1810), [https://news.ourontario.ca/96812/page/3?n= pg. 3] Kingston Frontenac Public Library. Accessed 18 November 2024

Ogdensburg, N.Y. shipper gives notice that he will take flour, pork, whisky, potash and other goods to that city or Montreal/Quebec City[https://digitalarchive.tpl.ca/objects/275209/notice--the-subscribers-inform-the-public?idx=3 "Notice; The Subscribers inform the Public(....)"] (July 1810), Toronto Public Library. (See also [https://digitalarchive.tpl.ca/objects/275205/tariff-of-commissions-for-the-transaction-of-business?idx=1 "Tariff of Commissions for the Transaction of Business"] at Montreal) Accessed 31 October 2024

Canadian Quakers, at first combined meeting, report that most keep themselves and children "in plainess of speach behavour and apparel""3rd [answer to Queries]," [https://cfha.info/CHYMO-3-1.pdf Canada Half Yearly Meeting 1810–1855] frame 2, Canadian Friends Historical Association. Accessed 22 November 2024

New York newspaper reports most aboard boat carrying salt were swept over Niagara Falls after they foundered in swells from strong winds"Terrible Accident," The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660870 December 17, 1810] pg. 404, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 11 November 2024

Grand jury praised for information of seditious libel against Upper Canada Guardian publisher for words "calculated to mislead [and] alienate""Upper Canada; On Tuesday last[....]," The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269258 April 19, 1810] pg. 2, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. (See also [https://ia801503.us.archive.org/22/items/McGillLibrary-rbsc_lc_statistical-account-canada_lande00277-v2-16589/rbsc_lc_statistical-account-canada_lande00277-v2.pdf excerpts] (pgs. 317–27 (frames 355–65)) of text labelled libelous) Accessed 14 November 2024

John Strachan's profile of King George III is meant to counter slanderous comments prevalent in U.S.A. about him and British constitutionJohn Strachan, "Advertisement," A Discourse on the Character of King George the Third, Addressed to the Inhabitants of British America (1810), [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.20943/8 Image 8] Accessed 29 October 2024

Letter to the editor has suggestions for improving common education, including parents discussing with students what they have learned"Kingston: Tuesday, November 27, 1810; Communications; Common Schools," Kingston Gazette (November 27, 1810), [https://news.ourontario.ca/96812/page/3?n= pg. 3] Kingston Frontenac Public Library. Accessed 18 November 2024

Call in Quebec for donations to support printing "useful books" for poor of U.C., including "children's books and moral and religious Tracts""A Friendly Hint" (August 20, 1810), The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660853 August 20, 1810] pg. 271, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 8 November 2024

"A decoction of the roots of blackberry bushes[...]is a safe, sure and speedy cure for the dysentary—-The [recipe] from the Oneida Indians""Dysentary," The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269293 September 6, 1810] pg. 2 (2nd column bottomish), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 18 November 2024

Wilmot Township has 1,500 settlers, "a vast increase in the space of 27 years," because in 1783 there were "no more than 8 or 10"[https://archives.acadiau.ca/node/869 Journal of Rev. John Wiswall] (November 26, 1810), frame 151, Acadia University. Accessed 1 November 2024

From Boston source: 5,000 troops from Halifax have arrived in Portugal and 7,000 more are coming from England for service in Peninsular War"Boston, Sept. 17," The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269297 September 22, 1810] pg. 4 (2nd column), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. (See also [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269299 note] (pg. 2, 4th column, and repeated on pg. 4) that Britain has 40,000 troops there) Accessed 18 November 2024

Anglican minister says many Rawdon parishoners "do not consider themselves members of the Church" and Baptist preacher has drawn some away"An Abstract of the Proceedings of the Society," A Sermon Preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts[....] (1810), [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=aeu.ark:/13960/t21c35x55&seq=43 pgs. 37–8] Accessed 28 November 2024

N.S. woman is cured of cataracts in New York City; disease "caused by the blotting of Phlegm between the Uveous Coat and the Crystalline Humour"[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3611057&seq=280&start=3 "Wednesday, June 20th (1810)"] The Diary of Simeon Perkins; 1804-1812 (1978), pg. 222. Accessed 1 November 2024

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Death penalty for those even counselling or aiding administration of "any[...]noxious and destructive substance or thing" to terminate pregnancy[https://bnald.lib.unb.ca/legislation/act-making-further-provisions-prevent-destroying-and-murdering-bastard-children-and An Act for making further provisions to prevent the destroying and murdering of Bastard Children, and for the further prevention of the malicious using of means to procure the miscarriage of women] (1810), British North American Legislative Database, 1758-1867. Accessed 23 October 2024

"From recent occurrences," Assembly members are urged to renew militia law and enable government to promptly call it into action[https://archives.gnb.ca/Search/RS24/DocumentViewer.aspx?culture=en-CA&record=1366 Opening address] to House of Assembly (January 29, 1810), Legislative Assembly: Sessional Records (RS24), Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Accessed 22 November 2024

Black men (age 16–50) will form into company of pioneers attached to county militia regiment, but are also subject to draft for active service[https://bnald.lib.unb.ca/legislation/act-better-regulating-militia-province-passed-14th-march-1810 An Act for better regulating the Militia in this Province] (March 14, 1810), section XXXVI, British North American Legislative Database, 1758-1867. Accessed 23 October 2024

"Sea-faring" men can form into companies of "Sea Fencibles" militia and are subject to same time commitment and various penalties as land forces[https://bnald.lib.unb.ca/legislation/act-better-regulating-militia-province-passed-14th-march-1810 An Act for better regulating the Militia in this Province] (March 14, 1810), section XXXVIII, British North American Legislative Database, 1758-1867. (See also section XLIII, which allows impressment of merchant ship crews if port under attack) Accessed 23 October 2024

Certificate that John Baptist Pommeville Jr. is appointed chief of Pokemouche Indigenous people on Acadian Peninsula[https://web.lib.unb.ca/archives/finding/ia/ia_36.html "Indian Affairs; Document #36"] (November 7, 1810), University of New Brunswick Archives. Accessed 21 November 2024

Lewis Barnaby "of the Mirimachi Tribe of Indians" leases out "Barnabys Island" in Southwest Miramichi River for period of 21 years[https://preserve.lib.unb.ca/wayback/20141205152018/http://contestedterrain.lib.unb.ca/petitions/view/Betts_Jared_1821_04_transcription "Petition of Jared Betts, 3 August 1810, Northumberland County. Transcription"] University of New Brunswick Libraries. Accessed 1 November 2024

Edward Winslow's daughter Penelope says he suffered gout for 4 months, then when he tried to walk, sustained more crippling case of it[https://preserve.lib.unb.ca/wayback/20141205163444mp_/http://atlanticportal.hil.unb.ca/acva/loyalistwomen/en/documents/browse/view.php?id=39_35&mode=dpl "Letter from Penelope Winslow to Edward Winslow, 26 March 1810, Kingsclear [residence, N.B.]," pg. 2, University of New Brunswick Libraries. (See also [https://preserve.lib.unb.ca/wayback/20141205165230/http://atlanticportal.hil.unb.ca/acva/loyalistwomen/en/documents/browse/view.php?id=39_37&mode=dpl letter] saying trip that summer was "of great service to his health," and also [https://ia801305.us.archive.org/12/items/winslowpapersad100raymuoft/winslowpapersad100raymuoft.pdf his news] of complete relief caused by l'Eau Medicinale d'Husson) Accessed 1 November 2024

Anyone killing, wounding, selling or buying any Grand Manan moose or moose parts will pay £15 (except Moses Gerrish, who keeps them there)[https://bnald.lib.unb.ca/legislation/act-prevent-destruction-moose-island-grandmanan-passed-14th-march-1810 An Act to prevent the destruction of Moose on the Island of Grandmanan] (March 14, 1810), British North American Legislative Database, 1758-1867. Accessed 23 October 2024

Brief introduction to Newfoundland says it "seems to have been designed by providence for a Fishery""Mr. Cary, Newfoundland[....]," The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660865 November 12, 1810] pg. 363, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 11 November 2024

Lacking roads, some Newfoundlanders haven't "a knowledge of God [and have] acquired a character not many degrees above absolute barbarism""Chapter III; The state of the Island[....]," Remarks upon the Life and Manners of the Rev. John Jones, Formerly Pastor of the Independent Church, St. John's, Newfoundland (1810), [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.90066/22 pg. 13] (Image 22). Accessed 29 October 2024

Gov. Duckworth will reward efforts to "conciliate [Indigenous peoples'] affections and induce them to come among us and live in friendship""A Proclamation" (August 1, 1810), The Royal Gazette, and Newfoundland Advertiser [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YFjsv_pBGBYC&dat=18100802&printsec=frontpage (August 2, 1810)] pg. 2 of 2 (righthand page, 4th column). (See also Gov. Duff's [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YFjsv_pBGBYC&dat=18100823&printsec=frontpage admonition] (pg. 2 of 2, 3rd column) that no longer should anyone treat "the Savages[...]with the greatest inhumanity, and[...]destroy them without the least provocation or remorse," and [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.57316/106 stories] of government goodwill and people's cruelty) Accessed 25 October 2024

"It is a melancholy truth, that out of 26 casualties [in last 12] months, 18 have been occasioned by an inordinate use of spirituous Liquors""It is a melancholy truth[....]," The Royal Gazette, and Newfoundland Advertiser [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YFjsv_pBGBYC&dat=18100927&printsec=frontpage (September 27, 1810)] pg. 2 of 2 (lefthand page, 3rd column). Accessed 25 October 2024

Meeting sets new price for fish, given state of fishery, high price of food and "precarious prospect of our foreign commercial relations""The Royal Gazette; Thursday, August 30, 1810; On Monday[....]," The Royal Gazette, and Newfoundland Advertiser [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YFjsv_pBGBYC&dat=18100830&printsec=frontpage (August 30, 1810)] pg. 2 of 2 (righthand page, 2nd column). (See also [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YFjsv_pBGBYC&dat=18100906&printsec=frontpage comment] (pg. 2 of 2, 3rd column) that many at meeting opposed price fixing, and [https://digitalarchive.tpl.ca/objects/345128/a-tour-through-part-of-the-atlantic-or-recollections-from?idx=4 map] of shipping routes from St. John's) Accessed 25 October 2024

"Society for improving the Condition of the Poor of St. John's [hears that] 56 persons had been relieved the last year""Communication," The Royal Gazette, and Newfoundland Advertiser [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YFjsv_pBGBYC&dat=18100809&printsec=frontpage (August 9, 1810)] pg. 2 of 2 (righthand page, 2nd column). (See also "Wanted For the Use of the Poor" ad (same page, 3rd column bottom) listing bread, flour, butter, tea, sugar, molasses, oatmeal, rice and fish) Accessed 25 October 2024

Announcement and prospectus for new weekly newspaper "to communicate interesting intelligence with the greatest expedition""To the Society of Merchants, and the Public in general" (July 5, 1810), The Royal Gazette, and Newfoundland Advertiser [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YFjsv_pBGBYC&dat=18100705&printsec=frontpage (July 5, 1810)] pg. 2 of 2 (righthand page, 4th column). Accessed 24 October 2024

"Wanted, from 10,000 to 15,000 Seal Skins. Apply to James Melledge & Co.""Wanted" (June 14, 1810), The Royal Gazette, and Newfoundland Advertiser, [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YFjsv_pBGBYC&dat=18100621&printsec=frontpage (June 21, 1810)] pg. 2 of 2 (righthand page, 3rd column bottom). Accessed 24 October 2024

Storekeeper in Office of Ordnance solicits proposals to transport 1,000 tons of freestone from Cape Breton for royal works in St. John's"Office of Ordnance" (July 18, 1810), The Royal Gazette, and Newfoundland Advertiser [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YFjsv_pBGBYC&dat=18100719&printsec=frontpage (July 19, 1810)] pg. 2 of 2 (righthand page, 4th column). (See also [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YFjsv_pBGBYC&dat=18100823&printsec=frontpage call for proposals] (pg. 2 of 2, 3rd column) for 30–40 tons of large pine timber and [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YFjsv_pBGBYC&dat=18100913&printsec=frontpage for proposals] (pg. 2 of 2, 3rd column) for 160,000 pine shingles and 800 feet of paving stone and [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YFjsv_pBGBYC&dat=18100927&printsec=frontpage for proposals] (pg. 2 of 2, 3rd column) for 25,000 feet of pine boards) Accessed 24 October 2024

"To accelerate the progress of the Pupils [before] Examination," Newfoundland Seminary hours will be 6–8am, 9–noon and 2–5pm"Newfoundland Seminary" (April 12, 1810), The Royal Gazette, and Newfoundland Advertiser [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YFjsv_pBGBYC&dat=18100419&printsec=frontpage (April 19, 1810)] pg. 3 of 4 (lefthand page). (See also [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YFjsv_pBGBYC&dat=18101011&printsec=frontpage details] (pg. 2 of 2, righthand page, columns 2 and 3) of Examination's exercises) Accessed 23 October 2024

"Just Imported[...]From Gibraltar[...]Spanish Red Wine in pipes, hhds. and barrels, Linseed, Olive and Salad Oils in [2-gallon] Jars[....]""Just Imported" (July 12, 1810), The Royal Gazette, and Newfoundland Advertiser [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YFjsv_pBGBYC&dat=18100802&printsec=frontpage (August 2, 1810)] pg. 1 of 2 (righthand page, 1st column). Accessed 25 October 2024

"[People] arrived[...]from Waterford [should inform Robert Hutton & Co. where] they serve in order [for Hutton] to recover their Passage money""Notice" (June 28, 1810), The Royal Gazette, and Newfoundland Advertiser [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YFjsv_pBGBYC&dat=18100802&printsec=frontpage (August 2, 1810)] pg. 1 of 2 (lefthand page, 2nd column). Accessed 25 October 2024

Churchill chief on company-wide issues like completeness of accounts, waste and "the obligations each confidential Servant owed his Employers""Aug't 19th [1810]," [https://pam.minisisinc.com/DIGITALOBJECTS/Access/HBCA%20Microfilm/1M34/B42-A-136A.pdf Fort Churchill - Post Journal; 1810-1811] frames 5–6. Accessed 26 November 2024

Churchill chief factor argues it can become valuable to company with good support and concentration on fishery"Churchill Factory," [https://pam.minisisinc.com/DIGITALOBJECTS/Access/HBCA%20Microfilm/1M34/B42-A-136A.pdf Fort Churchill - Post Journal; 1810-1811] frames 12–15. Accessed 26 November 2024

Details of proposed boundary lines between Hudson's Bay Company territory and that of North West Company, from Abitibi to Rockies"Proposed Line of Boundary to be fixed[....]" (November 7, 1810), The North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company, 1808-1811, as in the Selkirk Papers, [https://digital.scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/solr?query=ID%3A27078&start=0&rows=10&mode=view&pos=0&page=21 Images 21–6] University of Saskatchewan Libraries. (See also Images 28–34 for 1811 version of this document) Accessed 21 November 2024

"Northern Indians" must be turned toward HBC "while the Canadians are by their hard dealings barely enabling the poor wretches to exist""16th [August 1810]," [https://pam.minisisinc.com/DIGITALOBJECTS/Access/HBCA%20Microfilm/1M34/B42-A-136A.pdf Fort Churchill - Post Journal; 1810-1811] frames 4 and 14 (left page bottom). Accessed 25 November 2024

Indigenous man thought to be planning to steal horses is bound and shot to death by HBC and Canadian traders; moral outrage follows"Aug't 19th [1810]; An Indian of the Christenaux Tribe[....]," [https://pam.minisisinc.com/DIGITALOBJECTS/Access/HBCA%20Microfilm/1M34/B42-A-136A.pdf Fort Churchill - Post Journal; 1810-1811] frames 6–8. Accessed 26 November 2024

York Factory is misshapen in winter (with gaps emitting cold air) as soil of swamp it's built on freezes; separate winter house is proposed"Aug't 19th [1810]; York Factory is more or less[....]," [https://pam.minisisinc.com/DIGITALOBJECTS/Access/HBCA%20Microfilm/1M34/B42-A-136A.pdf Fort Churchill - Post Journal; 1810-1811] frame 10. Accessed 26 November 2024

"The School Master + Children [at Moose Factory] were at Maidmans Creek to day angling and caught among 'em all 13 lb Trout""Dec 1st [1810]," [https://pam.minisisinc.com/DIGITALOBJECTS/Access/HBCA%20Microfilm/1M91/B135-A-99.pdf Moose - Post Journal; 1810-1811] frame 12. Accessed 25 November 2024

"Five of the Women have been employ'd during the Week sewing Moose Skin Jackets + Trousers for the Boys which the Tailor cut out""3rd [November 1810]," [https://pam.minisisinc.com/DIGITALOBJECTS/Access/HBCA%20Microfilm/1M91/B135-A-99.pdf Moose - Post Journal; 1810-1811] frame 9. Accessed 25 November 2024

New York legislature committee has begun "exploring the most practicable route" from Hudson River to Lake Ontario and Lake Erie"A committee of the Legislature[....]," The Quebec Mercury, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/36608451 August 6, 1810] pg. 253, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 8 November 2024

Alexander MacKay leads men to New York for voyage to Columbia River, where they expect to meet another Montreal party under Donald McKenzie"Montreal, August 20," The Quebec Gazette, [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269290 August 23, 1810] pg. 2 (3rd column bottom), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 16 November 2024

Missionaries describe evangelism among Labrador Inuit, including growing understanding of gospel by some and others' self righteousnessLetter from Hopedale (July 25, 1810), [https://dai.mun.ca/pdfs/cns_permorv/MissionsofUnitedBrethren_V05_1811.pdf Periodical accounts relating to the missions of the Church of the United Brethren established among the heathen] (frames 82–3), Memorial University of Newfoundland. Accessed 22 November 2024

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