1773 in Canada explained

Events from the year 1773 in Canada.

Incumbents

George III[1]

Governors

Guy Carleton

Lord William Campbell

John Byron

Walter Patterson

Events

Births

Full date unknown

Deaths

Historical documents

Canada

Attorney General says minimize change to laws of Canada, which should conform to its form of government, religion and revenue (Note: "savage" used)[2]

Two Exchequer-linked MPs say ministry has been asleep for 7 years while Canada needed proper government; Lord North says reforms will come in time[3]

Earl of Dartmouth on Quebec policies (religion, western territory) to be addressed shortly, plus cases involving Indigenous people (Note: "savages" used)[4]

Ninety freeholders sign petition to lieutenant-governor for popular assembly in Quebec, citing its good effect on "peace, welfare, and good government"[5]

Indigenous man from St.-Francois in Boston to seek "satisfaction for the deaths of several Indians[...]killed at different times in the woods by the English"[6]

21st Regiment leaving Quebec after 1 year, during which only 4 soldiers died - matchless record, even against "young and healthy Corps" from Britain[7]

"Marie Louise Blanchard was inhumanly beat and abus'd by some Soldiers in such a Manner that she expir'd" next morning[8]

Gazette co-owner's widow asks debtors pay money owed partnership so she can clear his debts and assume partnership management now denied her[9]

Pierre Ignace Dubois, baker, and his wife, Therese Charlotte Campion, buy stone house on Notre-Dame St., Montreal, for 6,500 shillings[10]

Surveyor-general, 4 Abenaki and 2 Hurons complete 3-month trek from Quebec to Boston to find best route for road between Canada and Massachusetts[11]

Nova Scotia

Temporary stop to shipping Nova Scotia grain, flour, meal or pease from Bay of Fundy ports before threshing season, and "to prevent a Scarcity thereof"[12]

Ed. Donahoo, having pled guilty to "assault with an intent to ravish" 8-year-old, is sentenced to 1 hour in pillory, £10 fine and 1 month in prison[13]

500 acre lot of cleared land for lease is on former site of Indigenous settlement at edge of 9-mile-long Eel Lake, between Barrington and Yarmouth[14]

Late Haligonian's estate at auction includes wharf, farm and other lots, fish barrels, seine, salmon nets, and "also a Negro named Prince" in private sale[15]

Missionary's Gospel guide is for poor people of Lunenburg to understand "Christian doctrine and Christian duty, as far as it is necessary in your Station"[16]

Books for sale in Halifax: "Macaulay's history of England," "Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardian," "Pope's Works, 4 vol." and "Smollet's Don Quixotte, 4 vol"[17]

With death of long-time Halifax schoolmaster, another plans to teach "Reading and Writing English, Bookkeeping, practical Geometry, Mensuration" etc.[18]

"Anna Fisher [will open a school in Halifax to] Teach Children the Rudiments of Reading and Writing, Sewing, and all sorts of Needle-Work"[19]

"John Rea, Master of Musick in the 59th Regt. takes this opportunity of informing the Public, that he teaches the German Flute"[20]

"The nights are now of a great length, therefore take care that you do not sleep too much, that being as hurtful to the body as too little."[21]

Prince Edward Island

St. John's Island "settlers turn themselves to the farming business," and their rich soil "produces excellent crops of the finest wheat in America"[22]

Because Island lacks enough qualified jurors in each county, criminal and civil cases will be tried in Queen's County with any Island jurors[23]

Newfoundland

Royal Navy cruisers are to seize "all mercantile goods, spirituous liquors, &c." that cannot be considered Newfoundland fishers' ship stores[24]

Labrador

George Cartwright's Inuit guests in England enjoy visit, but all but one die on return to Labrador and their people's "violent, frantic expressions of grief"[25]

Cartwright on his "slave girl's" father, to whom he traded bait-skiff for her and who died, leaving Cartwright "a legacy of two wives and three children"[26]

Elsewhere

"Sleeping at the edge of the sea" - Hudson's Bay Company loses trade of inland Indigenous people to "numerous and indefatigable" Canadian traders[27]

Alexander Henry the elder sets miners to work on vein of copper on Lake Superior north shore, but difficulty of work and diminishing vein end operation[28]

"We have certain advices from Boston" that people "dressed like Indians" went on East India Company ship and threw overboard about 340 chests of tea[29]

John Harrison, inventor of marine chronometer for determining longitude, receives £9,585 as final installment of £20,000 prize "for his useful discovery"[30]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kings and Queens of Canada . aem . 24 February 2021 . 11 August 2017.
  2. "Report of Attorney General, Edwd. Thurlow" (January 22, 1773), Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada, 1759-1791 (1907), pgs. 306-10 (PDF frames 319-24). Accessed 21 July 2022
  3. https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4266347 "London; April 24"
  4. "Dartmouth to Cramahé" (December 1, 1773), Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada, 1759-1791 (1907), pgs. 338-40 (PDF frames 352-4). Accessed 12 August 2022
  5. https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.36871/16 "To the honourable Hector Theophilus Cramahé(....)"
  6. "Boston, May 10," The Nova-Scotia Gazette: and the Weekly Chronicle, Number 143 (May 25, 1773), last pg. Accessed 18 July 2022
  7. https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4266347 "Quebec, July 15"
  8. https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4266346 "Avertissements; Publick Notice(....)"
  9. https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4266347 "Mary Gilmore(....)"
  10. https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4266321 "Avertissements; Publick Notice(....)"
  11. https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4266370 "Providence, October 30"
  12. https://bnald.lib.unb.ca/legislation/act-prevent-limited-time-exportation-or-shipping-wheat-rye-barley-flour-meal-and-pease "An Act to prevent for a limitted Time the Exportation or Shipping of Wheat, Rye, Barley, Flour, Meal, and Pease, from any of the Ports or Places in this Province, within the Bay of Fundy"
  13. "Halifax, August 17," The Nova-Scotia Gazette: and the Weekly Chronicle, Number 152 (August 17, 1773), Page 4 of 4. Accessed 18 July 2022
  14. "To be Let[...]About 500 Acres", The Nova-Scotia Gazette: and the Weekly Chronicle, Number 124 (January 12, 1773), Page 2 of 4. Accessed 15 July 2022
  15. "To be Sold, By Public Auction," The Nova-Scotia Gazette: and the Weekly Chronicle, Number 148 (June 29, 1773), Page 2 of 4. Accessed 18 July 2022
  16. https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.94373/8 "To All the Settlers and Inhabitants of the Township of Lunenburg(...)and especially the Poor, whether bound or free"
  17. "New Books," The Nova-Scotia Gazette: and the Weekly Chronicle, Number 145 (June 8, 1773), 2nd pg. (See also criticism of "Dr. Cadogen's Dissertation on the Gout, and all other Chronic Diseases" one of these books (Page 4 of 4)) Accessed 18 July 2022
  18. "The Subscriber," The Nova-Scotia Gazette: and the Weekly Chronicle, Number 148 (June 29, 1773), Page 2 of 4. (See also death notice of former school master (Page 4 of 4, bottom right corner)) Accessed 18 July 2022
  19. "Anna Fisher," The Nova-Scotia Gazette: and the Weekly Chronicle, Number 140 (May 4, 1773), Page 2 of 4. Accessed 18 July 2022
  20. "John Rea," The Nova-Scotia Gazette: and the Weekly Chronicle, Number 148 (June 29, 1773), Page 2 of 4. Accessed 18 July 2022
  21. January 1773, "The Nova-Scotia Calendar; Or an Almanack; For the year of the Christian Æræ, 1773," Image 9. (See also poem "On Sleep") Accessed 14 July 2022
  22. https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4266370 "A Gentleman returned from the island of St. John's(....)"
  23. https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_01818/6 "An Act for the more easy and effectual Trial(...)of what nature or kind soever(....)"
  24. https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4266362 "July 12"
  25. C.W. Townsend (ed.), Captain Cartwright and His Labrador Journal (1911), pgs. 128-39 Accessed 15 July 2022
  26. C.W. Townsend (ed.), "Sunday, October 10, 1773," Captain Cartwright and His Labrador Journal (1911), pg. 143 (See also Cartwright takes one child to England and has him fatally inoculated for smallpox) Accessed 15 July 2022
  27. Edward Umfreville, The Present State of Hudson's Bay (1790), pgs. 70-1 (See also HBC in 1773 "begin their inland voyages" to detriment of Indigenous people) Accessed 15 July 2022
  28. Alexander Henry the elder, Travels and Adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories[....] (1809), pg. 234 Accessed 15 July 2022
  29. "Halifax, Dec. 28," The Nova-Scotia Gazette: and the Weekly Chronicle, Number 171 (December 28, 1773), Page 3 of 4. (See also letter with details of events leading to and likely results of Tea Party) Accessed 18 July 2022
  30. https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4266372 "On Saturday Mr. Harrison(....)"

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