1802 in Canada explained

Events from the year 1802 in Canada.

Incumbents

George III[1]

Federal government

3rd

3rd

Governors

Robert Milnes

Thomas Carleton

John Wentworth

Charles Morice Pole

Edmund Fanning

Events

Births

Full date unknown

Deaths

Historical documents

War with France, Spain and Batavia is over following U.K.'s ratification of Definitive Treaty of Peace[3]

U.S.A. is to pay U.K. £600,000 for benefit of British claimants of debts owed them from before American Revolution[4]

"Missionary" tells "Indian" "[we] know much more of that Great Power above than you in your present State of Ignorance can possibly do"[5]

Lower Canada

Hemp committee for District of Quebec publishes extensive instructions for growing hemp, saying it "is not so difficult as is imagined"[6]

Montrealers petition Assembly over problems with "Apprentices, Journeymen and Servants" taking advantage of various benefits then leaving prematurely[7]

"Several attempts to break open shops and cellars, a thing so unusual in this Country, are said to have been made"[8]

New bilingual weekly British-American Register is to "instill into the minds of individuals sound Principles, a love of learning, of order and propriety"[9]

"Choir of the [new] English Metropolitan Church" of Quebec City wants 12 boys and 8 young men who "will be taught singing by note gratis"[10]

Upper Canada

Lease 200 acres of crown and clergy reserve land for 21 years at 10/- or 3 bushels wheat per year for first 7 years and higher for later 7-year periods[11]

Nova Scotia

Author compiles opinions on "Negro Slavery" because its legality "has long occupied the attention both of the learned and unlearned among us"[12]

Slave owner bequeaths to family enslaved "Negro Woman," "Prince," "Diana," "Jack," "Samuel," "James" and "Cloe" (last 4 valued at 90 (pounds?))[13]

Funds needed by King's College for "an useful and extensive Library[...]highly conducive to the Success and Prosperity of this infant University"[14]

New Brunswick

Member Ward Chipman finds Legislative Assembly disabled by members "as ignorant, as abandoned and wicked, [as should never] be again chosen"[15]

With so many in Europe coming to Nova Scotia and Lower and Upper Canada, New Brunswick needs to state its qualities and "use[...]to the Empire"[16]

Males 16–50 (except Quakers) must enroll in militia and muster with musket or fuzee, bayonet, cartouch box, 1 lb. gunpowder and 2 lbs. bullets[17]

Queensbury Parish includes "a number of Poor People[...]desirous of giving their Children a small Share of Learning" and seeking Assembly's help[18]

As prosecutor in court-martial, Edward Winslow is instructed by Lt. Gov. Carleton to "not only be firm and decisive, but [also] temperate and discreet"[19]

British immigrant, though "farming for Maintenance to his family," owns under 1 acre and petitions for 150 acres between Maquapit and Grand Lake[20]

Hudson's Bay Company

Abitibi House says its "lavishness of Spiritous Liquors (the chief article that gains the Natives affection) is nothing" compared with Canadians' supply[21]

With "Mr. Best being constantly in Liquor," parcels containing "Liquor and Wine" are missing at Osnaburgh House; "Mr. Best must go home next Year"[22]

"Capt'n. Monk and all his Gang [of Indigenous people] have been in much distress, the half of them are sick and[...]unable to hunt a long time"[23]

Returning from Henley House, Fort Albany men bring "fine Wood for Boat building, fine Elm heels for Battaux, and a quantity of Ash for Floor timbers"[24]

After forcing its way through Hudson Bay ice, bow of brig sailing to Churchill is lifted by rope running from masthead to pack ice to repair damage[25]

Brig on Hudson Bay is struck by lightning, starting fire in cabin and hold and knocking men down - unhurt but "felt as if they had been Electrified"[26]

Elsewhere

Church of England liturgy is "the fixed Form of Worship" in Prince Edward Island, but "dissenting [Protestants] shall have free Liberty of Conscience"[27]

U.S. population is 5,172,000, with about 40% living in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts; enslaved in those states: 347,000, 1,600 and none[28]

Thomas Jefferson hears Alexander Mackenzie is going to "North West Country [with [[Variolation|smallpox] Vaccine Virus]] for the benefit of the unfortunate natives"[29]

Of 161 Moravian missionaries who are stationed in various places, 25 are in Labrador (in 3 settlements)[30]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 31 December 2015 . George III . 18 April 2016 . Official website of the British monarchy . Royal Household.
  2. "Catharine Parr Traill | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Archived from the original on 16 February 2020. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
  3. "By the King, a Proclamation, Declaring the Conclusion of the War" (April 26, 1802), The Quebec Gazette, Cahier 1 (August 5, 1802), pg. 4. Accessed 13 May 2024
  4. "From the London Gazette; Notice to Claimants under the Convention with the United States of America" (September 11, 1802), The Quebec Gazette, Cahier 1 (September 23, 1802), pg. 1. Accessed 13 May 2024
  5. https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.41916/38 "Dialogue I; Indian"
  6. "Notice" (May 11, 1802), The Quebec Gazette, Cahier 1 (May 27, 1802), pg. 4, continued in Cahier 2 pg. 1. Accessed 10 May 2024
  7. https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_00938_10/102 "A Petition of several Inhabitants(....)"
  8. "Caution" (October 18, 1802), The Quebec Gazette, Cahier 1 (October 21, 1802), pg. 3. Accessed 13 May 2024
  9. John Neilson, "Prospectus" (December 19, 1802), Séminaire de Québec, Bibliothèque. (See also first issue) Accessed 8 May 2024
  10. "Wanted" (February 2, 1802), The Quebec Gazette, February 4, 1802 pg. 2. Accessed 9 May 2024
  11. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=aeu.ark:/13960/t18k7w87s&seq=5 Crown and clergy reserves available for lease
  12. Anonymous, "Preface" Opinions of several Gentlemen of the Law, on the subject of Negro Servitude, in the province of Nova-Scotia (1802). Accessed 8 May 2024
  13. https://archives.novascotia.ca/africanns/archives/?ID=62 "Benjamin Belcher of Belcher Street (near Port Williams), estate inventory"
  14. https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.62897/6 "Library, King's College, Nova Scotia"
  15. https://web.lib.unb.ca/winslow/fullimagerecord.cgi?id=1585&level=2 "Letter from Ward Chipman to Edward Winslow, 3 March, 1802"
  16. https://web.lib.unb.ca/winslow/fullimagerecord.cgi?id=11100&level=3 "Letter from Edward Winslow to Amos Botsford, 16 October, 1802"
  17. https://bnald.lib.unb.ca/legislation/act-regulating-militia-passed-5th-march-1802 An Act for regulating the Militia
  18. Sylvanus Brown and 3 others, petition of Queensbury Parish residents (February 3, 1802), Legislative Assembly: Sessional Records (RS24), Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Accessed 15 May 2024
  19. "Letter from Thomas Carleton to Edward Winslow, 12 February, 1802," pg. 3 University of New Brunswick Library. Accessed 9 May 2024
  20. https://preserve.lib.unb.ca/wayback/20141205154351/http://contestedterrain.lib.unb.ca/petitions/view/hunter_james_1802_01 "Petition of James Hunter, 2 February 1802, Queen's County"
  21. Letter to chief factor at Moose Factory (October 20, 1802), "Moose - Post Journal; 1802-1803" frame 17, Archives of Manitoba. Accessed 17 May 2024
  22. "[October] 19th [1802]," "Albany - Post Journal; 1802-1803" frame 11, Archives of Manitoba. Accessed 17 May 2024
  23. "[December] 27th [1802]," "Albany - Post Journal; 1802-1803" frame 16, Archives of Manitoba. Accessed 17 May 2024
  24. "[October] 2nd [1802]," "Albany - Post Journal; 1802-1803" frame 8, Archives of Manitoba. Accessed 17 May 2024
  25. "Rem[ar]ks Wednesday Aug[u]st 18th [1802]," Ships' Logs - Ceres (Brig) frame 74, Archives of Manitoba. Accessed 16 May 2024
  26. "[August] 8th [1802]," "York Factory - Post Journal; 1801-1803" frame 35, Archives of Manitoba. Accessed 17 May 2024
  27. https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_01818/260 "An Act for the better and more effectual Establishment of the Church of England in this Island"
  28. "An Abstract of the Population of the United States," The Quebec Gazette, January 28, 1802 pg. 4. Accessed 9 May 2024
  29. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-37-02-0457 "To Thomas Jefferson from Caspar Wistar"
  30. "6. The number of Brethren and Sisters employed[....]," 1801-1805, vol. 03: Periodical accounts relating to the missions of the Church of the United Brethren established among the heathen, pg. 160 (frame 176 of 562), Memorial University of Newfoundland. Accessed 13 May 2024

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