1810 in Canada
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Events from the year 1810 in Canada.
Incumbents
[edit]Federal government
[edit]- Parliament of Lower Canada: 6th (January 29 – March 1) then 7th (starting December 12)
- Parliament of Upper Canada: 5th
Governors
[edit]- 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
Events
[edit]- 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.[2]
Births
[edit]- 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)
Full date unknown
[edit]- Aldis Bernard, mayor of Montreal (d.1876)
- Charles Connell, politician (d.1873)
- George Moffat, Sr., businessman and politician (d.1878)
Deaths
[edit]- April 9 – Alessandro Malaspina, explorer (b.1754)
- September 12 – Joseph Frobisher, fur trader, merchant (b. 1740)
Historical documents
[edit]If peace comes, Quebec newspaper will cover greater variety of news, but is now "in a manner, exclusively fettered to war and politics"[3]
Madison administration is encouraging Congressional "resolutions breathing war and tending to precipitate us into immediate hostilities"[4]
Massachusetts Legislature committee says, with territory "already too extensive," U.S. should not take Canada, "this province of Frenchmen"[5]
Boston editorial says, "We cannot credit the monstrous idea that the administration have any intention of again recommending the embargo system"[6]
George Rose, of Commons committee on trade, proposes resolution to raise duty on foreign timber to favour colonial trade (it passes)[7]
"A war with the Indians of the Wabash country is considered as inevitable" as Tecumseh resolutely opposes settler expansion[8]
Stereotypes of Indigenous people: crying and begging "Northern Indians," reserved Nootka Sound inhabitants and lofty Five Nations[9]
Anglican missionary society wants to know temper, prudence, learning, "sober and pious conversation," zeal, diligence etc. of applicants[10]
"His Majesty is said to have determined to undergo the operation of couching [to restore] him to the blessings of sight"[11]
John Vincent dies, "an Indian, aged 95, [who] in 1775 espoused the American cause" though his tribe were "seduced to the British interest"[12]
Lower Canada
[edit]Translation of list in Le Canadien of members in Assembly elected after dissolution, showing how many more will behave "worse than ever!"[13]
Assembly's address to Throne includes statement that L.C. prosperity will allow it to pay province's government expenditure[14]
Assembly passes bill disqualifying judges from sitting in Assembly and sends it to Legislative Council[15]
Council's warrants lead to arrest of P.-S. Bédard, J.-T. Taschereau and Le Canadien printer, and seizure of newspaper's presses[16]
In proclamation, Gov. Gen. Craig calls on magistrates, militia captains and others to find authors of "wicked, seditious and traitorous writings"[17]
Several U.S. citizens living in L.C. who want agent appointed to protect them and their trade recommend Mordecai Manuel Noah[18]
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[19]
"The public will do well to endeavour to arrest this new species of our infant manufactures" - Quebec City counterfeiters make dollar coins[20]
"Provisions [are] very scarce" and price of "articles of life" has greatly increased, probably from increase in trade and thus population[21]
Pointe-Lévy has so many taverns that for income some owners convince produce sellers headed for market to sell to them at low prices[22]
Quebec City inhabitants seek relief from Assembly from high prices charged by monopoly dealing in "every kind of produce"[23]
Wanted for British forces in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick etc.: 2,085 barrels of pork "warranted to keep good and sound for Twelve Months"[24]
Jailed debtors petition Assembly to be relieved of inhumane conditions and indefinite terms of imprisonment[25]
Death notice of Joseph Frobisher, fur trader and Northwest Company founder, seigneur, and pillar of Montreal society[26]
Letter to editor contains summary of Northwest Company staff numbers from Alexander Mackenzie's fur trade history[27]
With only 12 parishes making use of law to create schools, writer criticizes prejudice against educating "lower classes," especially Canadians[28]
Editorial says "Canadian education" called for is merely "a pressure for keeping down thought [and] charming reason asleep"[29]
French is "an essential Part of a liberal Education," and is more easily learned from dialogues that avoid perplexing idiomatic expressions[30]
"Educated" Canadians have superior French "if we except the Anglicisms which have been unavoidably interwoven with the language since the conquest"[31]
Examinations at Little Seminary of Quebec will be followed by "Plaidoyer" by third class students and another by students in rhetoric[32]
Quebec City school owner teaches boys and girls "in the preliminary paths of science," including geography, natural philosophy and astronomy[33]
Though only "fanciful productions of human vanity [can] suppose man capable of self-government," none are slaves except Canadian "peasants"[34]
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"[35]
Large reward is offered by timber business firm for information on thefts by boat of masts and timbers from its riverside property[36]
Quebec City firm has received from England new type of threshing machine that allows one man and horse to do work of dozen men[37]
"To make it truly valuable," commerce must, before exporting grain, relieve those short of bread because of high cost of living[38]
Montreal trade has increased greatly in 2 years, with 40+ barks and brigs, 20 schooners and sloops and several Lake Ontario boats in port[39]
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[40]
Editorial says "some [disorder] unavoidably [goes with] an increased population, an enlarged trade, and[...]intercourse with uncivilized characters"[41]
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[42]
Berthier woman, "for the support of her family," gets court-ordered separation of estate from husband to carry on boarder/traveller house[43]
One dead after several cariole crashes, including one from which driver is thrown and runaway horse and empty cariole break person's arm[44]
Praise in Montreal theatre world for "Mr. [John] Bernard[...]who has given an entire new coloring to what has been termed comic acting"[45]
Journeymen shoemakers wanted; wages: 18s for "top't and back strap't" boots, 12s for Hessian and plain boots, 5s for "Gloshoes"[46]
"For sale, Macaroni and Vermicelli, most excellent for soupe[....]"[47]
Upper Canada
[edit]Organizers of new bank in Kingston wish to sell 500 $50-shares, totaling $250,000, before seeking incorporation from Parliament[48]
Suggested ways farming could be improved, such as dropping "prejudices" against hemp and making and preserving butter and cheese better[49]
Road building in Lower Canada is example for U.C., where parts of main road should be improved into "a complete turnpike road"[50]
Ogdensburg, N.Y. shipper gives notice that he will take flour, pork, whisky, potash and other goods to that city or Montreal/Quebec City[51]
Canadian Quakers, at first combined meeting, report that most keep themselves and children "in plainess of speach behavour and apparel"[52]
New York newspaper reports most aboard boat carrying salt were swept over Niagara Falls after they foundered in swells from strong winds[53]
Grand jury praised for information of seditious libel against Upper Canada Guardian publisher for words "calculated to mislead [and] alienate"[54]
John Strachan's profile of King George III is meant to counter slanderous comments prevalent in U.S.A. about him and British constitution[55]
Letter to the editor has suggestions for improving common education, including parents discussing with students what they have learned[56]
Call in Quebec for donations to support printing "useful books" for poor of U.C., including "children's books and moral and religious Tracts"[57]
"A decoction of the roots of blackberry bushes[...]is a safe, sure and speedy cure for the dysentary—-The [recipe] from the Oneida Indians"[58]
Nova Scotia
[edit]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"[59]
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[60]
Anglican minister says many Rawdon parishoners "do not consider themselves members of the Church" and Baptist preacher has drawn some away[61]
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"[62]
New Brunswick
[edit]Death penalty for those even counselling or aiding administration of "any[...]noxious and destructive substance or thing" to terminate pregnancy[63]
"From recent occurrences," Assembly members are urged to renew militia law and enable government to promptly call it into action[64]
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[65]
"Sea-faring" men can form into companies of "Sea Fencibles" militia and are subject to same time commitment and various penalties as land forces[66]
Certificate that John Baptist Pommeville Jr. is appointed chief of Pokemouche Indigenous people on Acadian Peninsula[67]
Lewis Barnaby "of the Mirimachi Tribe of Indians" leases out "Barnabys Island" in Southwest Miramichi River for period of 21 years[68]
Edward Winslow's daughter Penelope says he suffered gout for 4 months, then when he tried to walk, sustained more crippling case of it[69]
Anyone killing, wounding, selling or buying any Grand Manan moose or moose parts will pay £15 (except Moses Gerrish, who keeps them there)[70]
Newfoundland
[edit]Brief introduction to Newfoundland says it "seems to have been designed by providence for a Fishery"[71]
Lacking roads, some Newfoundlanders haven't "a knowledge of God [and have] acquired a character not many degrees above absolute barbarism"[72]
Gov. Duckworth will reward efforts to "conciliate [Indigenous peoples'] affections and induce them to come among us and live in friendship"[73]
"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"[74]
Meeting sets new price for fish, given state of fishery, high price of food and "precarious prospect of our foreign commercial relations"[75]
"Society for improving the Condition of the Poor of St. John's [hears that] 56 persons had been relieved the last year"[76]
Announcement and prospectus for new weekly newspaper "to communicate interesting intelligence with the greatest expedition"[77]
"Wanted, from 10,000 to 15,000 Seal Skins. Apply to James Melledge & Co."[78]
Storekeeper in Office of Ordnance solicits proposals to transport 1,000 tons of freestone from Cape Breton for royal works in St. John's[79]
"To accelerate the progress of the Pupils [before] Examination," Newfoundland Seminary hours will be 6–8am, 9–noon and 2–5pm[80]
"Just Imported[...]From Gibraltar[...]Spanish Red Wine in pipes, hhds. and barrels, Linseed, Olive and Salad Oils in [2-gallon] Jars[....]"[81]
"[People] arrived[...]from Waterford [should inform Robert Hutton & Co. where] they serve in order [for Hutton] to recover their Passage money"[82]
Hudson's Bay Company
[edit]Churchill chief on company-wide issues like completeness of accounts, waste and "the obligations each confidential Servant owed his Employers"[83]
Churchill chief factor argues it can become valuable to company with good support and concentration on fishery[84]
Details of proposed boundary lines between Hudson's Bay Company territory and that of North West Company, from Abitibi to Rockies[85]
"Northern Indians" must be turned toward HBC "while the Canadians are by their hard dealings barely enabling the poor wretches to exist"[86]
Indigenous man thought to be planning to steal horses is bound and shot to death by HBC and Canadian traders; moral outrage follows[87]
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[88]
"The School Master + Children [at Moose Factory] were at Maidmans Creek to day angling and caught among 'em all 13 lb Trout"[89]
"Five of the Women have been employ'd during the Week sewing Moose Skin Jackets + Trousers for the Boys which the Tailor cut out"[90]
Elsewhere
[edit]New York legislature committee has begun "exploring the most practicable route" from [Hudson River#19th century|Hudson River]] to Lake Ontario and Lake Erie[91]
Alexander MacKay leads men to New York for voyage to Columbia River, where they expect to meet another Montreal party under Donald McKenzie[92]
Missionaries describe evangelism among Labrador Inuit, including growing understanding of gospel by some and others' self righteousness[93]
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- ^ "Deputy Commissary General's Office," The Quebec Gazette, January 18, 1810 pg. 1, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 12 November 2024
- ^ "A Petition of sundry Debtors[....]" Journal of the House of Assembly, Lower-Canada (1810), pg. 140 Accessed 5 November 2024
- ^ "Died," The Quebec Gazette (via Montreal Gazette), September 20, 1810 pg. 3 (1st column), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 18 November 2024
- ^ "In the general History of the fur trade[....]" The Quebec Mercury, 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
- ^ 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
- ^ "A Canadian education! What is it?" The Quebec Mercury, January 8, 1810 pg. 15 (first column), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 6 November 2024
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- ^ "To the Public" (June 21, 1810), The Quebec Gazette, June 21, 1810 pg. 2 (3rd column middle), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 15 November 2024
- ^ An Enquiry into the Evils of General Suffrage and Frequent Elections in Lower Canada (1810), pg. 7 (Image 12). Accessed 28 October 2024
- ^ "We learn with the utmost satisfaction[....]," The Quebec Mercury, July 30, 1810 pg. 247, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. (See also 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 description (pgs. 2–3) of road and its benefit to Quebec City) Accessed 8 November 2024
- ^ "Four Hundred Dollars Reward" (July 16, 1810), The Quebec Mercury, July 23, 1810 pg. 233, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. (See also opinion about "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
- ^ "To Farmers, & Others" (October 29, 1810), The Quebec Mercury, October 29, 1810 pg. 350, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 11 November 2024
- ^ "Mr. Editor" (September 9, 1810), The Quebec Mercury, September 17, 1810 pg. 301, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 8 November 2024
- ^ "Montreal, June 18," The Quebec Gazette, May 21, 1810 pg. 2 (2nd column middle), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. (See also painting of Montreal) Accessed 15 November 2024
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- ^ "Montreal, March 12; Ship Argo[....]," The Quebec Gazette, March 15, 1810 pg. 2, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 14 November 2024
- ^ "Catherine Ferland[....]" (September 10, 1810), The Quebec Gazette, October 4, 1810 pg. 1 (2nd column middle), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 18 November 2024
- ^ "Quebec, December 17, 1810; On Tuesday, Mrs. Taylor[....]," The Quebec Mercury, December 17, 1810 pg. 407 (centre column), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 11 November 2024
- ^ "The Drama," The Quebec Mercury, 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 intention (pg. 298) "to fit up a very handsome temporary theatre for next Spring and Summer") Accessed 8 November 2024
- ^ "Wanted" (May 10, 1810), The Quebec Gazette, 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[....]" The Quebec Mercury, April 2, 1810 pg. 111 (first column bottom), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 7 November 2024
- ^ "A Number of the Inhabitants of the town of Kingston having associated for the purpose of establishing a Bank[....]" (December 1810), Image 5. (See also letters to the editor in Kingston Gazette) Accessed 28 October 2024
- ^ "Agricultural," Kingston Gazette (December 4, 1810), pg. 2 Kingston Frontenac Public Library. Accessed 18 November 2024
- ^ "Kingston: Tuesday, November 27, 1810; Communications," Kingston Gazette (November 27, 1810), pg. 3 Kingston Frontenac Public Library. Accessed 18 November 2024
- ^ "Notice; The Subscribers inform the Public(....)" (July 1810), Toronto Public Library. (See also "Tariff of Commissions for the Transaction of Business" at Montreal) Accessed 31 October 2024
- ^ "3rd [answer to Queries]," Canada Half Yearly Meeting 1810–1855 frame 2, Canadian Friends Historical Association. Accessed 22 November 2024
- ^ "Terrible Accident," The Quebec Mercury, December 17, 1810 pg. 404, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 11 November 2024
- ^ "Upper Canada; On Tuesday last[....]," The Quebec Gazette, April 19, 1810 pg. 2, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. (See also excerpts (pgs. 317–27 (frames 355–65)) of text labelled libelous) Accessed 14 November 2024
- ^ John Strachan, "Advertisement," A Discourse on the Character of King George the Third, Addressed to the Inhabitants of British America (1810), Image 8 Accessed 29 October 2024
- ^ "Kingston: Tuesday, November 27, 1810; Communications; Common Schools," Kingston Gazette (November 27, 1810), pg. 3 Kingston Frontenac Public Library. Accessed 18 November 2024
- ^ "A Friendly Hint" (August 20, 1810), The Quebec Mercury, August 20, 1810 pg. 271, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 8 November 2024
- ^ "Dysentary," The Quebec Gazette, September 6, 1810 pg. 2 (2nd column bottomish), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 18 November 2024
- ^ Journal of Rev. John Wiswall (November 26, 1810), frame 151, Acadia University. Accessed 1 November 2024
- ^ "Boston, Sept. 17," The Quebec Gazette, September 22, 1810 pg. 4 (2nd column), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. (See also note (pg. 2, 4th column, and repeated on pg. 4) that Britain has 40,000 troops there) Accessed 18 November 2024
- ^ "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), pgs. 37–8 Accessed 28 November 2024
- ^ "Wednesday, June 20th (1810)" The Diary of Simeon Perkins; 1804-1812 (1978), pg. 222. Accessed 1 November 2024
- ^ 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
- ^ Opening address to House of Assembly (January 29, 1810), Legislative Assembly: Sessional Records (RS24), Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Accessed 22 November 2024
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ "Indian Affairs; Document #36" (November 7, 1810), University of New Brunswick Archives. Accessed 21 November 2024
- ^ "Petition of Jared Betts, 3 August 1810, Northumberland County. Transcription" University of New Brunswick Libraries. Accessed 1 November 2024
- ^ "Letter from Penelope Winslow to Edward Winslow, 26 March 1810, Kingsclear [residence, N.B.," pg. 2, University of New Brunswick Libraries. (See also letter saying trip that summer was "of great service to his health," and also his news of complete relief caused by l'Eau Medicinale d'Husson) Accessed 1 November 2024
- ^ 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
- ^ "Mr. Cary, Newfoundland[....]," The Quebec Mercury, November 12, 1810 pg. 363, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 11 November 2024
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- ^ "A Proclamation" (August 1, 1810), The Royal Gazette, and Newfoundland Advertiser (August 2, 1810) pg. 2 of 2 (righthand page, 4th column). (See also Gov. Duff's 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 stories of government goodwill and people's cruelty) Accessed 25 October 2024
- ^ "It is a melancholy truth[....]," The Royal Gazette, and Newfoundland Advertiser (September 27, 1810) pg. 2 of 2 (lefthand page, 3rd column). Accessed 25 October 2024
- ^ "The Royal Gazette; Thursday, August 30, 1810; On Monday[....]," The Royal Gazette, and Newfoundland Advertiser (August 30, 1810) pg. 2 of 2 (righthand page, 2nd column). (See also comment (pg. 2 of 2, 3rd column) that many at meeting opposed price fixing, and map of shipping routes from St. John's) Accessed 25 October 2024
- ^ "Communication," The Royal Gazette, and Newfoundland Advertiser (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
- ^ "To the Society of Merchants, and the Public in general" (July 5, 1810), The Royal Gazette, and Newfoundland Advertiser (July 5, 1810) pg. 2 of 2 (righthand page, 4th column). Accessed 24 October 2024
- ^ "Wanted" (June 14, 1810), The Royal Gazette, and Newfoundland Advertiser, (June 21, 1810) pg. 2 of 2 (righthand page, 3rd column bottom). Accessed 24 October 2024
- ^ "Office of Ordnance" (July 18, 1810), The Royal Gazette, and Newfoundland Advertiser (July 19, 1810) pg. 2 of 2 (righthand page, 4th column). (See also call for proposals (pg. 2 of 2, 3rd column) for 30–40 tons of large pine timber and for proposals (pg. 2 of 2, 3rd column) for 160,000 pine shingles and 800 feet of paving stone and for proposals (pg. 2 of 2, 3rd column) for 25,000 feet of pine boards) Accessed 24 October 2024
- ^ "Newfoundland Seminary" (April 12, 1810), The Royal Gazette, and Newfoundland Advertiser (April 19, 1810) pg. 3 of 4 (lefthand page). (See also details (pg. 2 of 2, righthand page, columns 2 and 3) of Examination's exercises) Accessed 23 October 2024
- ^ "Just Imported" (July 12, 1810), The Royal Gazette, and Newfoundland Advertiser (August 2, 1810) pg. 1 of 2 (righthand page, 1st column). Accessed 25 October 2024
- ^ "Notice" (June 28, 1810), The Royal Gazette, and Newfoundland Advertiser (August 2, 1810) pg. 1 of 2 (lefthand page, 2nd column). Accessed 25 October 2024
- ^ "Aug't 19th [1810]," Fort Churchill - Post Journal; 1810-1811 frames 5–6. Accessed 26 November 2024
- ^ "Churchill Factory," Fort Churchill - Post Journal; 1810-1811 frames 12–15. Accessed 26 November 2024
- ^ "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, Images 28–34 University of Saskatchewan Libraries. Accessed 21 November 2024
- ^ "16th [August 1810]," Fort Churchill - Post Journal; 1810-1811 frames 4 and 14 (left page bottom). Accessed 25 November 2024
- ^ "Aug't 19th [1810]; An Indian of the Christenaux Tribe[....]," Fort Churchill - Post Journal; 1810-1811 frames 6–8. Accessed 26 November 2024
- ^ "Aug't 19th [1810]; York Factory is more or less[....]," Fort Churchill - Post Journal; 1810-1811 frame 10. Accessed 26 November 2024
- ^ "Dec 1st [1810]," Moose - Post Journal; 1810-1811 frame 12. Accessed 25 November 2024
- ^ "3rd [November 1810]," Moose - Post Journal; 1810-1811 frame 9. Accessed 25 November 2024
- ^ "A committee of the Legislature[....]," The Quebec Mercury, August 6, 1810 pg. 253, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 8 November 2024
- ^ "Montreal, August 20," The Quebec Gazette, August 23, 1810 pg. 2 (3rd column bottom), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 16 November 2024
- ^ Letter from Hopedale (July 25, 1810), 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