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Events from the year 1773 in Canada.

Incumbents

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Governors

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Events

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  • December – Prominent French Canadians petition the King to restore their ancient laws and accord them the rights of British subjects, reminding him that five-sixths of the seigniories belong to Frenchmen. They represent that the Labrador Coast and fisheries, now alienated to Newfoundland, should revert to Canada. They prefer a Legislative Council, nominated by the King, because less expensive than an Elective Assembly.
  • Lord Dartmouth promises Canadians just and considerate treatment respecting their religion.
  • Montreal Ft. La Traite, on Churchill River, by Frobisher to cut into HBC's trade.

Births

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Full date unknown

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  • Joseph Willcocks, diarist, office holder, printer, publisher, journalist, politician, and army officer (d.1814)

Deaths

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Historical documents

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Canada

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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

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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

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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

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

Labrador

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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

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"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]

References

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  1. ^ "Kings and Queens of Canada". aem. 11 August 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  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. ^ "London; April 24" The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 444 (July 15, 1773), 1st-2nd pgs. Accessed 20 July 2022
  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. ^ "To the honourable Hector Theophilus Cramahé(....)" An Account of the Proceedings of the British [in] Quebec [for] An House of Assembly[....], pgs. 11-15 (Images 16-20; delivered December 3, 1773). (See also petitioners' attempts to recruit Canadians (texts in French) and Canadians' own petition with English translation) Accessed 14 July 2022
  6. ^ "Boston, May 10," The Nova-Scotia Gazette: and the Weekly Chronicle, Number 143 (May 25, 1773), last pg. Accessed 18 July 2022
  7. ^ "Quebec, July 15" The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 444 (July 15, 1773), 3rd pg. Accessed 20 July 2022
  8. ^ "Avertissements; Publick Notice(....)" The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 443 (July 8, 1773), 3rd pg. (See $100 reward and pardon offered for information (3rd pg.), and acquital for lack of evidence against six men tried for murder (3rd pg.)) Accessed 20 July 2022
  9. ^ "Mary Gilmore(....)" The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 448 (August 12, 1773), 3rd pg. (See partner's denial of her assertions (3rd pg.), her reply to him (2nd pg.) and his response (3rd pg.)) Accessed 20 July 2022
  10. ^ "Avertissements; Publick Notice(....)" The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 418 (January 7, 1773), 3rd pg. Accessed 19 July 2022
  11. ^ "Providence, October 30" The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 466 (December 16, 1773), 2nd pg. Accessed 20 July 2022
  12. ^ "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" (1773), 13 George III - Chapter 5 (Session 1), British North American Legislative Database, 1758-1867. Accessed 14 July 2022
  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. ^ "To All the Settlers and Inhabitants of the Township of Lunenburg(...)and especially the Poor, whether bound or free" The Gospel of Christ Preached to the Poor, pg. (III). Accessed 14 July 2022
  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. ^ "A Gentleman returned from the island of St. John's(....)" The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 466 (December 16, 1773), 2nd pg. Accessed 20 July 2022
  23. ^ "An Act for the more easy and effectual Trial(...)of what nature or kind soever(....)" George III, 13th Year, Chapter 8, The Statutes at Large, of Prince Edward Island[...]1773 to 1833, inclusive (1834), pgs. 6-8. Accessed 23 February 2023
  24. ^ "July 12" The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 458 (October 21, 1773), 3rd pg. Accessed 20 July 2022
  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. ^ "On Saturday Mr. Harrison(....)" The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 468 (December 30, 1773), 3rd pg. Accessed 20 July 2022
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