Attorney-General Monk and Solicitor-General Williams are of opinion that, as the
Jesuits have no civil existence as a Canadian corporation, their estates accrue to the Crown.
Ontario is divided into five districts,[2] under English law.
Dorchester pins "animosities [on] old resentments, and enmity," and hopes gradual reform will seem just to both no-change and change-now factions[14]
Both British and Canadian supporters of
legislative assembly for Canada say they outnumber and are "not less respectable" than opponents[15]
Backing assembly, "Sidney" says don't deprive people of their rights "merely because it would be difficult to accomplish an equal representation"[16]
Smuggling from U.S.A. includes
tea ("most consequential article of inland contraband"),
wine by sea, and
rum if Canadian price goes up[17]
For sale: "A Handsome
Negro Man" (age 22-23) "and a beautiful Negro Woman" (22-23), married to each other and "both of a good constitution"[18]
Missing: "A Negro Man named Caleb," about 26 or 27; "all persons are required not to harbour or employ the said Negro Slave"[19]
Reward $4 for missing "
Mulatto fellow named Pascal Puro,[...]about eighteen[...], talks good English, writes and reads,[...]calls himself a f[r]ee-man"[20]
No practising medicine,
midwifery or pharmacy in Montreal or Quebec without examination, university degree or past military practice, plus licence[21]
Ordinance requires adjustment to "trains" (long, heavy Canadian sleighs),
sleds and
carioles that are creating
cahots on roadways[22]
Paying members of 2,000-volume
Quebec Library are "gentlemen desirous to promote science, and
afford amusement and instruction"[23]
Mrs. Chilley's new boarding school for young ladies at
Beauport costs 15
guineas/year plus tuition for writing and arithmetic ($4) and French ($3)[24]
"A Distrest Family of Six Females long labouring under difficulties" seeks employment in
needlework, coarse or fine[25]
Documents identify Phillip Cook as father of Elisabeth Jones' baby born in
Sorel (a.k.a. William-Henry) parish[26]
Upper Canada
On visit to
Niagara,
Dorchester finds Loyalists thankful for Crown's support and "better circumstanced and happier than before the Rebellion"[27]
U.S. civilian and military development from
Ohio River to
Lake Champlain make necessary "advancing the Western settlements of this Province"[28]
^"Extract of a letter from [London to Halifax]" and "A Statement of the Claims[....],"
The Saint John Gazette, and the Weekly Advertiser Vol. III, Numb. 123 (September 19, 1788), Page 2 of 9 (lefthand page). (See also text of Loyalist claims act in The Saint John Gazette of
September 12, 1788) Accessed 22 May 2023
^"London; House of Commons; Monday Feb. 11; American Intercourse Bill,"
The Nova-Scotia Gazette, and the Weekly Chronicle Vol. XVIII, No. 1150 (April 22, 1788), Page 1 of 2 (front page). Accessed 23 May 2023
^"London, March 6,"
The Nova-Scotia Gazette, and the Weekly Chronicle Vol. XVIII, No. 1152 (May 6, 1788), Page 2 of 2 (lefthand page, left column). Accessed 23 May 2023 (See also
Navy-Office notice (pg. 3) that tenders for supplying white pine to Halifax and other navy yards will go out in late 1788)
^"From Lord Dorchester to Lord Sydney; Private" (October 14, 1788),
Records of Niagara; 1784-9 PDF pgs. 41-2. Accessed 2 June 2023
^"To be published by Subscription[....]," The Quebec Gazette,
Nomb. 1189 (May 29, 1788), pg. 4. Accessed 31 May 2023
^"From Lord Dorchester to Lord Sydney; Private" (October 14, 1788),
Records of Niagara; 1784-9 PDF pg. 41. Accessed 2 June 2023
^"To the People" (November 18, 1788), (Quebec) Herald and Universal Miscellany, Vol. I, No. 5,
December 22, 1788 Page 7 of 12. Accessed 26 May 2023
^"From Lord Dorchester to Lord Sydney" (May 17, 1788),
Records of Niagara; 1784-9 PDF pg. 29. Accessed 2 June 2023
^"To be Sold together[....]," The Quebec Gazette,
Nomb. 1170 (March 27, 1788), pg. 3. Accessed 31 May 2023
^"Run away on Sunday[....]" (April 16, 1788), The Quebec Gazette,
Nomb. 1170 (April 17, 1788), pg. 2. (See also
"Run away" ad (pg. 3) for 13-year-old Ben) Accessed 31 May 2023
^"Run away from the Schooner Lucy[....]" (June 3, 1788), The Quebec Gazette,
Nomb. 1190 (June 5, 1788), pg. 2. Accessed 31 May 2023
^"Anno Vicesimo Octavo Georgii III Regis; Chap. IX" (April 30, 1788), The Quebec Gazette,
Nomb. 1187 (May 15, 1788), pg. 2. (See also
remarks (pg. 3) on creation and enforcement of ordinance) Accessed 31 May 2023
^"Quebec, Dec. 29, 1788; Quebec Library," (Quebec) Herald and Universal Miscellany, Vol. I, No. 6,
December 29, 1788 Page 1 of 8. Accessed 26 May 2023
^"A Boarding School for Young Ladies," (Quebec) Herald and Universal Miscellany, Vol. I, No. 6,
December 29, 1788 Page 8 of 8. Accessed 26 May 2023
^"A Distrest Family of Six Females[....]," The Quebec Gazette,
Nomb. 1189 (May 29, 1788), pg. 2. Accessed 31 May 2023
^"From Lord Dorchester to Lord Sydney; Private" (October 14, 1788),
Records of Niagara; 1784-9 PDF pg. 40. Accessed 2 June 2023
^"From Lord Dorchester to Lord Sydney" (May 17, 1788),
Records of Niagara; 1784-9 PDF pg. 30. Accessed 2 June 2023
^"Surveyor-General's Office, Quebec, 7th July, 1788," The Quebec Gazette,
Nomb. 1196 (July 17, 1788), pg. 3. (See also
details (PDF pg. 49) of land allotment procedure) Accessed 1 June 2023
^"List of Saw Mills" (as of November 28, 1787),
The Nova-Scotia Gazette, and the Weekly Chronicle Vol. XVIII, No. 1181 (November 25, 1788), Page 2 of 2 (righthand page, centre column). Accessed 25 May 2023
^"St. John, September 9; To the Right Rev. Father in God, Dr. Charles Inglis, Bishop of Nova-Scotia" (September 22, 1788),
The Nova-Scotia Gazette, and the Weekly Chronicle Vol. XVIII, No. 1172 (September 23, 1788), Page 2 of 2 (lefthand page, right column). Accessed 25 May 2023
^"To Be Sold,"
The Nova-Scotia Gazette, and the Weekly Chronicle Vol. XVIII, No. 1151 (April 29, 1788), Page 2 of 2 (righthand page, centre column). (See clarification in
similar ad (front page) that term of servitude of indentured girl is for sale) Accessed 23 May 2023
^James MacGregor, A Letter to a Clergyman Urging him to set free a Black Girl he held in Slavery (1788),
pg. 5 (PDF pg. 9). Accessed 30 May 2023
^"Fell Parker at his Commissions Warehouse[....],"
The Nova-Scotia Gazette, and the Weekly Chronicle Vol. XVIII, No. 1172 (December 2, 1788), Page 1 of 2 (lefthand page, centre column). Accessed 26 May 2023
^"On Sunday next[...], a Charity Sermon[....],"
The Nova-Scotia Gazette, and the Weekly Chronicle Vol. XVIII, No. 1182 (December 2, 1788), Page 2 of 2 (righthand page, centre column). (See also
note (Page 2 of 2 (righthand page, centre column)) reporting almost £45 collected) Accessed 26 May 2023
^"Progress of New Brunswick" (1788), Winslow Papers; A.D. 1776-1826, pgs. 353-5 (PDF pg. 359). Accessed 12 May 2023
^Letter of Edward Winslow (April 19, 1788), Winslow Papers; A.D. 1776-1826, pgs. 356-8 (PDF pg. 364). Accessed 12 May 2023
^George Dixon, A Voyage Round the World; but More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America[...,] The Second Edition (1789),
pgs. 300-04 Accessed 29 May 2023
^John Meares, Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789 from China to the North West Coast of America (1789),
Chaps. IX-XI (pgs. 108-33). (See also
summary of Meares visit in his 1790 memorial) Accessed 29 May 2023
^Philomathematicus, "To the Printer" (January 1, 1788), The Quebec Gazette,
Nomb. 1169 (January 10, 1788), pg. 3. (See also answer of "Tommy Thumb, aged eight" in
January 24 Gazette (pg. 3)) Accessed 31 May 2023
^"Extract of a Letter from North Carolina, October 25,"
The Nova-Scotia Gazette, and the Weekly Chronicle Vol. XVIII, No. 1184 (December 16, 1788), Page 2 of 2 (righthand page, centre column). (See also
story ("Boston, November 13," Page 2 of 2 (righthand page, centre column)) of Saint John sloop keeled over off New England, possibly in same storm) Accessed 26 May 2023
^"London, June 24; A Private Messenger arrived yesterday at noon from Paris[....],"
The Nova-Scotia Gazette, and the Weekly Chronicle Vol. XVIII, No. 1166 (August 12, 1788), Page 2 of 2 (lefthand page, centre column). Accessed 25 May 2023
^"Present State of the Continental Powers; France,"
The Nova-Scotia Gazette, and the Weekly Chronicle Vol. XVIII, No. 1186 (December 30, 1788), Page 2 of 15 (righthand page, left column). Accessed 26 May 2023