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  1817 in Canada #CanadianHistory #history A newspaper editor is so distressed by a major #fire in St. John's that "the powerful emotions which agitate our minds" leave him unable to describe the calamity to readers https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YFjsv_pBGBYC&dat=18171111&printsec=frontpage Pg. 2 of 2 (righthand page) See also: Coverage of the fire https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YFjsv_pBGBYC&dat=18171125&printsec=frontp...

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  1817 in Canada #CanadianHistory #history Prince Edward Island has gained little from its agriculture, trade and commerce because "the absent Proprietors of Land in the Colony and its Inhabitants" don't cooperate https://archives.novascotia.ca/newspapers/archives/?ID=1015&Page=201114042 Pg. 2 (1st column) #PrinceEdwardIsland See also: Politics on Prince Edward Island - Did you know? https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/politics-on-prince-edward-islan...

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  1817 in Canada #CanadianHistory #history A deed of land along the lower Red and Assiniboine rivers shows Peguis and four other Saulteaux and #Cree chiefs opening it to the Earl of Selkirk for an annual rent of 200 lbs. of #tobacco https://pam.minisisinc.com/DIGITALOBJECTS/Access/HBCA/Legal%20records%20relating%20to%20the%20Red%20River%20settlement/HBCA-E8-1-009-010-11.pdf #RedRiver See also: Red River - History https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/red-river Peguis https://thecanadi...

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  1817 in Canada #CanadianHistory #history A Quebec City #newspaper editor notes the types of news that are covered in papers and how much space goes to advertisements while so little is given to death notices https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3661301 Pg. 237 (centre column) #obituary See also: Newspapers in Canada: 1800s–1900s https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/newspapers-in-canada-1800s1900s

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  1817 in Canada #CanadianHistory #history The Prince Edward Island lieutenant-governor says "the storm of war which has so long raged [has left] an agitated and troubled political Sea" https://archives.novascotia.ca/newspapers/archives/?ID=996&Page=201113966 Pg. 2 (5th column) #PrinceEdwardIsland

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  1817 in Canada #CanadianHistory #history #Map: The territory between York Fort and the Mississippi River headwaters and between the Qu'Appelle River and Sault Ste. Marie, showing the territories of the First Nations https://digitalarchive.tpl.ca/objects/345734/statement-respecting-the-earl-of-selkirks-settlement-upon-t?idx=10# Frame 3 #SaultSteMarie See also: York Fort - Northern Headquarters https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/york-factory Sault Ste. Marie - Settlement an...

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  1818 in Canada #CanadianHistory #history "For [North] America to open its arms and its soil to the redundant population of other countries is[...]fulfilling the designs of God and nature" https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3661378 Pg. 190 (centre column) #colonization #immigration See also: Colonialism in Canada - British Colonialism in Canada https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/colonialism-in-canada Immigration to Canada https://thecanadianenc...

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  1818 in Canada #CanadianHistory #history Former president James Madison says Canada is a "source of collision" for the U.S.A., and as a U.S. state it would remove more weakness from the U.K. than add strength to the U.S. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-01-02-0333 #JamesMadison See also: James Madison https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/james-madison

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  1818 in Canada #CanadianHistory #history The immigrant should have £300–400 or risk either working his land without enough food and too far from a market town, or working his trade in summer only https://archives.novascotia.ca/newspapers/archives/?ID=1049&Page=201114179 Pg. 3 (2nd column) See also: Editorial opinion that any delay in receiving land will ruin even immigrants arriving with money in their pockets https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4928869 (Pg. 2, 4th c...

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  1818 in Canada #CanadianHistory #history The 99th #Regiment of British Regulars is ordered home to be disbanded, but only 200 of one 900-man battalion are leaving; the rest are continuing their already long residence in Canada https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4928870 Pg. 2 (5th column) #BritishArmy See also: Arms and the Men of the War of 1812 https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/arms-and-the-men-of-1812 Regiment - The 19th Century https://thecanadianencycloped...

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  1818 in Canada #CanadianHistory #history A #Methodist #missionary says #dancing creates expense, injures #health, promotes drunkenness, inflames passions, destroys the soul forever etc. https://dai.mun.ca/PDFs/archives/John_Lewis_Journal_Transcription_8.pdf (scroll down the transcript to "Wednsday 4th I Married[....]" on pg. 4) See also: Recreational Dance https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/recreational-dance

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  1818 in Canada #CanadianHistory #history In the throne speech, the governor general informs the Lower Canada legislature that it will have to "vote the sums necessary for the ordinary annual expenditure of the Province" https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4612998 Pg. 1 Disponible en français See also: An editorial claiming this requirement establishes the "constitutional influence" of the Assembly https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/d...

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  1818 in Canada #CanadianHistory #history The writer of a letter to the editor opposes the death penalty for lesser crimes, as it does not deter crime and its severity prompts not-guilty verdicts from juries https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4613055 Pg. 2 (2nd column) #DeathPenalty #deterrence #verdict #jury See also: Capital Punishment in Canada https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/capital-punishment Crime https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/crime

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  1818 in Canada #CanadianHistory #history Construction of the Lachine Canal is deferred, and immigrants who would have worked on it have gone to work on New York's Erie Canal, delaying the needed growth of Lower Canada's inland navigation https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4928882 Pg. 3 (1st column) #ErieCanal See also: Lachine Canal https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/le-canal-de-lachine

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  1818 in Canada #CanadianHistory #history Quebec Gazette editorial: Only "habits of industry and moral restraint" will prevent poverty, and only charity can be expected to provide relief https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4612997 Pg. 2 (4th column) Disponible en français #poverty See also: First Newspapers in Canada - Quebec Gazette/Gazette de Québec https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/first-newspapers-in-canada

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  1818 in Canada #CanadianHistory #history Quebec City licensed physicians claim the law governing #medicine has not stopped #quackery nor established the qualification of medical students https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_00938_28/43 Pg. 44 #physician #QuebecCity See also: History of Medicine to 1950 - Regulation of the Medical Profession History of Medicine to 1950 - 19th Century Medical Education https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/history-of-medicine

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  1818 in Canada #CanadianHistory #history Physicians pay an annual fee for every patient sent to the Quebec City dispensary who is poor and either ill or in late-term pregnancy ("lying-in"), or a child needing the cowpox vaccine against #smallpox https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.56341/6 #physician #QuebecCity #vaccination

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  1818 in Canada #CanadianHistory #history The Commissioners for Insane Persons and Foundlings in Lower Canada suggest there are "persons who, although insane, ought not to be shut up in the Cells" https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_00938_28/43 Pgs. 44-5 See also: An Assembly committee resolves that £2,500 be spent on "Apartments" in a Quebec City hospital wing and £2,000 for additional cells in Montreal https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_00938_28/153...

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  1818 in Canada #CanadianHistory #history Three boys are poisoned by eating Carotte à Moreau (Cicutaire maculée), and two of them (seven and five years old) die, while the third survives after his mother makes him vomit https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4613036 Pg. 2 (2nd column) See also: Details of the case https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4928866 (pg. 2, 5th column) #poison See also: Poisonous Plants - Internal Poisoning https://thecanadianencyclop...

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  1818 in Canada #CanadianHistory #history Quebec Gazette publisher John Neilson asks for the disallowance of a rival Assembly candidate's by-election win because violence and corruption were used to defeat him https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_00938_28/20 Pgs. 21–3 See also: The Assembly resolves that the rival is not qualified to sit and must pay the cost of the prosecution of Neilson's case https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_00938_28/120 #election See also: John Ne...