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Events from the year 1782 in Canada.
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Thomas Pownall says Britain needs to defend Quebec and Nova Scotia to supply lumber, fish and livestock to West Indies, and be naval and trade centres[2]
Seneca chiefs expect Crown to give them new homeland after loss of theirs (Note: horrific scalping victim descriptions just above chiefs' message)[3]
Moses Hazen's lengthy plan for invading Canada (Note: "savages" used)[4]
Prisoners released at Montreal report John Johnson taking goods and arms to Indigenous nations on Great Lakes, who are likely "to Streighten our frontier"[5]
Report that Seneca sachem accused British of lying, saying that British have lost war and will sacrifice Seneca, who must look out for themselves[6]
By vote of 194 to 193, House of Commons rejects "motion for an address to his Majesty to put an end to hostilities in America"[7]
Guy Carleton tells Washington that, "if war must prevail, I shall endeavour to render its miseries as light to the people of this continent" as possible[8]
"Remonstrance of the Loyal Refugees at New York to Sir Guy Carleton, on the negociation for a general peace, and craving protection"[9]
Preliminary Britain-U.S.A. peace treaty restores fishing rights, encourages return of loyalists' property and freedom, and prohibits removing "any Negroes"[10]
Lewis Nicola considers republics not as strong as monarchies, and foresees Canada one day becoming monarchy that will "prove too powerful" for U.S.A.[11]
John Adams foresees Britain being "forever at War" with U.S.A. if it retains Canada and Nova Scotia, which would end in Britain's "final Ruin"[12]
"Britain will sustain the expence and America reap the advantage" - Tom Paine says Halifax will be useless after war and Canadian settlers will go south[13]
Preface (1782) to assessment (1774) of Quebec Act hopes Canadians will follow more enlightened Catholic leadership (Note: anti-Catholic statements)[14]
Canada cost British government almost £5.3 million in 1776-1782, more than its import/export trade amount (and some big expenses yet to be accounted)[15]
British defeat of French fleet brings sailors and others parading Quebec City streets, "and the next morning discover'd a good deal of work for the glaziers"[16]
"Our Assembly" was held in new room built by Levy Solomons; "the Country dances began at eight o'clock and continued till two," to satisfaction of all[17]
Daily except Thursdays, 11-2, young ladies to be taught "Writing, Arithmetic, the Rules for Reading with propriety, the English and French Grammars" etc.[18]
Missing German indentured servant, tailor by trade, "has very much the art and behaviour of a sham beau and has a variety of cloaths;" 5 guinea reward[19]
Shoemaker apprentice missing, "had on when he went away a Blanket Coat, light blue Waistcoat and Breeches very dirty, a Check Shirt much wore[....]"[20]
New 2-storey log house at Chambly fit for tavern or shop, with 3 large rooms on first floor, 4 bedrooms on second, plus garret and "good warm cellar"[21]
Single middle-age man wanted who "can comb Hair, cut wood, dress a beef-stake occasionally, receive messages [and give] as little trouble as possible"[22]
Map: Canada from Lake Superior to Estuary of St. Lawrence, and territory from James Bay to Pennsylvania, with numerous rivers and Indigenous groups[23]
Map: St. Lawrence River from Lake Ontario to Anticosti Island, with hazards and other features and detailed navigation instructions[24]
Carleton says 600+ Loyalists moving to Nova Scotia to take up cost-free grants of 600-acres will be "a large accession of strength [and] population"[25]
Agents of Loyalists going to Nova Scotia are to find tract(s) of land free of title dispute, and record aspects of soil, timber, game, rivers etc.[26]
Powder, shot, food and other supplies delivered to needy Mi'kmaq ("poor Indian Woman & family," "Indian family consisting of eight" and "old Indians")[27]
As "detriment to trade, and an encouragement to many idle persons to avoid being employed in useful trades," travelling peddlers must be licensed[28]
Nova Scotia has massive trade deficit with England (approximately 22 to 1) in 1782[29]
People outside Halifax are left too few soldiers to defend them from enemy raids, requiring farmers to either keep watch themselves or hire men at $2/day[30]
"The Americans surprise and pillage the town of Lunenburgh, Nova Scotia"[31]
"The principal settlers on St. John's, Gulf of St. Lawrence, invite the Royal Refugees at New York"[32]
Helen MacDonald tells brother John that she's been extravagant because she was left alone without "rules" and expected brothers would soon return[33]
In peace talks with France, British ambassador is to "point out in the strongest manner the high national value which is set on" Newfoundland fisheries[34]
"St John's is an excellent good Harbour (though narrow in the Entrance)," but don't confuse it with nearby Quiddy Viddy and its hill "called Cuckold's Head"[35]
At York Factory: armourer repairing guns, shipwright and carpenter helving hatchets, tailors making trade clothing, joiner and smith doing odd jobs, etc.[36]
Indigenous people describe "eruption on the skin" raging among their people and causing high mortality in neighbourhood of Cumberland House[37]
French struggle through ice and gales, tides and mud to burn Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Prince of Wales and Fort York (Note: "savages" used)[38]
At Niagara, John Butler says farmers "have done very well" despite lack of blacksmith and provisions, and some Rangers asking to join them with families[39]
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