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Events from the year 1788 in Canada.
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Royal assent is coming for bill liquidating Loyalist claims, which amount to almost £1.9 million in property and more than £75,000 in income[6]
It is right and just that Britain sacrificed Loyalists' property for national well-being, and that they should be compensated for their loss[7]
Parliament is likely to investigate "the slave trade, so long a disgrace to every civilized people concerned in it"[8]
Text of act governing trade between British North American and Caribbean possessions and United States of America[9]
Commons debates whether Caribbean colonies can rely on Canada and Nova Scotia to supply them or must also have trade with U.S.A.[10]
British government resolves to give "utmost support" to new North American settlements by importing ship building materials from there[11]
Gov. Gen. Lord Dorchester reports "Upper Country Trade" merchants dispense "profuse credits" and find fur prices high at home but low in London[12]
Government surveyor seeks 100 subscribers for large-scale Gulf of St. Lawrence chart covering Cape Ray to Sept-Îles to Saint John and Canso[13]
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]
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]
Settlers to apply through local deputy surveyors general for land at or near Lac Saint-François, Ottawa River, Kingston, Toronto, Niagara and Detroit[29]
Four new districts (Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nassau and Hesse) established between Lac Saint-François and western limit of Canada[30]
Widow of Loyalist dead soon after their 1788 arrival with 11 children is "Obliged to bind out some of her Children and suffer with the Others"[31]
Butler's Rangers member's wartime wounds include one that never healed, for which he "begs the benefit of one of his Majesty's Hospitals"[32]
Legislative Council considers offer of portage service at Toronto Carrying Place as part of connection between Lake Ontario and Georgian Bay[33]
Dorchester reports on Indigenous affairs, including some involving Joseph Brant, whom people at Grand River are "much dissatisfied with"[34]
Lake Huron map describes Bruce Peninsula as "exceedingly dangerous for Boats or Canoes to go around" because of lack of landing places[35]
Map: Toronto and harbour with lots, common, water depths etc., plus road to "Lake La Clie" (Lac aux Claies, now Lake Simcoe)[36]
"Public emergency" extends importation into Nova Scotia of U.S. livestock, bread, various grains, some kinds of lumber etc.[37]
"A Farmer" recalls Halifax's prosperity before 1761 reduced to "unprofitability" by 1772, then revived by 1783 but now lagging again[38]
List of 22 sawmills (including all of 4 in Truro) built 1786-7 with support of £20 government bounty[39]
Petitioner seeks Duke of York's support for grant of Nova Scotia ore bodies his association has found, promising 20% share of profits[40]
"Loyal American refugee" Anglican leaders in Digby tell bishop they have not built church because they spend all they have on homes and lands[41]
Grand jury formally urges Court of Quarter Sessions to prevent any repeat of disorder and fatal violence in recent Halifax election[42]
"Swarm of negroes, amounting to two or 3000" is looking for jobs, having neglected land allotments and "every encouragement to improve them"[43]
"Indentures of a Negro Girl, aged about twelve Years," are for sale; she is "remarkably affable and handy in tending Children"[44]
Writer says minister who enslaves "girl" supports slave trade "in all the cruel and murderous treatment that slaves have ever endured"[45]
Annapolis Loyalist wills three "Negro Girl Slave[s]" (Clarinda, Silvia and Bella) to his daughters Phebe, Mary and Jane, respectively[46]
Widow's will grants "full Freedom and discharge from all Servitude as Slaves" to Black woman Rose, mulatto Agatha and Black man John Bulkley[47]
Painting: Black woodcutter at Shelburne[48]
Advertisement for various goods says payment accepted in skins, furs, well-cured dried and pickled fish, lumber, flaxseed and other N.S. products[49]
London warehouse can access "ships for Exportation, Cask and Bottled Porter and all Sorts of Country Ale and Beer" for Halifax merchants[50]
Academy to open near Windsor with Latin School (tuition £4/year) and English and Mathematical School (£3/yr.), plus room and board (£15/yr.)[51]
Captain Sterling advertises his Halifax school to teach young gentlemen branches of navigation, of which he is master in theory and practice[52]
Bishop of Nova Scotia to deliver sermon "for the Purpose of Cloathing the poor Children who are educated in the Sunday Schools of this town"[53]
Profile of New Brunswick is long on praise and short on detail, with exception of dispute with U.S.A. over St. Croix River border[54]
Using weir, net etc. in any river, cove or creek outside authorized places will draw fine of £10 or £20 (2nd offence) or £50 (further offences)[55]
Following complaint by sachem, Lt. Gov. Carleton forbids "all persons whatever to settle or occupy" lands of Indigenous people at Richibucto[56]
Mrs. Cottnam's Saint John boarding school teaches young ladies grammar, reading "with propriety," writing (spelling, correctness and hand) etc.[57]
Two missionaries "under the immediate patronage of[...]the Countess of Huntingdon" are to distribute bibles free to Saint John poor people[58]
Quakers in England have sent £500 worth of clothing, tools, cash etc. "to their brethren in this province" (with same amount to Nova Scotia)[59]
Edward Winslow describes sort of woman he and his wife want for teaching their children and "superintending the affairs of a family"[60]
Traders coming from northwest coast of North America sell furs at much lower prices than expected in glutted Chinese market[61]
John Meares' visit to Maquilla and his people in Friendly Cove[62]
Print: schooner North West America launched in Nootka Sound (September 20, 1788)[63]
Mathematical problem for students to solve involves rate and number of revolutions of two "Planets" (satellites) in Earth orbit[64]
Chancellor of the Exchequer tells House of Commons that Newfoundland produced record 200,000 quintals of fish in 1787[65]
To protect creditors, anyone leaving Cape Breton Island must first post notice of that for 3 weeks and obtain pass from government[66]
"Induce them to throw themselves into the Arms of Great Britain" - Loyalist John Connolly's effort to engage people in District of Kentucky[67]
Joseph Amos and 31 Mashpee people of Cape Cod petition Massachusetts General Court for land and rights, or they might move to Nova Scotia[68]
Saint John schooner wrecked in gale (nor'easter?) off Wilmington, North Carolina, with woman and 3 children washed overboard and drowned[69]
Gov. Gen. Lord Dorchester plans to establish 2 settlements in northern Canada for communication with James Bay, and possibly colony of convicts[70]
"Existence is contemptible without its sweets - and those sweets of our existence, are our liberties" - call-to-arms issued and seized in Paris[71]
"The blow so long meditated is at length struck - and the horrors of civil war are spreading with rapidity throughout many parts of France"[72]
France assessed: "The flame of revolt[...]will yet break forth with irresistible rage, and in the end extinguish her monarchy"[73]
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