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Events from the year 1797 in Canada.
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With Maine–New Brunswick border commission's arrival, writer favourably compares this way of "settling national contests to that of the Bayonet!"[3]
Border commission member Edward Winslow writes in spirit of reconciliation to U.S. friends from before his exile at end of American Revolutionary War[4]
Anyone accused of high treason or misprision or suspicion of high treason or "Treasonable practices" shall be jailed without bail for 1 year[5]
David McLane is convicted of treason after 14-hour trial and sentenced to death (Note: graphic description of method of execution)[6]
Proclamation forbids trespassing on crown land and township clergy reserve lots, and requires unauthorized settlers to vacate them[7]
Two Royal Navy commanders are "much flattered" by masters of 16 merchant ships thanking them for convoy duty "during a long and tedious traverse"[8]
Quebec City library just opened to public is "where books are let to read by the year, half year, quarter, month, or single volume"[9]
Midwife Mrs. Hebert of Lying-in-Hospital London gives evidence of "her ability[,] Judgement and experience" on Montreal medical board examination[10]
Anyone who has, over past 7 years, lived or been subject in any country now at war with Britain can be forced to leave U.C. on 24 hours' notice[11]
"Principal Chiefs, Warriors and People of the Mississague Nation" sell 3,450 acres at western end of Lake Ontario to British for £75 2/6 in goods[12]
Joseph Brant and John Deserontyon negotiate compensation of $1,000 (plus $600 expenses) from New York for Kanien’kéhà:ka lands lost there[13]
Woman's land grants based on her wartime service carrying dispatches between British army units, including "three times thro [sic] the Rebel army"[14]
Militia major's son and daughters, "bred up on a better line of Life," want land grant because only that can make "them Independent & Respectable"[15]
Council president Peter Russell is against idea of granting land to wives of Assembly members because it might appear to be bribery by government[16]
New Law Society of Upper Canada is to maintain order among lawyers and create "learned and honorable body to assist their fellow subjects"[17]
Joseph Brant complains that inability to sell or rent out Grand River lands granted his people makes their future insecure[18]
Wet, cold weather has made growing "Indian corn" not practical, so farmer advises growers to plant buckwheat on sandy soil for almost as good profit[19]
Lt. Gov. John Wentworth reports on "extremely distress'd and perishing State of the Indians," who have lost both potato crop and hunting grounds[20]
Wentworth reports Maroons in Nova Scotia are undisciplined complainers, but can be taught to be productive and successful[21]
After many years on land not granted them, 8 Acadians petition for "Lands + small Marshes" in Guysborough; move is allowed "until further orders"[22]
German language religious books for sale, including hymns used by Protestant Lutheran congregations and psalms used by Reformed Protestants[23]
Lightning from widespread and powerful thunderstorm strikes Granville barn, blowing boards 100 feet upwind and forcing many 1 foot into the ground[24]
Letter-to-the-editor warns of sickness and death caused by quackery of practitioners without least knowledge of medicine[25]
Advertisement promotes Saint John dancing school, instruction in fencing and broadsword and lessons on fortepiano, harpsichord and spinet[26]
Hudson's Bay Company traders reach Assiniboine River via York Factory and Swan River 1 month before North West Company traders can arrive[27]
Fur trader Donald Mackay reports seeing 93 North West Company canoes headed for Grand Portage with more than 125,000 "made beaver"[28]
Joseph Colen describes low stock of food at Fort Severn from "scarcity of game," which necessitates rationing and threatens "Natives" with starvation[29]
As epidemic causes many Labrador Inuit deaths, Moravian missionaries find both their converts and "wild heathen" turning to "sorcerers" for relief[30]
After 2 weeks on Lake Winnipeg (paddling 40+ miles some days), waves swamp Donald Mackay's canoe, but he saves his wife, baby and her sister[31]
"[N]otwithstanding the appearances of peace, almost all the Powers of Europe make preparations for war with the greatest celerity"[32]
Chatham Dockyard is to build 98-gun ship wholly of English oak and with "newest improvements of naval architecture"[33]
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