Monarch
A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...
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George III
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Br ...
Governor of Nova Scotia
The following is a list of the governors and lieutenant governors of Nova Scotia. Though the present day office of the lieutenant governor in Nova Scotia came into being only upon the province's entry into Canadian Confederation in 1867, the po ...
Molyneux Shuldham, 1st Baron Shuldham
Admiral Molyneux Shuldham, 1st Baron Shuldham ( – 30 September 1798) was an officer of the British Royal Navy. He served for a time as colonial governor of Newfoundland.
Family and early life
Molyneux Shuldham was born in Ireland c. 1717, a ...
Coppermine River
The Coppermine River is a river in the North Slave and Kitikmeot regions of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Canada. It is long. It rises in Lac de Gras, a small lake near Great Slave Lake, and flows generally north to Coronation Gulf, a ...
to
Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans. It spans an area of approximately and is known as the coldest of all the oceans. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, a ...
.
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HBC
HBC or HbC may refer to:
Companies and organizations
* Halton Borough Council, England
* Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, the state-owned radio and television broadcaster for Greece
* Hokkaido Broadcasting, Japan
* Houston Boychoir, Texas, US
* ...
Mathey Cocking, to Blackfeet country west of Eagle Hills.
* The Hudson's Bay Company opens
Cumberland House
Cumberland House was a mansion on the south side of Pall Mall in London, England. It was built in the 1760s by Matthew Brettingham for Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany and was originally called York House. The Duke of York died in 1767 a ...
James Cook
James Cook (7 November 1728 Old Style date: 27 October – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean an ...
and
George Vancouver
Captain George Vancouver (22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798) was a British Royal Navy officer best known for his 1791–1795 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of what a ...
explore the northwest coast of America.
* The Yorkshire emigration begins with the arrival of 62 passengers aboard ''The Duke of York''.
1709
In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Friday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Battle of St. John's: The French capture St. John' ...
)
Historical documents
Solicitor General suggests rules affecting government, religion (including
Jesuits
The Society of Jesus ( la, Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuits (; la, Iesuitæ), is a religious order (Catholic), religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rom ...
), property and justice, as well as agreements under French regime
With no Quebec "plan of laws" submitted, former attorney general Francis Maseres says "every thing relating to that province seems to be in suspense"
Nearly 60 Quebec City "subscribers" agree to weigh Portugal gold coins received and deduct uniform amount from value of any that have been debased
Dangerous fire spreading from Quebec City seminary is stopped by effectiveness of garrison soldiers, well-supplied " engines" and alert citizens
Soldier of 52nd Regiment warns public not to accommodate his wife, "Eloped ..nd, as I am inform'd, is living with .. Soldier in the 60th Regiment"
Musician Guillaume de Vaut-Court of Paris, performing in Upper-Town, retails his compositions of "Simple Counter-point" and music for concerts to hire
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...
couple Deborah Cuffy, "
negro
In the English language, ''negro'' is a term historically used to denote persons considered to be of Black African heritage. The word ''negro'' means the color black in both Spanish and in Portuguese, where English took it from. The term can be ...
free woman," and Irishman John Carroll told by
magistrates
The term magistrate is used in a variety of systems of governments and laws to refer to a civilian officer who administers the law. In ancient Rome, a '' magistratus'' was one of the highest ranking government officers, and possessed both judici ...
to "take each other in our presence, which they did"
Notice that Black woman named "Thursday" is missing in Halifax, where "her Master" John Rock offers $2 reward plus costs for her return
Quebecker will teach "
Small Sword
The small sword or smallsword (also court sword, Gaelic: or claybeg, French: or dress sword) is a light one-handed sword designed for thrusting which evolved out of the longer and heavier rapier of the late Renaissance. The height of the small ...
, Cut & Thrust, after the best completest manner," as well as French and "Dancing after the newest and best Mode"
Because of limited transportation in region of Campobello and
Passamaquoddy
The Passamaquoddy ( Maliseet-Passamaquoddy: ''Peskotomuhkati'') are a Native American/First Nations people who live in northeastern North America. Their traditional homeland, Peskotomuhkatik'','' straddles the Canadian province of New Brunswick ...
,
justices of the peace
A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower or ''puisne'' court, elected or appointed by means of a commission ( letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the sa ...
Molyneux Shuldham
Admiral Molyneux Shuldham, 1st Baron Shuldham ( – 30 September 1798) was an officer of the British Royal Navy. He served for a time as colonial governor of Newfoundland.
Family and early life
Molyneux Shuldham was born in Ireland c. 1717, a ...
governor of Newfoundland and Labrador from
Hudson Strait
Hudson Strait (french: Détroit d'Hudson) links the Atlantic Ocean and Labrador Sea to Hudson Bay in Canada. This strait lies between Baffin Island and Nunavik, with its eastern entrance marked by Cape Chidley in Newfoundland and Labrador and ...
to St.-Jean River near Anticosti Island, plus it and Magdalen Islands
Inuit
Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories ...
in London stunned at first, but "admiration increased in proportion" to their understanding of "the use, beauty, and mechanism of what they saw"
"Tumbling over each other in glorious confusion" - George Cartwright plays games with Inuit in Labrador, including threading-the-needle and
leapfrog
Leapfrog is a children's game in which players vault over each other's stooped backs.
History
Games of this sort have been called by this name since at least the late sixteenth century.William Johnson satisfies
Mississaugas
The Mississauga are a subtribe of the Anishinaabe-speaking First Nations peoples located in southern Ontario, Canada. They are closely related to the Ojibwe. The name "Mississauga" comes from the Anishinaabe word ''Misi-zaagiing'', meaning "hose ...
after they complain about "David Ramsey, an Indian trader," who killed several of their people near Niagara
Detroit
Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at th ...
commandant Philip Dejean praised for "unwearied endeavours" to bring confessed killer of merchant at Detroit to face justice in Quebec City
"Indian Leaders" retain respect of both
Hudson's Bay Company
The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; french: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, HBC now owns and operates retail stores in Canada. The company's namesake business div ...
and Indigenous people with displays of influence and bouts of intensive begging
"She built the hut in which we found her" - Resourceful Dogrib woman survives alone for months after escaping
Athabascans
Athabaskan (also spelled ''Athabascan'', ''Athapaskan'' or ''Athapascan'', and also known as Dene) is a large family of indigenous languages of North America, located in western North America in three areal language groups: Northern, Pacific Co ...
(Note: "savages" used)
"Had the vanity to think that I could have kept pace" - Snowshoe speedster Samuel Hearne is no match for swiftness of
bison
Bison are large bovines in the genus ''Bison'' (Greek: "wild ox" (bison)) within the tribe Bovini. Two extant and numerous extinct species are recognised.
Of the two surviving species, the American bison, ''B. bison'', found only in North Ame ...
running in deep snow
Royal Society
The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...
member
Member may refer to:
* Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon
* Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set
* In object-oriented programming, a member of a class
** Field (computer science), entries in ...
notes Hudson Bay
sturgeon
Sturgeon is the common name for the 27 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae. The earliest sturgeon fossils date to the Late Cretaceous
The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretace ...
,
burbot
The burbot (''Lota lota'') is the only gadiform (cod-like) freshwater fish
Freshwater fish are those that spend some or all of their lives in fresh water, such as rivers and lakes, with a salinity of less than 1.05%. These environments di ...
, " gwiniad" (called "tickomeg" locally) "and a new fish called the Sucker at Hudson's Bay"
"New voyage which is intended to be made to the South Seas" is expected to throw new light on discovery of
Northwest Passage
The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The eastern route along the Arct ...
"November 10" The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 374 (March 5, 1772), 2nd pg. (See als "March 27" report (2nd pg.) that Major (Robert?) Rogers will be sent "in pursuit of the northwest passage") Accessed 9 July 2022
References
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...