August 16 – In response to Loyalist demands, the Crown creates New Brunswick out of Nova Scotia. New Brunswick was then divided into eight counties.
North West Company built up Grand portage as a general summer rendezvous for all companies and free traders, drawing furs from as far as Oregon and the Arctic Circle.
James Cook's journal of his last voyage published in London.
Ward Chipman the Elder, a Massachusetts lawyer, settled in New Brunswick, where he served as solicitor general until 1808.[2]
Butler's Rangers were disbanded in June 1784, and its veterans were given land grants in the Nassau District, now the Niagara region of Ontario, as a reward for their services to the British Crown.
For sale, "a Stout, healthy, young Panis Girl, about 22 years of age,[...]speaks French and English, and is perfectly honest and sober"[16]
For sale, "a Likely healthy NegroWench," 15 or 16, brought up in New York, has had smallpox and "understands all sorts of house work"[17]
Black woman's remaining 7-8 years of indenture is for sale; seller assures any purchaser of her "honesty, sobriety and good temper"[18]
Offer of $14 for escaped "Negro-Man named Ishmael," about 36, missing some front teeth and knuckle of one finger, and passes as "a Free Negro"[19]
"A Negro man named Tight" ran away August 12 and was seen crossing St. Lawrence with Snow (another enslaved Black man) about 1st of September[20]
$30 reward for capture of Kamouraska indented apprentice Thomas Costin ("18[,] looks sulky[,] very slovenly and dirty in his dress")[21]
Charles Nishonoit "of the Penobscot tribe was executed on the road side a little out of St. John's Suburbs" for murder of two travellers[22]
Fundraising for treatment of Quebec City's "Sick Poor [who have been] recommended by the Clergy, Magistrates, or other respectable persons"[23]
Practitioner to lecture on theory and practice of midwifery, as it will employ "elderly women" and is needed in Quebec's "infant settlements"[24]
Trois-Rivière servant with candle causes loss of entire house by fire (except money, plate and papers saved); 53rd Regiment thanked for saving town[25]
Shoe and boot maker from Edinburgh says "as he is a young beginner," he trusts he will be accepted by public, "particularly his country-men"[26]
Attorney's household effects on auction, including chairs and sofa with curtains and slipcovers "to correspond;" various glassware; cabinetry[27]
"Gentlemen of the Army" and Montreal merchants put on "most elegant and splendid Ball," with dancing 7pm-7am paused for supper at 1am[28]
Pianofortes for sale by Mr. Glackemeyer, who also teaches that instrument and guitar, violin, flute and "Singing French and English"[29]
Poem: "Whence this unusual languor o'er my mind?/This chilling stupor that pervades each sense?/Pensive I sit, each active power confin'd[....]"[30]
Assembly asks governor to begin prosecution over all irregular public accounts, otherwise "Abuses of public Trust[...]cannot be put a Stop to"[46]
Assembly agrees to let freeholders observe its proceedings, members take notes on debates, and members' names and votes be recorded[47]
Louisbourg will have "proper persons to work the coal mines, which have long been[...]objects of the first consideration [and] of immense value"[48]
Petition to Assembly from Halifax orphanage keeper asking payment for maintaining "Moor Children" since House of Commons stopped support[49]
"Encreasing population, building and improvements[...]really amazing" - 9,000 in Shelburne, more in Carleton and Parrsboro, and "numerous towns begun"[50]
Benjamin Marston details Shelburne's development in housing and fisheries, and Nova Scotia's natural resources and Indigenous people[51]
Gov. Parr makes grant of 98 warehouse lots on waterfront at Shelburne to scores of men for annual quitrent of 1 farthing per lot[52]
Edward Winslow dismayed by distressed Nova Scotians, "vagrants from the streets of London" and "Blackies" begging him for provisions[53]
Black Pioneers' petition for land asks they be granted "Articles Allowed by Government[...]the same as [for] the Rest of the Disbanded Soldiers"[54]
More than 600 names listed as head of family in Muster Book of Free Blacks at Birchtown settlement[55]
^"[...]An Ordinance," The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 977 (May 13, 1784), pgs. 1-3. Accessed 8 February 2023
^"At the Court at St. James's[....]" (April 16, 1784), The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 982 (June 17, 1784), pg. 2. Accessed 8 February 2023
^John Earl of Stair, "Address to, and Expostulation with, the Public" (1784), pgs. 30-2 Accessed 3 February 2023
^Richard Champion, Considerations on the Present Situation of Great Britain and the United States of America[....], pgs. 107-15 (frames 147-55). Accessed 20 February 2023
^George Chalmers, Opinions on Interesting Subjects of Public Law and Commercial Policy (1784), pgs. 78-9 (PDF pgs. 87-8; see also similar argument for lumber production, and counter argument that Canada can't meet demand; also see reasons Nova Scotia and Canada can supply West Indies with all they want) Accessed 3 February 2023
^"To Be Let" (March 1, 1784), The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 967 (March 4, 1784), pg. 3. Accessed 7 February 2023
^"At the Wharf of Mr. Charles Grant Lower-town[....]," The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 983 (June 24, 1784), pg. 4. Accessed 8 February 2023
^"On the report of a committee[...]to whom was referred a memorial of Mr. Francis Cazeau" (March 1784), Journals of the Continental Congress; Volume XXVI, 1784 pgs. 147-50 (PDF pgs. 153-6), Library of Congress. (See also similar report in this volume (pgs. 260-1) concerning Pierre du Calvet) Accessed 20 February 2023
^"Advertisements; Quebec, 25th February, 1784," The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 967 (March 4, 1784), pg. 2. (See also details (PDF pgs. 18-19) of this process) Accessed 7 February 2023
^"Aug. 14. The terms[....]," The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 1009 (December 23, 1784), pg. 2. Accessed 9 February 2023
^"Advertisements; Whereas[....]" (December 24, 1783), The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 958 (January 1, 1784), pg. 2. Accessed 7 February 2023
^"To Be Sold[....]," The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 986 (July 15, 1784), pg. 2. Accessed 8 February 2023
^"To Be Sold by Private Sale[....]" (May 10, 1784), The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 977 (May 13, 1784), pg. 2. Accessed 7 February 2023
^"To Be Sold[....]," The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 1000 (October 21, 1784), pg. 3. Accessed 9 February 2023
^"Fourteen Dollars Reward" (Montreal, March 1, 1784), The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 968 (March 11, 1784), pg. 3. Accessed 7 February 2023
^"Ran Away" (September 7, 1784), The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 992 (September 9, 1784), pg. 2. Accessed 7 February 2023
^"Ran Away from his Master[....]," The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 1001 (October 28, 1784), pg. 3. Accessed 9 February 2023
^"Quebec, November 11," The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 1003 (November 11, 1784), pg. 3. (See also further details(Page 2 of 2, right column on lefthand page) of Nishonoit's death, and reason (in footnote) for this unusual execution) Accessed 9 February 2023
^"The Public is informed[....]," The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 968 (March 11, 1784), pg. 2. (See also (pg. 3) Quebec Theatre benefit for Hôtel Dieu infirmary) Accessed 7 February 2023
^"Mr. Gill, late Army Surgeon[....]," The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 1007 (December 9, 1784), pg. 3. Accessed 9 February 2023
^"Three-Rivers, February 13," The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 965 (February 19, 1784), pg. 2. (See also further details (pg. 2), particularly "a Negroe man belonging to Mr. Malcolm Fraser") Accessed 7 February 2023
^"Robert Urquhart[....]," The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 988 (July 29, 1784), pg. 3. Accessed 8 February 2023
^"For Sale by Auction[....]," The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 1000 (October 21, 1784), pg. 3 (right column). Accessed 9 February 2023
^"Montreal, 22d. January, 1784," The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 963 (February 5, 1784), pg. 2. Accessed 7 February 2023
^"For Sale, Five elegant Piano Fortes[....]," The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 983 (June 24, 1784), pg. 3. Accessed 8 February 2023
^"Poets Corner; An Ode on Sickness, By a Young Lady," The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 1003 (November 11, 1784), pg. 4. Accessed 9 February 2023
^"From General Haldimand to Sir John Johnson" (March 15, 1784), in Records of Niagara(...)1784-1787 unpaginated (PDF pg. 7; see also (pgs. 11-12) Haldimand staffer's enlargement on subject). Accessed 9 February 2023
^"Extract of a Letter from Colonel John Butler to Major Robert Matthews" (May 8, 1784), in Records of Niagara(...)1784-1787 unpaginated (PDF pg. 13). Accessed 10 February 2023
^"From General Haldimand to Lieut.-Colonel A.S. De Peyster" (March 29, 1784), in Records of Niagara(...)1784-1787 unpaginated (PDF pgs. 9-11; see also (pg. 12) Lord Sydney's views on evacuation). Accessed 9 February 2023
^"From General Haldimand to Lord North; No. 33" (May 12, 1784), in Records of Niagara(...)1784-1787 unpaginated (PDF pgs. 16-17; see also (pg. 25) Haldimand's view that government confirmation of non-evacuation policy will benefit Indigenous people). Accessed 10 February 2023
^"Indian Council at Niagara" (May 22, 1784), in Records of Niagara(...)1784-1787 unpaginated (PDF pgs. 19-20; see also (pg. 35) official notice of land transfer to Six Nations and (pg. 33) British policy to accommodate Indigenous peoples). Accessed 10 February 2023
^"From Reverend John Stuart to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel" (July 17, 1784), in Records of Niagara(...)1784-1787 unpaginated (PDF pgs. 32-3). Accessed 10 February 2023
^"From John Dease to Sir John Johnson" (August 21, 1784), in Records of Niagara(...)1784-1789 unpaginated (PDF pgs. 3-4). Accessed 9 February 2023
^"From John Dease to Sir John Johnson" (September 5, 1784), in Records of Niagara(...)1784-1789 unpaginated (PDF pgs. 5-6; see also (pgs. 6-7) Dease's idea that other priorities (including troops to take possession of Upper Posts) will delay U.S. attention to "an Indian Treaty"). Accessed 9 February 2023
^"Treaty with the Six Nations at Fort Stanwix" (October 22, 1784), in Records of Niagara(...)1784-1789 unpaginated (PDF pgs. 9-10; see also (pgs. 8-9) report from Stanwix that U.S. commissioners dictated treaty terms and U.S. speech (pgs. 221-4) containing terms, and translated notes of "Iroquois chief" who was there). Accessed 9 February 2023
^New York detail Indian Land Cessions in the United States (1899), Library of Congress. Accessed 20 February 2023
^"Extract of a Letter from George Pownall Esqr. Secretary to the Province of Quebec" (November 11, 1784), in Records of Niagara(...)1784-1787 unpaginated (PDF pgs. 37-8). Accessed 10 February 2023
^"Extract from a Letter from General Haldimand to Lieut.-Colonel De Peyster" (November 1784), in Records of Niagara(...)1784-1787 unpaginated (PDF pg. 38). Accessed 10 February 2023
^"Quebec, March 4; Extract of a letter from Halifax dated 16 January, 1784," The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 967 (March 4, 1784), pg. 2. (See also Edward Winslow's observation that energy of newcomers has excited "languid" earlier settlers) Accessed 7 February 2023
^"The establishment of the infant province of New-Brunswick[....]," The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 1001 (October 28, 1784), pg. 2. Accessed 9 February 2023
^"Commissary-General's Office, Fort Howe" (September 15, 1784), The Royal St. John's Gazette, and Nova-Scotia Intelligencer, Vol. I, Numb. XLI (September 23, 1784), Page 3 of 23. (See also adjacent call for small craft owners to ship 2,000 barrels of provisions from Ft. Howe, and report of official overseeing distribution) Accessed 2 February 2023
^"The Petition of Robert Lawson" (February 21, 1784), Black Loyalists in New Brunswick, University of New Brunswick Libraries. Accessed 6 February 2023