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Events from the year 1788 in Canada.

## Incumbents

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* Monarch: George III[1]

### Governors

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* Governor of the Canadas: Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
* Governor of New Brunswick: Thomas Carleton
* Governor of Nova Scotia: John Parr
* Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: John Elliot
* Governor of St. John's Island: Edmund Fanning

## Events

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* Attorney-General Monk and Solicitor-General Williams are of opinion that, as the Jesuits have no civil existence as a Canadian corporation, their estates accrue to the Crown.
* Ontario is divided into five districts,[2] under English law.

## Births

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* January 1 – Peter Warren Dease, HBC officer and Arctic explorer (d.1863)[3]
* October 14 – Sir Edward Sabine, soldier and scientist (d.1883)[4]
* December 31 – Alexander Rankin, timber merchant, justice of the peace, politician, and office holder (d.1852)[5]

## Deaths

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## Historical documents

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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]

### Lower Canada

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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]

### Upper Canada

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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]

### Nova Scotia

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"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]

### New Brunswick

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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]

### Pacific Coast

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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]

### Elsewhere

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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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29. ^ "Surveyor-General's Office, Quebec, 7th July, 1788," The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 1196 (July 17, 1788), pg. 3. (See also details (PDF pg. 49) of land allotment procedure) Accessed 1 June 2023
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32. ^ "Bowman, Adam," Land Petitions of the Niagara Settlers "Boughner to Bowman" Accessed 5 June 2023
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44. ^ "To Be Sold," The Nova-Scotia Gazette, and the Weekly Chronicle Vol. XVIII, No. 1151 (April 29, 1788), Page 2 of 2 (righthand page, centre column). (See clarification in similar ad (front page) that term of servitude of indentured girl is for sale) Accessed 23 May 2023
45. ^ James MacGregor, A Letter to a Clergyman Urging him to set free a Black Girl he held in Slavery (1788), pg. 5 (PDF pg. 9). Accessed 30 May 2023
46. ^ "Will of Joseph Totten of Annapolis" (March 12, 1788), Nova Scotia Archives. Accessed 5 June 2023
47. ^ "Will of Ann Cosby (née Winniett) of Annapolis Royal" (March 14, 1788), Nova Scotia Archives. Accessed 30 May 2023
48. ^ William Booth, "A Black Wood Cutter at Shelburne Nova Scotia 1788" Nova Scotia Archives. Accessed 30 May 2023
49. ^ "John Black, and Co.," The Saint John Gazette, and the Weekly Advertiser Vol. III, Numb. 122 (September 12, 1788), Page 1 of 3. Accessed 22 May 2023
50. ^ "Fell Parker at his Commissions Warehouse[....]," The Nova-Scotia Gazette, and the Weekly Chronicle Vol. XVIII, No. 1172 (December 2, 1788), Page 1 of 2 (lefthand page, centre column). Accessed 26 May 2023
51. ^ John Parr and 4 others, "The Managers appointed[....]" (September 22, 1788), The Nova-Scotia Gazette, and the Weekly Chronicle Vol. XVIII, No. 1172 (September 23, 1788), Page 2 of 2 (lefthand page, right column). (See also The Nova-Scotia Gazette, and the Weekly Chronicle (Page 3 of 3 (righthand page, left column) for opening ceremony and details of seminary) Accessed 25 May 2023
52. ^ "To the Public" (June 17, 1788), The Nova-Scotia Gazette, and the Weekly Chronicle Vol. XVIII, No. 1160 (July 1, 1788), Page 2 of 2 (lefthand page, right column). Accessed 23 May 2023
53. ^ "On Sunday next[...], a Charity Sermon[....]," The Nova-Scotia Gazette, and the Weekly Chronicle Vol. XVIII, No. 1182 (December 2, 1788), Page 2 of 2 (righthand page, centre column). (See also note (Page 2 of 2 (righthand page, centre column)) reporting almost £45 collected) Accessed 26 May 2023
54. ^ "Progress of New Brunswick" (1788), Winslow Papers; A.D. 1776-1826, pgs. 353-5 (PDF pg. 359). Accessed 12 May 2023
55. ^ "An Act for Regulating the Fisheries in the different Rivers, Coves, and Creeks of this Province" (1788), 28 George III, Chapter 6, British North American Legislative Database, 1758-1867. Accessed 19 May 2023
56. ^ "1a; 1788: June 28; Prohibition to settle[....]," Indian Affairs Documents University of New Brunswick Archives. Accessed 2 June 2023
57. ^ "Education for young Ladies," The Nova-Scotia Gazette, and the Weekly Chronicle Vol. XVIII, No. 1183 (December 9, 1788), Page 2 of 2 (righthand page, centre column). Accessed 26 May 2023
58. ^ "St. John, (New Brunswick) May 27," The Nova-Scotia Gazette, and the Weekly Chronicle Vol. XVIII, No. 1157 (June 10, 1788), Page 2 of 2 (righthand page, left column). Accessed 23 May 2023
59. ^ "St. John, (New-Brunswick) Sept. 12," The Saint John Gazette, and the Weekly Advertiser Vol. III, Numb. 122 (September 12, 1788), Page 2 of 3 (righthand page, left column). Accessed 22 May 2023
60. ^ Letter of Edward Winslow (April 19, 1788), Winslow Papers; A.D. 1776-1826, pgs. 356-8 (PDF pg. 364). Accessed 12 May 2023
61. ^ George Dixon, A Voyage Round the World; but More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America[...,] The Second Edition (1789), pgs. 300-04 Accessed 29 May 2023
62. ^ John Meares, Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789 from China to the North West Coast of America (1789), Chaps. IX-XI (pgs. 108-33). (See also summary of Meares visit in his 1790 memorial) Accessed 29 May 2023
63. ^ "The Launch of the northwest America at Nootka Sound, British Columbia, 1788" (1790), Toronto Public Library Digital Archive. Accessed 2 June 2023
64. ^ Philomathematicus, "To the Printer" (January 1, 1788), The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 1169 (January 10, 1788), pg. 3. (See also answer of "Tommy Thumb, aged eight" in January 24 Gazette (pg. 3)) Accessed 31 May 2023
65. ^ "London; House of Commons; May 5," The Nova-Scotia Gazette, and the Weekly Chronicle Vol. XVIII, No. 1163 (July 22, 1788), Page 2 of 2 (lefthand page, centre column). Accessed 25 May 2023
66. ^ "An Ordinance to prevent Persons leaving this Island or its Dependencies without first having obtained a Pass for that purpose" (April 10, 1788), 28 George III, Chapter 1, British North American Legislative Database, 1758-1867. Accessed 19 May 2023
67. ^ Footnote 1, Letter to George Washington (December 18, 1788), U.S. National Archives. Accessed 18 May 2023
68. ^ "Petition of the Mashpee Indians to the Massachusetts General Court" (July 30, 1788), The Native Northeast Portal. Accessed 18 May 2023
69. ^ "Extract of a Letter from North Carolina, October 25," The Nova-Scotia Gazette, and the Weekly Chronicle Vol. XVIII, No. 1184 (December 16, 1788), Page 2 of 2 (righthand page, centre column). (See also story ("Boston, November 13," Page 2 of 2 (righthand page, centre column)) of Saint John sloop keeled over off New England, possibly in same storm) Accessed 26 May 2023
70. ^ "September 2; Lord Dorchester[....]," The Nova-Scotia Gazette, and the Weekly Chronicle Vol. XVIII, No. 1178 (November 4, 1788), Page 2 of 2 (righthand page, centre column). Accessed 25 May 2023
71. ^ "London, June 14," The Saint John Gazette, and the Weekly Advertiser Vol. III, Numb. 122 (September 12, 1788), Page 2 of 3 (lefthand page, right column). Accessed 22 May 2023
72. ^ "London, June 24; A Private Messenger arrived yesterday at noon from Paris[....]," The Nova-Scotia Gazette, and the Weekly Chronicle Vol. XVIII, No. 1166 (August 12, 1788), Page 2 of 2 (lefthand page, centre column). Accessed 25 May 2023
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