1765 in Canada

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Events from the year 1765 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

Monarch: George III^[1]

Governors[]

Governor of the Province of Quebec: James Murray
Governor of Nova Scotia: Montague Wilmot
Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Hugh Palliser

Events[]

18 May – Fire destroys one quarter of the town of Montreal, Quebec.^{[citation needed]}
The Stamp Act increases discontent. A Stamp Act Congress meets in New York City to protest the Act.
Reserve system in Canada begins with the provision of a tract of land for the Maliseet tribe.^{[citation needed]}

Births[]

Deaths[]

July 4 – Claude-Godefroy Coquart, missionary (born 1706)

Historical documents[]

Nova Scotian describes Stamp Act unrest in Boston and calm in Halifax^[2]

Gov. James Murray describes difficulty ruling Quebec given hostility among military, magistrates and merchants in Montreal^[3]

Ship-based fishery, source of seamen for wartime, "is now wholly dropt and excluded by Encroachers and Monopolizers" in Newfoundland^[4]

"Fair to the eye [and] grateful to the taste" - Profile of Nova Scotia includes description of cod processing^[5]

"Advantages[...]would be derived from laying open this trade" - Reasons to end Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly^[6]

Huge territories won in Seven Years War will ruin Britain with depopulation and trade rivalry (Note: "savages" used)^[7]

Protestant missionaries in Nova Scotia speak English, French, Mi'kmaw and German (Note: "savages" used)^[8]

"If the English would be more honest, we should be more generous" - Haudenosaunee tell William Johnson they are cheated of their lands^[9]

Servants who desert their employers are liable to work twice length of their absence, unless they can prove they were abused^[10]

Montreal fire of 18 May destroys one-fourth (one-third by value) of city of 7,000, leaving 215 families homeless^[11]

Scottish Jacobite writer has ghosts of Wolfe and Montcalm discuss their final, fatal and flawed campaigns in Seven Years War^[12]

References[]

^ "Kings and Queens of Canada". aem. 11 August 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
^ Archibald Hinshelwood to Joshua Mauger, August 19, 1765, The Gilder Lehrman Collection, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York. Accessed 7 October 2017
^ "(Copy of) Governor Murray's Letter, March 2 1765 to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations," C002/A1 Administration, Province of Quebec 1763-1798, Canadiana Collection, McCord Museum, PDF pgs. 63-72. Accessed 15 January 2021
^ "Copy of Governor Pallisser's [sic Remarks on the present state and Management of the Newfoundland Fishery; dated 18th December, 1765,"] No. 3; Extract from a Representation of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations to His Majesty, relating to the Newfoundland Trade and Fishery[...], pgs. 3-10. Accessed 14 January 2021
^ Robert Rogers, "Acadia, or Nova Scotia," A Concise Account of North America (1765), pgs. 20–22. Accessed 14 January 2021
^ "Chap. XXIX; Hudson's Bay[....,"] An Account of the European Settlements in America; Vol. II; Fourth Edition, pgs. 287-90. Accessed 14 January 2021
^ Cato, Thoughts on a Question of Importance Proposed to the Public (1765). Accessed 15 January 2021
^ "An Abstract of the Charter, and of the Proceedings of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, from the 15th Day of February, 1765, to the 21st Day of February, 1766; Nova Scotia," in A Sermon Preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts[....] (1766), pgs. 16-20. Accessed 14 January 2021 (Note: the Abstract follows pg. 30 of the Sermon)
^ "Extract from the Minutes at a Conference with the Six Nations and Delawares at Johnson Hall" (4 May 1765). Accessed 15 January 2021
^ "An Act for Regulating Servants" (18 June 1765), [Acts at the General Assembly of the province of Nova Scotia], pgs. 70-4. Accessed 14 January 2021
^ "The Case of the Canadians at Montreal Distressed by Fire; Second Edition." Access 14 January 2021
^ Attributed to Chevalier Johnstone ("supposed to have been written about the year 1765"), "A Dialogue in Hades; A Parallel of Military Errors, of Which The French and English Armies Were Guilty, During the Campaign of 1759, in Canada" (Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 1887). Accessed 14 January 2021

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[1] "Kings and Queens of Canada". aem. 11 August 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2021.

[2] Archibald Hinshelwood to Joshua Mauger, August 19, 1765, The Gilder Lehrman Collection, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York. Accessed 7 October 2017

[3] "(Copy of) Governor Murray's Letter, March 2 1765 to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations," C002/A1 Administration, Province of Quebec 1763-1798, Canadiana Collection, McCord Museum, PDF pgs. 63-72. Accessed 15 January 2021

[4] "Copy of Governor Pallisser's [sic Remarks on the present state and Management of the Newfoundland Fishery; dated 18th December, 1765,"] No. 3; Extract from a Representation of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations to His Majesty, relating to the Newfoundland Trade and Fishery[...], pgs. 3-10. Accessed 14 January 2021

[5] Robert Rogers, "Acadia, or Nova Scotia," A Concise Account of North America (1765), pgs. 20–22. Accessed 14 January 2021

[6] "Chap. XXIX; Hudson's Bay[....,"] An Account of the European Settlements in America; Vol. II; Fourth Edition, pgs. 287-90. Accessed 14 January 2021

[7] Cato, Thoughts on a Question of Importance Proposed to the Public (1765). Accessed 15 January 2021

[8] "An Abstract of the Charter, and of the Proceedings of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, from the 15th Day of February, 1765, to the 21st Day of February, 1766; Nova Scotia," in A Sermon Preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts[....] (1766), pgs. 16-20. Accessed 14 January 2021 (Note: the Abstract follows pg. 30 of the Sermon)

[9] "Extract from the Minutes at a Conference with the Six Nations and Delawares at Johnson Hall" (4 May 1765). Accessed 15 January 2021

[10] "An Act for Regulating Servants" (18 June 1765), [Acts at the General Assembly of the province of Nova Scotia], pgs. 70-4. Accessed 14 January 2021

[11] "The Case of the Canadians at Montreal Distressed by Fire; Second Edition." Access 14 January 2021

[12] Attributed to Chevalier Johnstone ("supposed to have been written about the year 1765"), "A Dialogue in Hades; A Parallel of Military Errors, of Which The French and English Armies Were Guilty, During the Campaign of 1759, in Canada" (Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 1887). Accessed 14 January 2021

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