1801 in Canada
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Events from the year 1801 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
- Parliament of Lower Canada: 3rd (starting January 8)
- Parliament of Upper Canada: 3rd (starting May 28)
Governors
Events
- David Thompson fails to cross Rocky Mountains.
- Alexander Mackenzie's Voyages to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans published in London.
- Mackenzie knighted in honor of his explorations.
- Shipbuilding has become an important industry in Canada.
- Two ships, the Sarah and the Dove, arrive at Upper Canada carrying 700 passengers from Lochaber, Scotland from the Cameron and Fraser clans.
- Cassidy's Ltd. is established, third oldest company closed its doors in 2000
Births
- January 18 â James Evans, missionary and linguist (d.1846)
- March 11 â William Henry Draper, politician, lawyer, and judge (d. 1877)
- May 31 â Robert Rankin, timber merchant and shipowner (d. 1870)
Full date unknown
- Edward Feild, Church of England clergyman, inspector of schools, bishop of Newfoundland (d.1876)
- Wilson Ruffin Abbott, businessman and landowner (d.1876)
- Shanawdithit, the last known survivor of the Beothuks (d.1829)
Deaths
- December 28 â Samuel Holland, army officer, military engineer, surveyor, office holder, politician, and landowner (b.1728)[2]
Historical documents
Proclamation announces ceasefire in war between United Kingdom and France and requires return of vessels taken in following 5 months off North America[3]
"The Admiralty Board has given orders for the general introduction of the cow pox into the Navy"[4]
Lower Canada
Trois-Rivières wants to hire teacher and set up school to teach two "indispensably necessary" languages and "first principles" of sciences[5]
New "Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning" is to set up free school in any township or parish, with inhabitants providing schoolhouse[6]
Gazette printer has for sale "the Encyclopedia Britannica, the latest edition, elegantly bound in Calf, gilt and lettered, price £40"[7]
British society's awards to hemp growers in Lower Canada include first prize (gold medal or 50 guineas) for largest acreage of hemp production[8]
Corporation is created to supply Montreal area "with good and wholesome Water," with penalties set for "annoying the water" in springs and reservoirs[9]
Government may support by grants to religious communities foundlings and persons jobless by "a temporary or lasting derangement of intellect"[10]
Because barring testimony from people who are third cousins or closer in relation often impedes civil justice, cousins-german is new such criterion[11]
Call for contractors to build replacement bridge over Jacques-Cartier River, spanning 60 feet French and with 16 feet French width[12]
Women guilty of high treason or of committing or counselling petit treason are to be hanged (instead of former penalty: death by burning)[13]
Eighteen-year-old man kills woman and her daughter ("seven months gone with child by him") with axe; suffering 4 blows, daughter dies 2 days later[14]
François Blanchet is elected to American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia along with two Swedish physicians and New York politician[15]
"Wanted a young girl of about 13 or 14 years, belonging to English parents, to attend upon Children in a decent family"[16]
Montreal's ancient and crumbling walls are to be replaced with streets, squares etc.[17]
Trois-Rivières resident provides brief history of House of Brunswick-Lüneburg out of "profound respect due to His Majesty"[18]
Cape Diamond Brewery can deliver porter, burton and mild ale and table and small beer in hogsheads and other barrel sizes[19]
Upper Canada
Lt. Gov. Peter Hunter praises "zeal and liberality" of Assembly in promoting hemp cultivation, "so strongly recommended to us by our Parent State"[20]
Same duties are to be paid for goods imported from U.S.A. as are charged on goods from Britain[21]
For their "comfort" and "better regulation," no rum or spirits should be sold or bartered to "Moravian Indians" on Thames River (Orford Township)[22]
Local authorities are to establish market in Kingston "where butchers meat, butter, eggs, poultry, fish, and vegetables shall be exposed to sale"[23]
Nova Scotia
"Long wished-for [bank in Halifax] is pregnant with many advantages to the commercial interests of the Province"[24]
Joint legislature committee's questionnaire collects information on Indigenous people "for us to form some plan for the settlement of the Indians"[25]
"Engineers have been sent out to Halifax[...]to construct two docks in that port as speedily as possible for the reception of 74[-]gun ships"[26]
Commissioners of poor in Halifax area are to keep males "picking oakum or rasping wood" and females making clothes, spinning, knitting, weaving etc.[27]
Before their trial, father and son give their stories of events leading to death of Black woman Jude (and are acquitted of murder charge)[28]
Slave owner sells for £39 "certain Negro boy named Jack [who was born in my house to parents who are] both my property"[29]
John Wiswall writes to missionary society his plans for increasing glebe farm income by clearing more land and renting out projected house and barn[30]
Woman's words of faith include "let us fear God for his power, trust him for his wisdom, love him for his goodness, praise him for his greatness[....]"[31]
Simeon Perkins regrets departure of brother ("not very likely We Shall ever See each other again") and woman who nursed family through smallpox[32]
Painting: view of Halifax[33]
New Brunswick
Inflation's effect on middle class is especially hard on Loyalists with fixed incomes not increased since 1783 and only enough to barely feed families[34]
Call for contractor(s) to deliver to Saint John harbour 300 masts (with no less than 22-inch diameters), yards and bowsprits in following May[35]
Noille Bernard, Thomas Squatehan and 16 other Wolastoqiyik, "destitute of land," request land grant in Tobique-Restigouche area (note: "savages" used)[36]
Request to Jonathan Odell to aid Indigenous people who are obstructed from travelling on Tabusintac River or fishing for salmon or eels on it[37]
Odell orders removal of Little Southwest Miramichi River fish net harming Mi'kmaq (some of whom have "made considerable improvements as Planters")[38]
If unable to support themselves, any jailed debtor may after 14 days apply to have their creditor provide them "weekly maintenance"[39]
Saint John government authorized to put tax on dogs of no more than 5 shillings per year per dog to be "applied for the support of the Poor"[40]
Armed brig sails to find French privateer, and it is "to the honor of the Inhabitants of this City" that so many quickly volunteered to be crew[41]
Seamen of John Black & Co. of Saint John have deserted and $30 reward for each is offered to informant(s), whose names can be kept secret[42]
New book of British American sacred music includes "principles of Vocal Music in a plain and concise manner" and psalm and hymn tunes[43]
"Rags! Rags! Rags! Cash or Books given for clean Linen and Cotton Rags at [Gazette printer's] Office"[44]
Western interior
Alexander Mackenzie says "very great and essential advantages may be derived by extending our trade from one sea to the other" (Note: "savage" used)[45]
Map: Edition of Siksika chief Akutkomikimaan's map of Rocky Mountain Indigenous people that sketches their locations, mountains and rivers[46]
Hudson's Bay Company
Kitternawaggan and brother bring Moose Factory more than 100 made beaver, having "dextriously evaded" Canadian traders on their way down river[47]
Indigenous people add 11 deer to 2,000 lbs. of venison in store at York Factory; "I hope [it] will set want at defiance for this Winter"[48]
York jobs include 11 men hunting and fishing, 15 men making firewood and timbers in woods, and 3 tailors making clothing for "English and Ind[ian]s"[49]
Elsewhere
Canadians should try "the pure and free air of the United States" to escape "overbearing tyranny" in social class dominated Upper and Lower Canada[50]
Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, "decidedly attached to the present Republican government in France," are U.S. President and Vice President[51]
William Henry Harrison tells Jefferson goods are brought from Canada via Illinois River into Louisiana and smuggled into U.S.A.[52]
Detroit Moravian missionary says "no Indian understands (how) to trade" and explains how deals are affected by prices and grain pests[53]
Certificate: Detroit Masonic lodge declares Master Mason William Shaw fit to join any Masonic body[54]