1806 in Canada
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Events from the year 1806 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
Events
- Minor trouble arises after 1806 when a governor attempts to anglicize Lower Canada, but he is able to quell dissent if not to achieve his goal.
- Russian-American Company Company collects otter pelts from Alaska to Spanish California.
- Mungo Park killed by natives on Niger River in Africa.
- On return trip John Colter is released from the Lewis and Clark Expedition to join Forrest Hancock and Joseph Dickson (Dixon) to trap the Yellowstone River.
- Le Canadien, a Quebec nationalist newspaper, is founded.
Births
- April 12 â Peter Rindisbacher, painter (d.1834)
- May 6 â Charles Dewey Day, lawyer, judge and politician (d.1884)
- August 12 â George Ryan, politician (d.1876)
- November 2 â Henry Kellett, officer in the Royal Navy, oceanographer, Arctic explorer (d.1875)
- December 9 â Jean-Olivier Chénier, physician and Patriote (d.1837)
Deaths
- May 31: Louis Dunière, politician (b. 1723)
- July: Robert Gray, merchant sea-captain and explorer (b.1755)
- October 26: John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (b.1752)
- December 31: Deborah Cottnam, schoolmistress and poet (b. c.1725â1728)
Historical documents
For "inhabitants on both sides," U.S. trade with British North America should be free, but U.S. will dominate carrying trade[2]
U.S. Senate wants return of trade goods that British confiscated as well as "arrangement" over impressment of U.S. sailors[3]
Earl of Selkirk argues settlement of Highland emigrants in British North America (not in U.S.A.) is good for colonists and colonies[4]
Salem newspaper names Canada-U.S.A. road links as communications that will "accelerate the settlements in these countries"[5]
"W. Wilberforce" and "G. Sharp" sponsor plan for "a comprehensive system of Improvement" for Indigenous in British North America[6]
Michigan rumours of attack by Indigenous people probably meant to scare off trade rivals, and use big trade gathering as pretext[7]
Reading Declaration of Independence on July 4th "breathes envy, hatred, strife, malice and all uncharitableness" between nations at peace[8]
Lower Canada
"This great cause of humanity" - British physician John Ring details extent of cowpox vaccination against smallpox in Lower Canada[9]
In Quebec City, business has "been laid aside[...]to give room for demonstrations of joy for the Victory [at Trafalgar]"[10]
Part of Quebec convoy to Britain burned by French; 2 troop transports escape, but 6 merchantmen "left pursued by the enemy"[11]
Tips on growing corn, "an article of great importance to the cultivators of this Province" because so much of it has to be imported[12]
Why House of Assembly replaced straight land tax with proportional tax based on varying agricultural value of land[13]
Assembly has Montreal merchant dinner toastmaster and Montreal Gazette editor who published toasts arrested for libelling House[14]
House of Assembly orders Quebec Mercury editor's arrest by sergeant-at-arms for publishing account of House proceedings[15]
British ambassador to U.S.A. relates frustrating case of North West Company goods seized by Michilimackinac customs office[16]
John Quincy Adams at gathering with Canadians "Mr. Shaw" and "Mr. M'Gillivray" (possibly Angus Shaw and William McGillivray)[17]
Bridges and roads planned: Quebec City to Connecticut River; Trois-Rivières to Hereford; and through Hatley to Richelieu River[18]
£1,000 for removing "impediments" in Lachine Rapids is to be matched for further work there and toward Lake St. Francis[19]
"A Man left a Widower with a Family of Eight Small Children, for all of whom he [cannot] provide, [will place] out some of them[....]"[20]
Woman with minor son, "sole surviving issue of her mariage," wants "all persons indebted to his Sucession to pay immediately"[21]
Counterfeiters of U.S. bank notes in Montreal arrested and their paper supplier offered immunity if he turns King's evidence[22]
Protestant missionary calls Catholics "very kind to strangers [but] involved in the thick darkness of superstition and ignorance"[23]
Newspaper Le Canadien launched with motto "Notre foi, notre langue, nos institutions (our faith, our language, our institutions)"[24]
Dr. Blanchet to begin series of lectures on chemistry (gasses etc.) and geography ("Mountains, Mines, Petrifications, Lakes" etc.)[25]
Note on destroyed Trois-Rivières Ursuline convent praises nuns running hospitals and educating "the female part of the society"[26]
"Just arrived[...]Madeira wine, Spanish wine[...], Cogniac Brandy, Holland's Geneva,[...]Martinique crème Cordials [etc.]"[27]
Deputy Commissary General wants proposals to supply "[3,000] gallons of proof West India rum"[28]
Ad notes "life of drudgery and anxiety led by the sons and daughters of Thespis" suffering "fickle fortune's severest frowns"[29]
Touring artist informs ladies and gentlemen of his portrait painting (miniature to "as large as life"), paper profiles, art lessons etc.[30]
Painting: view of Quebec City in distance from downriver near north bank[31]
Upper Canada
John Norton blames presents and encouragement from Indian Affairs for opposition in Six Nations to promoting "general good"[32]
Joseph Brant urges Assembly to make Six Nations reserve "our own property" and to not let government "curtail us of a great part"[33]
Norton sees "increasing propensity" to raise cattle, which "from the great decrease of wild animals[...]becomes very necessary"[34]
Lawyer shows new lieutenant governor Francis Gore zeal for constitution that "neither innovation can impair nor anarchy deform"[35]
Brant asks to be allowed to give customary welcome with "leading chiefs and principal warriors" of Six Nations to Lt. Gov. Gore[36]
For £1,000, Mississaugas sell 85,000 acres just west of Toronto to Crown (excepting land and fishing rights on 4 watercourses)[37]
Efforts to have escaped slaves returned from Michigan Territory are refused by its governor and judiciary as beyond their power[38]
Moravian missionaries blame "rum-traders [for] several unpleasant things [that] created much disturbance" at Fairfield mission[39]
Methodist preacher Nathan Bangs dreads "a Lukewarm spirit[,] only a dead weight to those who would be alive to God"[40]
Province is to pay £400 for equipment to teach "the principles of Natural Philosophy, Geography, Astronomy and the Mathematics"[41]
Report of duel between lawyers after one is persuaded to challenge other for making critical remarks about him (challenger dies)[42]
Fashion and behaviour in Upper Canadian society are criticized by man writing from York[43]
Nova Scotia
Subsidies set for grain grown on newly cleared land, for importing salt (for fisheries) and for exporting fish to British West Indies[44]
As French fleet attacks Newfoundland, Halifax hosts military force ("probably near 3,000" says writer who got commission then)[45]
Wilmot Anglican minister has "a numerous congregation," but few communicants and two-thirds are "discenters"[46]
"[Everyone] is at liberty to pay [for] the support of religion [and] I fear learning and religion + morality will be rare plants in N Scotia"[47]
New Brunswick
Ward Chipman tells Edward Winslow he "or any other particular friend" can contribute anonymous opinion pieces for newspaper[48]
"Free Negro" of Norton Parish requests 200-acre tract near Kennebecasis River for himself, wife and child (granted)[49]
Hudson's Bay Company
Moose Factory chief John Thomas says "Canadians" have left Eastmain and will do same at Moose if HBC will drop some posts[50]
Moose asks Fort Albany's help with 130 day food supply; wants to send some men to Albany because few rabbits and fish caught[51]
Daily thaw bad at Churchill because firewood and "Partridge ground" are on river islands, and snow doubles weight of snowshoes[52]
Moose Factory cows go through ice when orders ignored; after 3 hours in water, 1 cow dies and another is warmed up back at post[53]
Western interior
Alexander Mackenzie tells Roderick Mackenzie he must write Northwest history, but will possibly make more enemies than friends[54]
Ojibwe from Lake Vermilion recalls when settlers were no problem, but times have changed and begs lake waters not be poisoned[55]
Traders and Indigenous people going from Pine River to Cross Lake nearly starve "owing to the Countrie being all burnt"[56]
Summary of travels of Lewis and Clark Expedition[57]
Meriwether Lewis warns of "formidable" North West Company expanding from posts on Souris River into Missouri River region[58]
"Saakies" and Potawatomi seek help from Upper Canada against encroachment on their lands from U.S.A. (request deferred)[59]
Elsewhere
Seal nets catch "above 130" seals, keeping more Labrador Inuit around Okak "than have been present for these many years"[60]