Attorney general suggests ways (rejected by Gov. Carleton) to mix British law with French laws that are "most necessary to [Canadians'] satisfaction"[3]
Maseres dissents from governor's advice to revive French laws because British goal is "to assimilate [Quebec] in religion, laws, and government"[4]
Board of Trade's recommendations to Privy Council committee for Quebec provincial assembly, justice system, ecclesiastical affairs, and revenue[5]
Bread bakers must commit to baking year-round by laying in flour supply for when poor roads prevent grain delivery, and not halting when profits are low[6]
To be sold: "LikelyNegro Fellow [who] understands Cooking, waiting at Table, and Houshold-work, &c. &c." and speaks English and French[8]
Gabrielle Joncaire says not to buy land swindled from her by her husband, who also imprisoned her and caused her "to make off for New-England"[9]
Call for proposals to supply and/or make repairs to Quebec City buildings, listing items of various types and materials, and standards of workmanship[10]
Surgeon of 8th Regiment at Quebec City, having inoculated 630 people "with the usual Success," assures public recent smallpox death was "Natural"[11]
Chief Massigihash asks Detroit commander for compassion, requesting especially return to them of Ojibwes' "father," Lt. Sinclair; Capt. Turnbull replies[15]
Major Robert Rogers acquitted of all charges, but his "improper and dangerous correspondence" and later notion to escape raised suspicions[16]
Over 100 families gone "to settle themselves on Beaver Island, situated in the middle of Lake Ontario, abounding with the finest furrs of all Canada"[17]
Navy commanders to watch for "great cargoes" of European goods smuggled in French fishing boats to Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Cape Breton[18]
"----- Quine, and Flora a Negro Women [sic], were lately tried, convicted, and sentenced to receive 25 Lashes at the Public Whipping-Post, for stealing"[20]
House of Assembly journal shows progress of bill "for preventing the Exportation of Wheat, Rye, Barley, Flour, Meal, or Pease" during grain shortage[21]
Notice that Earl of Egmont is about to settle his 100,000-acre township on Shubenacadie and Wilmot rivers, which is 15 miles from Halifax[23]
Midwife Eleanor Fallon asks Assembly pay for services to poor women of Halifax, who without her "wou'd be distress'd in a very great degree" (denied)[24]
Halifax man has house of "entertainment" with "Chop-House," baking facility for ladies' orders, stables and slaughterhouse, and large assembly room[25]
New Newfoundland governor will be better than previous, who was of "disservice to the fishery" because of his attachment to initial "false opinion" of it[30]
Newfoundland trader glad he forbid heating turpentine in his fireplace, as it took fire elsewhere, which would be "of Shocking Consequence" for him[31]
Hudson's Bay Company criticized for failing to expand on its initial success by opening opportunity to others for investment and increase of its trade[32]
Having failed in first expedition from Hudson Bay, Samuel Hearne blames "desertion," "embezzlement," and "villany" of Indigenous people with him[33]
Churchill River people at Hudson Bay seem melancholy but good-natured, very honest, "remarkably clever in repartees" and "converse extremely well"[34]
Intense January cold in cabin on Churchill River freezes bedding to bed frame and disturbs sleep hourly with loud cracking of house timbers[35]
^"Montreal, October 2", The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 250 (October 12, 1769), 3rd pg. (See also mid-November news of 42 dying in previous week in Montreal) Accessed 16 June 2022
^"A Draught of An Intended Report of the[...]Governor in Chief and the Council of the Province of Quebec[...]concerning The State of the Laws and the Administration of Justice[....]" (submitted February 27, 1769), Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada, 1759-1791 (1907), pgs. 228-58 (PDF frames 242-72). Accessed 17 June 2022
^"To Be Sold, for no Fault[....]", The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 243 (August 24, 1769), 2nd pg. (See also "Run-away" notice for "Negro Woman, named Susannah") Accessed 16 June 2022
^"Gabrielle Joncaire[....]", The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 233 (June 15, 1769), 3rd pg. Accessed 16 June 2022
^"Whereas there are several Repairs[....]", The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 229 (May 18, 1769), 3rd pg. Accessed 16 June 2022
^"Mr. Latham, Surgeon[....]," The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 215 (February 9, 1769), 3rd pg. (See details in October 6, 1768 Quebec Gazette Note: other mentions include different numbers of inoculated) Accessed 15 June 2022 (See also "We hear from Quebec" that Latham's method "neither confines the Patient to their Houses, nor hinders them from doing their usual Occupations")
^"Montreal, November 13," The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 256 (November 23, 1769), 3rd pg. Accessed 16 June 2022
^(Alexander Cluny), Letter IX, The American Traveller: or, Observations on the Present State[...]of the British Colonies in America (1769), pgs. 46-8 Accessed 6 June 2022
^"Extract of a letter from Ontario, July 7" and "We can assure the Public," The Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser, Vol. I, No. 36 (August 29 - September 4, 1769), pg. 288 Accessed 13 June 2022
^"Detroit, April 29, 1769," The Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser, Vol. I, No. 31 (July 25 - August 1, 1769), pgs. 245-6 (See also "Detroit, April 29" for details of Ojibwe relationship with "Capt. Sinclair" (Note: "savages" used)) Accessed 10 June 2022
^"New York, June 26; Extract from General Orders, New York, May 8," The Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser, Vol. I, No. 29 (July 11–18, 1769), pg. 229 Accessed 10 June 2022 (See also January 12 Quebec Gazette, 2nd pg. for Montreal writer's impression of Rogers' trial)
^"They write from Quebec[....]," The Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser, Vol. I, No. 47 (November 14–21, 1769), pg. 374, right column Accessed 14 June 2022 (Note: There is no island in the middle of Lake Ontario; the name "Beaver Island" is attached to Grand Island in the Niagara River and a large island near the north end of Lake Michigan)
^"April 5; Orders are dispatched[....]," The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 235 (June 29, 1769), 2nd pg. Accessed 16 June 2022
^(Alexander Cluny), Letter X, The American Traveller: or, Observations on the Present State[...]of the British Colonies in America (1769), pgs. 53-4 Accessed 6 June 2022
^"Halifax, June 6", The Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser, Vol. I, No. 23 (May 30 - June 6, 1769), pg. 183 Accessed 9 June 2022
^"Halifax, Octo. 31," The Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser, Vol. I, No. 44 (October 24–31, 1769), pgs. 349-50 Accessed 14 June 2022
^"Wednesday, November 8, 1769," The Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser, Vol. I, No. 47 (November 14–21, 1769), pgs. 376-7 Accessed 14 June 2022
^"To all Persons who[....]," The Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser, Vol. I, No. 53 (Dec. 26, 1769 - Jan. 2, 1770), pg. 7 Accessed 15 June 2022
^"T[h]ursday, November 2d, 1769," The Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser, Vol. I, No. 46 (November 7–14, 1769), pg. 367 Accessed 14 June 2022
^"This is to inform the Public," The Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser, Vol. I, No. 38 (September 12–19, 1769), pg. 303 Accessed 13 June 2022
^Allex. Abraham, "To the Public," The Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser, Vol. I, No. 53 (Dec. 26, 1769 - Jan. 2, 1770), pg. 7 Accessed 15 June 2022
^"The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality", The Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser, Vol. I, No. 27 (June 27 - July 4, 1769), pg. 209 Accessed 10 June 2022
^"Four ships of the line[....]", The Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser, Vol. I, No. 14 (March 28 - April 4, 1769), pg. 109, centre column Accessed 9 June 2022
^"Extract of a Letter from Newfoundland, July 11," The Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser, Vol. I, No. 39 (September 19–26, 1769), pg. 312 Accessed 13 June 2022
^"Satterdy 29 April 1769," "April 29 to May 1" Isaac Lester Diaries 1769, Maritime History Archive, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Accessed 8 June 2022
^(Alexander Cluny), Letter IVThe American Traveller: or, Observations on the Present State[...]of the British Colonies in America (1769), pgs. 17-19. Accessed 6 June 2022
^William Wales, "XIII. Journal of a Voyage, made[...]to Churchill River[....]" (1771?), pg. 128 Accessed 7 June 2022
^William Wales, "XIII. Journal of a Voyage, made[...]to Churchill River[....]" (1771?), pg. 124 Accessed 7 June 2022
^"Aug. 31. Last Thursday died[....]," The Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser, Vol. I, No. 49 (November 28 - December 5, 1769), pg. 400, centre column Accessed 15 June 2022
^"American News; Philadelphia, June 8; Extract of a Letter from London, April 6, 1769," The Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser, Vol. I, No. 27 (June 27 - July 4, 1769), pg. 212 Accessed 10 June 2022
^"A Correspondent observes[....]," The Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser, Vol. I, No. 48 (November 21-8, 1769), pgs. 382-3 Accessed 14 June 2022
^"An Ejaculation proper for the Times," The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 241 (August 10, 1769), 4th pg. Accessed 16 June 2022
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