Canadians request return of their laws, which are basis of their property and family rule, and public office from which they are humiliatingly excluded[6]
Reward of $200 offered for information on "the Malefactors and abominable people that have, and attempt yet every Day, to set Fire to this Town"[7]
Since surveyor appointed, small number of chimney fires shows benefit of chimney law, and minding fireplaces may save "us from that dreadful Calamity"[8]
Lightning coming down chimney to fireplace she was kneeling at kills woman in Charlebourg, her last words being "My God, I am dying: Help"[9]
After saying he would kill his wife to priest (and requesting he "assist him at the Gallows"), Quebec man attempts murder and then kills himself[10]
Advertisement for shipping on Lakes Ontario, Erie and Huron - "infinitely less liable to hazard" than going "defenceless[...]to be seized by the Savages"[12]
Illinois Country whites (pop. ca. 2,000) have connections with Canada and local Indigenous people, and tend to trade and hunt more than farm[13]
Nova Scotia townships must support only resident poor people and orphans, excepting poor and disabled people who can be supported by family[15]
Needy "dissenting Ministers" of Nova Scotia will benefit from interest earned on charitable fund "warmly recommended" by 28 such clergymen in London[16]
Interest on loans in Nova Scotia to be no higher than 6% (with grandfather clause) and lenders charging higher rate are to pay triple value of loan made[17]
George Cartwright's sighting of Beothuk evokes long description of them and Newfoundlanders' murderous attitude toward them (Note: "wild" used)[19]
St. John's merchants tell Gov. Byron Newfoundland trade suffers from previous governor, worker neglect, loss of settlers, drinking, and customs delays[20]
Moravian missionary purchases land from head Inuk in each tent because "you are all Lords + Masters[...], each of you says He is Master of the Land"[22]
After Inuit men of "Esquimaux Bay" acknowledge violence of past, missionary consults with them on where Moravians should build their house[23]
Inuit acknowledge that they are Brethren's children and must attend their meetings and do what they are told to do[24]
George Cartwright describes construction of Inuit sled made of spruce planks, whale jaw bone runners and walrus hide thongs[25]
Samuel Hearne on expedition is irked but not dismayed by ways of his Indigenous guide ("Con-ne-e-quese"; Note: "niggard" means ungenerous person)[26]
^Mr. Wynne, "Reflections on the present State of the North-American Colonies", A General History of the British Empire in America(....) Vol. II (1770), pgs. 393-5. (See also in this volume (pg. 430): "Canada can be nothing but a factory for the fur trade, and Nova-Scotia only a fishing settlement.") Accessed 21 April 2022
^"The United Company of the City of Montreal[....]", The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 298 (September 13, 1770), 3rd pg., right column. (See also provincial government offers additional reward of 200 Spanish dollars) Accessed 22 June 2022
^"Halifax, February 20; By Letters received[....]", The Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser, Vol. II, No. 8 (February 13–20, 1770), pg. 63 Accessed 21 June 2022 (See also royal donation of £1,000 to fund)
^"Extract of a Letter from a Merchant in St. John's Island", The Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser, Vol. II, No. 10 (February 28 - March 6, 1770), pg. 79 Accessed 21 June 2022
^C.W. Townsend (ed.), "Wednes., July 11, 1770"Captain Cartwright and His Labrador Journal (1911), pgs. 16-25. Accessed 24 June 2022