1763 in Canada
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Events from the year 1763 in Canada.
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With the Royal Proclamation of 1763 Lower Canada was renamed the "Province of Quebec".
Treaty of Paris 1763 confirms Canada, Cape Breton and Nova Scotia for Britain, and limited Newfoundland and Gulf fishing rights for France[3]
British ambassador ordered to discover how French intend to disrupt British rule in North American cessions and encroach on Newfoundland fishery[4]
Province of Quebec established with limits to settlement on Indigenous lands beyond its borders, and on settlers buying such land within province[5]
"Various Conjectures" - Benjamin Franklin summarizes reasons people are giving for attacks made on British by Indigenous people west of Lake Huron[6]
Despite Ojibwe chief Wawatam's warning, Alexander Henry witnesses massacre of British at Michilimackinac but is saved by enslaved Pawnee woman[7]
Teenager recounts being taken, enslaved, adopted, sold and rescued among Ojibwe, Odawa and French (Note: gruesome details; "savage" used)[8]
Character traits needed by North American commander-in-chief to deal well with Indigenous people (Note: racial stereotypes)[9]
Prospectus for weekly bilingual newspaper in Montreal, to aid anglophones and francophones learning each other's language, as well as deliver news[10]
"Correspondence increases Commerce" - Quebec merchants want postal service, but will have postmaster and military express handle their mail[11]
Maple sugaring near Sault Ste. Marie involves sugar shack with 20-foot-long fireplace, birchbark sap ducts and 100 gallon moosehide vats[12]
Nova Scotia Lt. Gov. Wilmot warns against letting dangerous Acadian group "bigotted to France and the Church of Rome" settle on Miramichi[13]
Acadians are not to be persuaded to move to France; instead "settle them in some distant District of Canada"[14]
Each Nova Scotia county quarter session is to make rules about river obstructions (weirs, fish garths, seines etc.) that may affect fish spawning[15]
At annual Nova Scotia township meetings, freeholders will appoint board of 12 residents to decide who should receive funds voted for poor relief[16]
"In order to prevent the increase of Billiard Tables and Shuffle Boards" in Nova Scotia, owners must get annual £10 licence, or risk £20 fine[17]
"Over populous[...]in the Island they at present inhabit," Nantucket mariners want to relocate to St. John's Island to take cod and whales[18]
To evade violently anti-British Indigenous people, Alexander Henry dons variety of Ojibwe clothing and ornaments[19]
Though injured by snowshoeing from Michilimackinac to Sault Ste. Marie, Alexander Henry refuses local remedy for "snow-shoe evil"[20]
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