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Events from the year 1768 in Canada.
Gov. Carleton is to call popular assembly in Quebec when possible, encourage Protestant schools, grant land only to those capable of farming, etc.[4]
To keep their loyalty, Carleton wants to allow Canadians judicial redress without fees and delays, plus few honorary positions and civil service jobs[5]
Former governor James Murray defends duties he levied as lower than those of French regime, which he proved in court in lawsuit against him[6]
Writer not surprised Quebec is poor, and likely to be poorer, when tradesmen set up as merchants and buy foreign goods they could make themselves[7]
Numerous house fires in Montreal and Quebec, from people not cleaning their chimneys, necessitate ordinance for chimney cleaning every four weeks[8]
April 11 fire in Montreal drives scores of families from their homes, but reportedly none are injured[9]
Valentine, "a Panis Indian," guilty of murdering army officer and servant, to be hanged "and his Body to be delivered to the Surgeons to be dissected"[10]
Surgeon offers inoculation (gratis to poor) "by which Means he has procured sufficient Infection for those who chuse to be inoculated"[11]
Discharged soldiers and others who have lots on Gaspé and Chaleur bays must clear, work or drain 3 acres for every 50 of each lot within 3 years[12]
Teacher will teach reading (by sounds rather than alphabet names of letters), writing, English, Latin, "true" double-entry Italian bookkeeping etc.[13]
Man falsely sworn to be father of woman's child informs readers that real father has demanded child and "challenged her" for claiming it's him[14]
"To Be Sold, a very healthy handy Negro Girl, about Eleven Years of Age, speaks both French and English."[15]
Husband of missing woman describes her, offers $1.50 reward, and wants her to "acknowledge her Fault, and tell me truly, who it was encouraged her"[16]
Notice seeking "Will, the Property of Eleazar Levy, [who] is much known in Canada, [and] speaks French, English and Spanish;" $4 reward offered[17]
William Johnson's conference with Indigenous people in which Six Nations "and all their Tributaries" agree to land cession and boundary[18]
Trade as far as Mississippi "very dull" while French and Spanish from New Orleans undersell British, who hold Sauk hostages after violence along river[19]
Robert Rogers brought to Montreal under strong guard, committed to "the Chateau, and double Centinels set over him"[20]
On Lake Huron, Alexander Henry and others avoid starving by eating rock tripe, thus not needing plan to cannibalize young woman among them[21]
British government pleased "that the Acadians have at length seen that their true interests lie in a due Submission to His [Majesty's] Government"[22]
Certificate of "Pierre Beliveau an accadian" showing he has taken oath of allegiance to King in Kings County, Nova Scotia court[23]
Nova Scotia Lt. Gov. Francklin pleased so many Acadians take oath of allegiance, and has no intention to use them in military or oppose their religion[24]
Francklin praises priest for "quieting the minds of the Indians" and "reconciling the consciencies [sic] of the Accadians who have lately taken the Oaths"[25]
Surveyor Charles Morris: Saint John River is "fine Country of Land in general [and] every necessary Convenience of Life can be had at an easy Rate"[26]
At settlement of disbanded New England soldiers on Saint John River, hemp grown more than 9 ft. tall marks success "beyond their Expectation"[27]
"Grimross is the most considerable Settlement that the French had" on Saint Johns River, but it is "now all demolished, and[...]laid waste"[28]
Widow may sue late husband's heir for her "reasonable dower" of one-third of "houses, lands, tenement or hereditaments," or of rents or profits[29]
Trader Benjamin Lester on Trinity, Newfoundland damage when tide pushed by easterly gale tosses ships around "at near an hours time every where"[30]
Travelling to St. Pierre on scientific expedition in July 1768, Cassini describes constant frustration (and danger) of being fogbound on Grand Banks[31]
Orders to settle St. John's Island with civil government, grants of townships to noblemen, and 3 towns: Charlotte-Town, George-Town and Prince-Town[32]
Description of Hudson Strait Inuit clothing (men's and women's, including tall boots in which babies can be carried), plus praise for Inuit "disposition"[33]