1814 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
#history
#WarOf1812
An act declares alien (and thus not allowed land ownership) any U.S.-born person who owns land in Upper Canada and has returned to the U.S.A. during the war
1814 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
#history
#WarOf1812
An act declares alien (and thus not allowed land ownership) any U.S.-born person who owns land in Upper Canada and has returned to the U.S.A. during the war
1814 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
#history
#WarOf1812
John Strachan urges "Loyal Inhabitants of this Province [to be] neither depressed nor discontented [with the war's] privations and distresses"
https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.20994/42
Pgs. 37–8
See also: John Strachan - Strachan in the War of 1812
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/john-strachan
1814 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
#history
#WarOf1812
Upper Canada's harvests have been abundant and, "mixed with the evils of war, we notice a fresh spur to industry [and] an increase of commercial enterprize"
https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4269724
Pg. 2 (3rd column)
1813 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
#history
#WarOf1812
#MilitaryHistory
A #map of the Canada–U.S.A. frontier has Upper and Lower Canada on the main map and New Brunswick and Nova Scotia on the inset
#UpperCanada #LowerCanada #NewBrunswick #NovaScotiaHistory
See also: Upper Canada - New Colony Created
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/upper-canada
Lower Canada - The Quebec Act
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/lower-canada
New Brunswick - History - Development
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/new-brunswick
Nova Scotia - History
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/nova-scotia
1812 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
#history
#WarOf1812
#MilitaryHistory
"This hateful American #War has frighten'd us not a little — [New Brunswick] has not as yet suffer'd much by it — But there is horrible work in upper Canada"
1812 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
#history
#WarOf1812
#MilitaryHistory
From the (Washington, D.C.) National Intelligencer: In "no country [have #commerce and #war] operated as powerfully in raising colonies to wealth and importance as in the Canadas"
https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660989
Pg. 402
1811 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
#history
"I shall[...]facilitate as many good people into the Province as I possibly can" - A #Loyalist recruits people in #Schenectady, N.Y. to move to Upper Canada
https://www.notlmuseum.ca/research/download/81/3/47
Image 80
#UpperCanada #ImmigrationHistory
See also: Upper Canada - War of 1812
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/upper-canada
1811 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
#history
The Madison embargo has sent U.S. citizens "pouring into the Canadas[,] proof of the folly and madness of the measures of our government"
https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660887
Pg. 100
See also: Hartford, Conn. merchants say "our enterprizing merchants and industrious mechanics" have moved to the Canadas
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-03-02-0363
#JamesMadison #LowerClass #UpperCanada #LowerCanada #Hartford
See also: James Madison
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/james-madison
1810 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
The organizers of a new #bank in #Kingston, Upper Canada wish to sell 5,000 $50-shares, totalling $250,000, before seeking incorporation from Parliament
https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.63174/5
Image 5
See also: Banking in Canada - Early Banking in Canada
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/banking
Kingston
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/kingston
1809 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
"[In] #Soil, Climate and Government, Upper Canada may vie with any part of the globe [and will soon] become one of our most flourishing Colonies"
https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.42221/18
pg. 13
See also: Upper Canada - First Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe Takes Charge
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/upper-canada