1816 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
#history

CW: racist language
The "Grand Canal" will divert the Canadian fur trade to New York, and that will convince the British to give up the Canadas to the U.S.A.

https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3661171
Pg. 5 (left column)

#ErieCanal #LowerCanada #UpperCanada

1816 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
#history

The rising numbers of British settlers in the Canadas, possessing pride in their country, mean prosperity and tranquility in the colonies

https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3661210
Pg. 302 (left column bottom)

#LowerCanada #UpperCanada

1815 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
#history
#WarOf1812

With accounts of U.S. depredations in Upper Canada during the War of 1812, John Strachan chastises Thomas Jefferson personally for comments he made

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-08-02-0184

#UpperCanada
#ThomasJefferson

See also: John Strachan - Strachan in the War of 1812
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/john-strachan

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

https://bnald.lib.unb.ca/legislation/act-declare-certain-persona-therein-described-aliens-and-vest-their-estates-his-majesty

#law #UpperCanada

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

#UpperCanada

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)

#UpperCanada

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

https://digitalarchiveontario.ca/objects/338116/a-map-exhibiting-the-frontiers-of-canada-and-the-united-stat?idx=52

#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"

https://preserve.lib.unb.ca/wayback/20141205161012/http://atlanticportal.hil.unb.ca/acva/loyalistwomen/en/documents/browse/view.php?id=39_41&mode=dpl

#NewBrunswick #UpperCanada #WomenInHistory

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

#LowerCanada #UpperCanada #colony #WashingtonDC

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