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Events from the year 1765 in Canada.
Huge territories won in Seven Years War will ruin Britain with depopulation and trade rivalry (Note: "savages" used)[4]
Thomas Pownall says good policy means faithful and just alliance with Indigenous people, and dropping "that idle, useless claim of dominion" over them[5]
Long list of First Nations (from Atlantic to Mississippi) by name and "the Numbers of their fighting men"[6]
Indigenous parents seldom chastise children because they are either too young to understand or too old to be dominated[7]
"Revered among them in many transactions" - Nature and use of wampum, calumet and tomahawk by Indigenous people[8]
Despite its northern location, Quebec is "a healthy, fruitful, and pleasant country," with St. Lawrence River providing "an extended sea-coast"[9]
Gov. James Murray describes difficulty ruling Quebec given hostility among military, magistrates and merchants in Montreal[10]
London merchants trading to Quebec petition Board of Trade on harmful effects of soldier violence and Gov. Murray's ordinances (Note: poor copy)[11]
Notice of available land grants includes description of Quebec's fertility and productivity, and even its beneficial frost and snow[12]
With end of hostilities with those "who lately appeared in Arms," any subject may take out Indigenous trade licence under Royal Proclamation[13]
VIPs from England touring British colonies benefit from meeting Indigenous people, who demonstrate sagacity and intelligence (Note: "savage" used)[14]
"Maricitte Indians [are] reduced to the lowest Ebb of Misery" by Canadians taking beaver on their Temiscouata-Madawaska-Rivière du Loup lands[15]
Quebec governor's gardener solicits all with knowledge of botanicals, including those used in Indigenous medicines, paints and dyes[16]
Chaplain of Quebec recommends inoculation as "happiest Preservative" against smallpox, it being safe, effective, and "approv'd at Rome"[17]
School is opening to give instruction in "Arithmetic vulgar and decimal, the Extraction and Use of the Square and cube Roots, Mensuration" etc.[18]
Montreal fire of May 18 destroys one-fourth (one-third by value) of city of 7,000, leaving 215 families homeless[19]
"Fair to the eye [and] grateful to the taste" - Profile of Nova Scotia includes description of cod processing[20]
With "water sufficient for any ship that swims," Halifax Harbour has Royal Navy's chief American facility for careening and other maintenance[21]
Protestant missionaries in Nova Scotia speak English, French, Mi'kmaw and German (Note: "savages" used)[22]
Servants who desert their employers are liable to work twice length of their absence, unless they can prove they were abused[23]
Nova Scotian describes Stamp Act unrest in Boston and calm in Halifax[24]
French presence on St. Pierre and Miquelon draws Acadians and Mi'kmaq and warships to undermine British fishery and take Newfoundland[25]
Ship-based fishery, source of seamen for wartime, "is now wholly dropt and excluded by Encroachers and Monopolizers" in Newfoundland[26]
"If the English would be more honest, we should be more generous" - Haudenosaunee tell William Johnson they are cheated of their lands[27]
Traveller says Pontiac and other Indigenous leaders love French for their kind and generous ways, and British will need long time to gain such respect[28]
"[Almost] no part of North America[...]better worth settling, improving, and defending" - Great future foreseen for Great Lakes lands[29]
Recommendation that half-dozen Great Lakes forts, especially ones at Detroit and on Niagara River, be for protecting and wintering British traders[30]
Alexander Henry buys £1,250 in goods at Michilimackinac on 12 months credit and loads them into 4 canoes for exclusive trade on Lake Superior[31]
Frederick Haldimand to move to Canada all St. John's Island Acadians, who will be allowed to take cattle and one firelock, powder and shot per family[32]
"Advantages[...]would be derived from laying open this trade" - Reasons to end Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly[33]
Scottish Jacobite writer has ghosts of Wolfe and Montcalm discuss their final, fatal and flawed campaigns in Seven Years War[34]
Benjamin Franklin has some anonymous newspaper fun, relating Canadians' preparations for whaling and cod fishing in upper Great Lakes[35]
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