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GREAT BRITAIN PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE CIVIL GOVERNMENT OF CANADABiblio.com

[African-Americana – Shipwrecks – Canada] Kent, Thomas; Perley, MH M HBiblio.com

Court Duplicate of the Testimony of Thomas Kent a Black Man Aboard the Brigantine Britannia When It Wrecked off the Coast of New Brunswick in December of 1834

1835List2711St. John New Brunswick British North America 1835. Three 8 x 13 inch pages folded. Toning at folds; fine. With a clipping from the Quebec Gazette Monthly March 1835. Fine. Little biographical information is available on Thomas Kent save that he was a sailor aboard the Britannia and that the newspaper clipping included here identifies him as â€œa colored man.â€ Offered here is a notarized copy of Kentâ€™s testimony concerning the wreck of the Britannia and the consequent deaths of its Captain Thomas Millidge Walker its mates Woodward and Elliot and its cook George Monroe who was also a Black man. The Britannia was owned by New Brunswick merchants Isaac and John G. Woodward who may have requested the notarized testimony for insurance purposes: the notary writes that it was written on their behalf and emphasizes that: â€œThat the capsizing of the said Brigantine and her subsequent loss arose solely from the excessive violence of the Gale and a tremendous Sea and not from any default or negligence of the Captain or Crew.â€ The ship had sailed from New Brunswick on December 21 1834 for Berbice in Dutch Guyana with a load of lumber and fish. Six days later the shipâ€™s trials began. Kent testifies that the Britannia: â€œwas hove to in a violent gale of wind from the north West; that a few minutes before midnight a very heavy sea struck her and capsized her on her beam-ends; . That this appearer i.e. Kent was washed overboard when the sea struck the vessel but fortunately succeeded in getting on board again when he discovered three other Seamen on Deck.â€ According to the clipping the other survivors were James Potter William Phillips and Thomas Gibb. They survived solely because they had been on deck; the others â€œbeing below were drowned in the Cabin.â€ The storm began to let up the next morning but â€œthis appearer and the other three Seamen remained on the wreck nine days nearly all of which time it blew a gale of wind.â€ The men survived â€œby their fortunately catching a shark on which and a few potatoes that floated up from below they subsisted.â€ After nine days they were rescued by the Caledonia a packet ship traveling from New York to Liverpool. Arriving in Liverpool three weeks later the men are still not recovered from the ordeal: â€œone of the Seamen saved afterwards died in the Infirmary at Liverpool from fatigue and exposure; . this appearer was also so ill in Liverpool from the same causes that his life was greatly despaired of.â€ Overall a harrowing account of interest to scholars of maritime history and Canadian history and of Black peopleâ€™s roles therein. unknown

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LOWER CANADA PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON THE PETITIONS AGAINST GRIEVANCESBiblio.com

Rapports Et Témoignages Du Comité SpecialAuquel ont été référées La Pétition des Habitans du Comté de York celle des Habitans de la Cité de Montréal et autres Petitions Se

1829elala1084np: 1829. 1829. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l. 3index 4-255. modern calf covers bit discoloured. The majority of the grievances were directed at the authoritarian regime of Lord Dalhousie as governor of Lower Canada and Governor-in-Chief of British North America 1820-28 when he was recalled. Included are grievances relating to Dalhousies establishment of a new Quebec Gazette his censure of Sir Francis Burton for having sanctioned a Bill of Supply his dismissal of militia officers and exercise of intimidation during elections his dismissal of justices of the peace and the unfair manner of jury selection. "Among other things the Montreal petitioners complained that contrary to the laws of England juries both grand and petty and both King's Bench and Quarter Sessions were being drawn exclusively from the town of Montreal rather than from the district at large. The committee chaired by Denis-Benjamin Viger concluded that this practice of jurors being "selected or as it were packed - summoned exclusively from among the inhabitants of a particular place or from a particular class - cannot be more compatible with liberty than it is with the rules of impartial justice. It is repugnant to every principle of our government and can only tend to the overthrow of the constitution of the country.The executive's control over the process of selecting juries became for the Patriotes yet another symbol of despotism and of the attempted exclusion of canadiens from their democratic rights given that they predominated in the countryside; a number of highly political jury trials for libel and sedition did nothing to help matters. The controversy only began to die down from 1830 when James Kempt ordered that jurors be drawn from the body of the district; the denouement came in 1832 when the legislature adopted a law regulating the qualification and selection of jurors" Donald Fyson Grand Juries Political Power And Citizenship In Quebec And Lower Canada 1764-1830 a paper for the 77th annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association Ottawa May 1998TPL 1549. Sabin 10568. cfCasey I 1279. Not in Dionne Gagnon or Lande. np: 1829. unknown

D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB) · Canada1 298,70 $US≈ 1 098,83 €

Canada Eastern TownshipsABAA

LIST OF UNSOLD LANDS: THE PROPERTY OF THE BRITISH AMERICAN LAND COMPANY. THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS OF CANADA DISTRICT OF ST. FRANCIS caption title

1842WRCAM39134Montreal: Printed by John C. Becket 1842. Broadside 22 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches. Printed in six columns. Small tears and creasing at all margins affecting a few words of text; significant loss at upper corners not affecting text. Good. A Canadian broadside advertising lands available in the Eastern Townships printed at the beginning of the region's transformation into a French-speaking area. In the early 1800s the Eastern Townships were an almost exclusively Anglophone region of Quebec. The American Revolution precipitated the flight of over 40000 Loyalists to Canada in the 1780s including a small handful to the largely unsettled region of Quebec between the St. Lawrence River and the U.S. border known as the Eastern Townships. The Loyalists cleared much of the rich land for farming which attracted a large number of immigrants from New England in the first decades of the 19th century. In the 1840s a rapid shift occurred in the region as French- speaking Quebecois from poorer areas began pouring in and the English speakers began emigrating to the U.S. and other parts of Canada. Francophones became a majority in the 1870s and today constitute over 85% of the population. The present broadside printed in English lists hundreds of lots for sale by the British American Land Company and includes over a column's worth of detailed descriptions of lands open for purchase. The following towns and areas are represented: Ascot Auckland Brompton Compton Clifton Clinton Ditton Dudswell Eaton Hereford Melbourne Newport Orford Shipton Stoke Weedon Westbury and Windsor in the County of Sherbrooke; Barford Barnston Bolton Hatley Potton and Stanstead in the County of Stanstead; Brome Ely Farnham Granby Milton Roxton Shefford and Stukeley in the County of Shefford; Acton Aston Chester Durhan Grantham Ham Kingsley Simpson Tingwock Warwick Wendover and Wickham in the County of Drummond; Sutton in the County of Missisquoi; Hemmingford in the County of Beauharnois; and improved farms in the district of St. Francis Territory Port St. Francis and the town of Sherbrooke. Not listed on OCLC and apparently unrecorded. Very rare. Printed by John C. Becket unknown books

William Reese Company · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 269,15 €

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Report From The Select Committee On The Civil Government Of Canada. Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed 22 July 1827 sic

Doctor Charles Duncombe's Report Upon The Subject Of Education Made To The Parliament Of Upper Canada 25th February 1836. Through The Commissioners Doctors Morrison And Bruce Appointed By A Resolution Of The House Of Assembly In 1835 To Obtain I

The 48th Forty-Eighth Highlanders of Toronto - Canadian Militia - The Origin and History of This regiment and a Short Account of the Highland Regiments from time to Time Stationed in Canada

Notes of a Twenty-five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory

Court Duplicate of the Testimony of Thomas Kent a Black Man Aboard the Brigantine Britannia When It Wrecked off the Coast of New Brunswick in December of 1834

Narrative of a journey to the shores of the polar sea in the years 1819-1822

Hunter's Ottawa Scenery in the Vicinity of Ottawa City Canada

Narrative the second expedition to the shores of the polar sea in the years 1825-1827

Report of Commissioners for Superintending the Improvement of the River Saint Lawrence

THE PROVINCIAL STATUTES OF LOWER CANADA.

Rapports Et Témoignages Du Comité SpecialAuquel ont été référées La Pétition des Habitans du Comté de York celle des Habitans de la Cité de Montréal et autres Petitions Se

Voyage fait par ordre de l'Impératrice de Russie Catherine II, dans le nord de la Russie asiatique, dans la mer glaciale, dans la mer d'Anadyr, et sur les côtes de l'Amérique, depuis 1785 jusqu'en 1794.

Album of photographs along the Humber River in Newfoundland and Labrador including images of indigenous peoples and salmon fishing

Geological Survey of Canada

LIST OF UNSOLD LANDS: THE PROPERTY OF THE BRITISH AMERICAN LAND COMPANY. THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS OF CANADA DISTRICT OF ST. FRANCIS caption title

[TERRE-NEUVE] Pêche à la morue sur le Grand Banc de Terre-Neuve. Les embarcations élongeant les lignes.

A History of Nova-Scotia or Acadie . Bound with: An Act for the Union of Canada Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Together with the Act Authorising a loan for the Halifax and Quebec Railway. Published by order of the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia

[CHUTES du NIAGARA] Niagara Falls. Part of the American Fall, from the foot of the Stair Case.

Voyage au Canada, dans les années 1795, 1796 et 1797

JOURNALS OF THE SPECIAL COUNCIL OF THE PROVINCE OF LOWER CANADA.

Narrative of a journey to the shores of the polar sea in the years 1819-1822 & Narrative the second expedition to the shores of the polar sea in the years 1825-1827

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