CanText - 1700s

French-English Conflict

• 1750 October - Memoir on the English Aggression
• 1750 - Galissonière's Memoir on French Colonies in North America
• 1755 - George Washington to Dinwiddie on Battle of Monongahela
• 1755 - Captain de Contrecoeur on Braddock's Defeat
• 1755 - Colonel John Winslow, Declaration of Acadian Expulson & Forfeiture
• 1755 - Three Accounts of General Braddock's Defeat at Fort Duquesne.
• 1759 - An Account of General Wolfe's Expedition Against Quebec.
• 1760 - General Amherst's Spruce Beer Recipe

The American Revolution

• 1754 The Albany Plan of Union - June 1754
• 1761 Wyndham Quebec Policy
• 1761 Governor Glen on the Role of the Indians
• 1763 Treaty of Paris
• 1763 - Royal Proclamation
• 1765 - The Stamp Act
• 1774 Quebec Act - October 7, 1774
• 1774 Declaration of Rights - October 14, 1774
• 1775 Congress - Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms - July 6, 1775
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Concord Hymn
• 1776 - Thomas Paine, Common Sense
• 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights - June 12, 1776
• 1776 Declaration of Independence - July 4, 1776
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Concord Hymn

The Invasion of Quebec

• May 29, 1775 - Continental Congress - Letter to the Inhabitants of Canada
• 1775 Continental Regiments - Canada
• September 6, 1775 - George Washington's Address to the Inhabitants of Canada
• October 20, 1775 - Richard Montgomery - Letter from St. John's (St-Jean), Oct. 20, 1775
• November 3, 1775 - Richard Montgomery - Letter from St. John's (St-Jean), Nov. 3, 1775
• November 12, 1775 - Articles of Capitulation of Montreal
• December 31, 1775 - Judge Henry on the Death of Montgomery

Exploration and the West

• 1610-1791 - The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, R.G. Thwaites, ed.
• 1700 - Ross description of a Coureur de Bois
• 1714 - 1717 - The Story of Thanadelthur, from the Journals of James Knight.
• 1760-76 - Alexander Henry, Travels and Adventures (extracts)
• 1772 - Samuel Hearne's Journey from Prince of Wales' Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean.
• 1778 - Captain James Cook's Pacific Coast Narratives.
• 1784-1812 - David Thompson, Narrative of his Explorations in Western America 1784-1812 (extracts)
• 1793 - Alexander Mackenzie's Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (extracts)

Acts and Treaties

• August 4, 1701 - The Great Peace of Montreal
• March 31, 1713 - Treaty of Utrecht
• 1763 Treaty of Paris
• 1782 Treaty of Versailles
• 1783 Paris Peace Treaty
• 1791 - The Constitutional Act
• 1794 - The Jay Treaty

Histories

• Arthur Doughty, The Acadian Exiles
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline
• William H. Withrow, The Exile of the Acadian Neutrals
• Wrong, Conquest of New France
• Bradley, The Victory of Wolfe at Quebec
• Parkman, Death of Wolfe & Montcalm

Diaries and Accounts

• John Graves Simcoe to Evan Nepean, on the Queen's American Rangers, March 1783
• Elizabeth Simcoe's Diary, 1791-96

The Loyalists

• Sir John Johnson, Petition of the Loyalists, April 11, 1785