| DATES |
EVENTS |
1700
|
Deaths
1700:
January 12, 1700 - Died
Marguerite
Bourgeoys
(1620-1700), founder of the the Congregation de Notre Dame at
Montreal |
| 1701 |
August 4, 1701
-
The Great Peace of Montreal between New France and
40 First Nations is finalized
Births
1701:
October 15, 1701 - Born Marie Marguerite d'Youville
(1701-1771) founder of the religious order known as "the Grey Nuns".
|
| 1702 |
Deaths
1702:
December 28, 1702 -
Died Charlotte-Francoise Juchereau de Saint Denis
(1660-1702) noted businesswoman of New France
|
| 1704 |
Births
1704:
August 26, 1704 - Born Marie Anne Fornel (1704-1793) business woman
of New France
|
| 1705 |
Births 1705:
July 6, 1705 - Born Louise de Ramezay
(1705-1776) pioneer businesswoman of New France
|
| 1706 |
Deaths 1706:
October 20, 1706 - Died Adrienne du
Vivier-Lecavelier (1626-1706) pioneer of New France |
| 1708 |
Deaths 1708:
1708 - Died Jeanne Chartier (1646- 1708),
Fille du Roi, pioneer of New France
|
| 1710 |
Births
1710:
1710 -
Born circa 1710 Marie Joseph Angélique,(1710 ca- 1730) a back
slave who set fire to Montreal to mask her escape with her lover
|
| 1713 |
April 11, 1713 -
Under the Treaty of Utrecht, France, ending the War of Spanish
Succession, recognizes British sovereignty
over Hudson Bay, Acadia and Newfoundland. France retains possession
of the island of St. Pierre and Miquelon, Ile Royale (Cape Breton)
and Ile Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island). France also
gives up its claim to a monopoly of trade with
indigenous peoples
June 23, 1713 - The French residents of Acadia
are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or
leave Nova Scotia |
| 1714 |
November 1714 - Thanadelthur
(1697?-1717),
(originally noted as the ‘slave woman’ in writings of the Hudson Bay
Company) arrives at York Factory, a Hudson Bay Company post, after
having escaped her Cree Captors
|
| 1715 |
Births
1715:
1715 - Born Elizabeth (Myich/Paine) Doane (1715-1798) pioneer of Nova Scotia
skilled in natural medicines and healing and midwifery
|
| 1716 |
May 7, 1716 - Thanadelthur
(1717?)
is given
credit for the successful mission between the Hudson Bay Company and
the Cree and Chipewyans Source: 100 Canadian heroines :
famous and forgotten faces by Merna Forester. Toronto : Dundurn Press,
2004. pg 255.
Deaths 1716;
March 16, 1716 - Died Marie-Francoise Hébert
(1638-1716) pioneer of New France |
| 1722 |
Births
1722:
March 23, 1722 - Born Marguerite Thérèse Lemoine Despins
(1722-1792) the 2nd Mother Superior of the Grey Nuns
|
| 1723 |
Deaths
1723;
January 14, 1723
- Died Jeanne-Francoise Juchereau De La Ferté
(1650-1723) Mother Saint-Ignace
|
| 1727 |
Births
1727:
1727- Born Deborah How Cottnam (1727?-1806) poet &
teacher in Maritimes |
| 1728 |
Births
1728:
1728 - Born Sally Ainse Montour (1728-1822?) a historic
plaque in Chatham, Ontario commemorates the life of this fiery
aboriginal woman
May 19, 1728 - Born Deborah How Cottnam
(1728-1808) poet |
| 1730 |
Deaths
1730:
April 8, 1730 - Died Marie Morin
(Baptized (1649-1730), the 1st Canadian born woman to
become a religious sister
June 28, 1730 - Died
Marie Joseph Angélique,(1710 ca- 1730) a back
slave who set fire to Montreal to mask her escape with
her lover |
| 1731 |
Births 1731:
October 16, 1731
- Born Jeanne Dugas (1731-1817) pioneer Acadian |
| 1733 |
Births
1733:
May 14, 1733 - Born
Marie-Josephite Corriveau (1733-1763) La Corriveau,
condemned for murdering her husband
|
| 1734 |
Births
1734:
1734 -
Born Barbara Heck (1734-1804) founder of early Methodist followings in
New York City and Bay of Quinte, Ontario
|
| 1736 |
Births
1736:
1736- Born
Marie Marguerite Rose-Laurent (1736-1757) A slave
freed in Louisbourg |
1737
|
1737 - Marguerite d’Youville (1737-1771)
& some friends in Montreal, begin taking in the
poor and educating abandoned children Source; Dictionary of Canadian Biography
|
| 1738 |
1738 - Esther
Brandeau , in the guise of a cabin boy, is the 1st Jewish woman to arrive in Canada.
Eventually she is deported to France for failing to
embrace the Roman Catholic religion Source: Dictionary of
Canadian Biography
|
| 1739 |
1739 - A census of Canada records a population of 42,701 |
| 1740 |
Births
1740:
1740 - Born Mikak (1740-1795) Travelled to England and helped raise funds for
Moravarian Missions in North America
|
| 1741 |
Births 1741:
1741 - Born Elizabeth 'Mammy" Hopkins (1741 - died after
1817) British Loyalist who fought in the American Revolution
|
| 1744 |
Deaths
1744:
July 1, 1744 - Died Catherine Jérémie de Lamontagne
(1664-1744) midwife & amateur botanist.
|
| 1745 |
Births
1745:
1745 -
Born Frances Brooks (1745-1789) novelist who wrote the 1st novel in
North America
|
| 1746 |
Births 1746:
July 11, 1746 - Born Frederika Charlotte
Louise Riedesel (1746-1808) put up 1st Christmas tree in
Canada
|
| 1747 |
1747 - Marguerite d'Youville
(- 1771) founds the Sisters of
Charity or the Grey Nuns of Montreal (Source : Dictionary of Canadian Biography)
Deaths 1747:
August 8, 1747 - Died Madelaine de Verchères, (1678-1747) youth
heroine of New France
|
| 1748 |
Deaths 1748:
1748 - Died Agathe de Repentigny (1657-1748?)
pioneer businesswoman and entrepreneur of new France
|
| 1749 |
Births
1749:
1749 -
Born Mary Barbara Fisher (1749-1841) Loyalist
pioneer of Canadian Maritimes
|
| 1750 |
1750 - The textile industry is
established in what is now the province of Quebec. Women
have always been a significant proportion of workers in
the textile industry
Births 1750:
1750 - Born
Helen 'Nelly' MacDonald of Glenaladale (1750?-1803?)
pioneer of Prince Edward Island |
| 1751 |
Births
1751:
1751 - Born Mary
'Polly' Cannon (1751-1827) pioneer |
1752
|
March 23,1752 -
Elizabeth Bushell shares with her
father in the establishing of the 1st Canadian printing office and
Canada's 1st newspaper,
the weekly Halifax Gazette begins publishing Source: Women in the Canadian book trade .
National Library of Canada (accessed January 2002)
April 17, 1752 - A fortified
outpost, Fort Rouille, is established on the site of
modern day Toronto
Births 1752:
1752- Born Charlotte Taylor (1752?)-1841),
Mother of Tabusintac New Brunswick. * May have been born between
1752-1755)
|
| 1753 |
1753 -
Marguerite d'Youville (
- 1771) is granted French Royal Charter for the
Grey Nuns, Sisters of Charity. Source:
Jean Bannerman Leading Ladies Canada. Belleville, ON: Mika Publishing,
1977 pg 34 |
| 1755 |
June
1755 - Hotel Dieu hospital in Quebec City is destroyed by fire
Source: Jean Bannerman Leading Ladies
Canada. Belleville, ON: Mika Publishing, 1977 pg 20.
Births 1755:
March 26, 1755 - Born Marie
Catherine Pélissier Sales Laterière (1755-1831) a woman
who is a true symbol of one who fought for the rights of
individuals
April 26, 1755 - Born Anne Powell
(1755-1849) Doyenne of Toronto during War of 1812
September 27, 1755 -
Born Marie Anne Paquet (de Saint Olivier) (1755-1831)
Ursuline Mother Superior
|
| 1756 |
May 17, 1756
- The Seven Years’ War begins with Britain declaring war on France. It
starts in North America and spreads to Europe |
| 1757 |
Deaths 1757:
1757 - Died Marie Marguerite
Rose-Laurant (1736-1757) freed slave at Louisbourg |
| 1758 |
1758 -
Poor women women of New
France protest the food shortages caused by the war with
England
Deaths 1758:
July 20 , 1758 -
Died Lydia Longley
(1674-1758) the 1st American Nun
|
| 1759 |
September 13, 1759 - Both French and English generals
die in the Battle of the Plains Abraham. Canada is won by the
British
Births 1759:
1759 - Born Catherine Brant (ca 1759-1837)
Ohtowa kéhson head woman of the Turtle clan and 3rd wife of Chief
Joseph Brant (1743-1807)
|
| 1760 |
September 8, 1760
- The Negroes & Panis
(Aboriginal Slaves) of both sexes shall remain, in their quality
of slaves, in the possession of the French and Canadians to whom
they belong: they shall be at liberty to keep them in their
service in the colony or sell them... Source:
Article 47 of the
Articles of Capitulation, Montreal September 8, 1760
Births
1760:
April 16, 1760 - Born Jeanne Charlotte Allamand Berczy
(1760-1839) pioneer, painter, teacher & one of the
founders of Toronto society
|
| 1761 |
Births 1761:
1761 - Born
Elizabeth Mitchell (ca 1761-1827) heroine of the War of 1812.
Source: Women of Courage 1812-2012.
(Accessed March 2015.)
|
| 1762 |
Births
1762:
1762 - Born Nancy Morton (1762-???) slave
August 13, 1762 - Born
Marie-Henriette LeJeune Ross 'Granny Ross' pioneer
scientist and medical pioneer settler
September 22, 1762 - Born Elizabeth Posthuma
Simcoe (1762-1850) artist & diarist in Upper Canada
|
| 1763 |
February
10, 1763 - France signs the Peace of Paris, ending the Seven
Years War, and gives up "Canada"
to England except for the Island of St Pierre et Miquelon in the
Gulf of St Lawrence
Births 1763:
January 2, 1763 -
Born Hannah Jarvis (1763-1845) pioneer, diarist, and
letter writer
Deaths
1763:
April 18, 1763
(?) - Died Marie-Josephite Corriveau (1733-1763) La Corriveau,
condemned for murdering her husband
|
| 1764 |
Births 1764;
May 28, 1764 - Born Elizabeth Johnston (1764-1848)
author & loyalist settler in Nova Scotia
Deaths
1764:
February 26, 1764 -
Died Thérése de Couagne (1697-1764), astute business
woman of New France |
| 1766 |
April
11, 1766 - Fire destroys 1/3 of the town of Montreal
Births
1766:
1766 - Born Catherine Anne Prevost (1766-1821) wife of Sir
Charles Prevost, Governor General of British North America
during War 1812
January 13,1766 - Born
Marie-Geneviève Drapeau Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Quebec (1766-1829),
a well known and respected business personality of her day |
| 1767 |
Births
1767:
1767- Born Mary Whitmore 'Granny' Hoople
(1757-1858) a pioneer woman known as the 'Medicine
Maid', she used natural remedies to help the sick
Deaths 1767:
November 15, 1767 - Died
Marie-Charlotte de Ramezay (1697-1767) religious sister & hospital
administrator |
| 1768 |
|
| 1770 |
Births
1770:
November 11, 1770 - Born Ann Kirby Macaulay (1770-1850) a
loyalist who came to Canada and became a successful
business woman |
| 1771 |
Deaths
1771:
December 23, 1771 - Died Marie Marguerite
d'Youville (1701-1771) founder of the religious order known as "the
Grey Nuns"
|
| 1772 |
Births 1772:
June 21, 1772 -
Born Catherine Smith (1772-1840? United
Empire Loyalist in Upper Canada |
| 1773 |
July 20, 1773 - The 1st
Scottish settlers arrive in Pictou, Nova Scotia
Births 1773:
1773 - Born Mary London (1773-1801) convicted
murderer |
| 1774 |
June 22, 1774
-
The British
Parliament passes the Quebec Act, establishing among
other things French civil law, British-based criminal
law and religious freedom for Roman Catholics
Births 1774:
1774 - Born Elizabeth
Frances Hall (1774-1799) artist who depicted early scenes in the
Canadas
|
| 1775 |
June 17,
1775 -
During the American Revolution the
Continental Congress bans trade with British Canad
Births 1775:
1775 -
Born Margaret McLaughlin (1775 ? - 1860)
pioneer of the Canadian northwest
1775 - Born Rhoda Skinner (1775-1834) pioneer
mother to 37 children
|
| 1776 |
April 1, 1776 - The 1st United Empire Loyalists
refugees from the American Revolution arrive in Halifax
Nova Scotia. Eventually some 40, 000 will settle in
various areas of Canada
Deaths 1776:
October 22, 1776 -
Died
Louise de Ramezay (1705-1776) pioneer businesswoman of New France
|
| 1778 |
Births 1778:
August 2, 1778 -
Born Marie Amable Viger (1778-1854)
social activist
|
1780
|
Births 1780:
February 1780 -
Born Marguerite-Magdelaine La Framboise (1780-1846)
Fur trader & entrepreneur
August 2, 1780 -
Born Marie-Anne Lagemodiére, (1780-1875.)
one of the 1st white women to visit such outposts as Red River and
Fort Edmonton
August 28, 1780 - Born Marie-Louise McLoughlin (1780-1846)
Sister Saint Henri, Mother Superior of Ursuline order
Deaths 1780:
November 28, 1780 -
Died Ester Wheelwright (1696-1780), kidnapped by Indians, she is
brought to New France where she grew up and became Mother Superior
of the Ursuline Order of nuns
|
| 1781 |
1781 - Frederika Charlotte Louise Riedesel
(1746-1808)
put up 1st Christmas tree in Canada while living in
Sorrel, Quebec
Births 1781:
1781 - Born Martha Merrifield (1781-1851)
pioneer of Eardley, Quebec
August 1781 -
Born Belinda Molony (1781-1865) Sister Mary Xavier of the
Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, established a girls school
in Newfoundland
Deaths
1781:
March 30, 1781 -
Died Catherine Quevillon Papineau (1686-1781) pioneer & matriarch of the famous Papineau
family
|
| 1782 |
Births 1782:
1762 - Born Katherine Pyndar
Sherbrooke (1782- 18??) wife of Sir John Coape
Sherbrooke, Lt. Governor of Nova Scotia 1811-1816 &
Governor General of British North America 1816
|
| 1783 |
1783 - Mohawk Molly
Brant (1736-1796) is given a house
in Kingston, Ontario and a pension by the British
Government for service and loyalty to the Crown during
the American Revolution Source: Women in history: a
timeline by Kirsten Smith Postmedia News March 3, 2011 May 18,1783 -
With the end of the American Revolution, United
Empire Loyalists (U E L) emigrate to the British colonies in
Canada with the 1st U E L's reaching Parrtown, Saint John,
New Brunswick
Births 1783:
1783 - Born Marguerite Vincent Lawinonkie
(1783-1865) native artist in needlework, moccasin making
& snowshoe making
November 29, 1783 -
Born Susan Sibbald, (1783-1866)
pioneer &
diarist
|
| 1784 |
1784 - New Brunswick
becomes an official British colony seperate from Nova
Scotia |
| 1785 |
1785
- Barbara Heck (1734-1804) with her husband and four children
were among the loyalists who settled in Upper Canada
(Augusta) where they established their Methodist
beliefs. They had been paramount in establishing the
First Methodist Church in New York City prior to seeking
sanctuary in Canada as Loyalists
Births 1785:
1785 -
Born Sophia Sims Dalton (1785c- 1859) the 1st woman to run a
newspaper, The Patriot, in Toronto
September 8, 1785 -
Born Mary (Maria) Elizabeth Alexowina Muir (1785-1862)
Heroine of the war of 1812
Deaths 1785:
November 26, 1786 -
Died Eunice Williams (1694-1785) pioneer who
survived capture by unfriendly Natives to become mother
of an North American family dynasty
|
| 1786 |
Births
1786:
1786 - Born
Charlotte Small (1786-1857) pioneer
|
| 1787 |
1787 - New Brunswick
passes it first law to regulated Marriage and Divorce
and for preventing and punishing Incest, Adultery, and
Fornication. |
| 1788 |
Births
1788:
1788 - Born- Ann Cuthbert Knight Fleming (1788-1860)
Pioneer author of early Canadian text books for children
1788 - Born Susanne Connolly ( La Sauvages of Suzanne Pas de
Nom) 1788-1862) Pioneer aboriginal married to a fur trader and
only woman who's legal marriage claim rose to the supreme court
|
| 1789 |
1789 -
The Bishop of Quebec repots that the number of literate women is
higher than the number of literate men in the province.
Source: Canadian Chronology
(accessed April 28, 2003)
Births 1789:
1789? -
Born Diana Bayley (1789?-1868) firs Canadian resident to
publish children's literature
1789 -
Born
Catherine McPherson (1789c-1876) Pioneer settler of the
Red River settlement
1789?
-
Born Priscilla Miller (1789?-1865?) pioneer of Grey Co.,
Ontario
Deaths 1789:
1789 -
Died Frances Brooks (1745-1789) novelist who wrote the first
novel in North America
|
| 1790 |
Births
1790:
1790 -
Born Catherine Fraser (1790-1862) wife of famous explorer Simon
Fraser
1790 -
Born - Nancy McTavish
Leblanc (1790-1851) Aboriginal name Matooskie, Métis pioneer of
western Canada fur trade era.
1790 - Born Nancy Purvis (1790-1839) teacher & school
administrator
March 17, 1790 - Born Catherine Fraser
(1790-1862) pioneer wife of explorer Simon Fraser |
| 1791 |
June 10, 1791
- Britain’s Canada
Act divides the new country into Upper Canada, with its
capital at Newark (later Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario),
& Lower Canada, with Quebec City as its capital
1791 -
Under the Constitutional Act, 1791
certain owners and tenants were granted qualified voter status,
without distinction as to sex. Some women of Lower Canada (Quebec)
who met the prerequisites interpreted this constitutional
"oversight" as an authorization to vote. It would seem that they
were the only women in the British Empire to avail themselves of
this right New Brunswick passes a law excluding women from
the right to vote. 1849, under the leadership of La
Fontaine-Baldwin, this "historical irregularity" was
rectified when women were formally prohibited from
voting
1791 - New Brunswick passes a second
act to regulate Marriage and Divorce etc. allowing
divorce on grounds of frigidity, impotence, adultery &
blood relationship. a court composed of the province's
governor and five members of council was set up to hear
all divorce and alimony cases
Births 1791:
April 30, 1791 -
Born Marie
Catherine Huot / Sister Sainte-Madeleine. (1791-1869) appointed
three
times as Mother superior of her order
|
| 1792 |
June
11, 1792 - The 1st elections are held in Lower Canada (now
Quebec). Anyone over 21, including women, who owned property & had
not been convicted of a criminal offence could vote
June 17, 1792 -
The first legislative
assembly of Lower Canada (now Quebec) is opened
1792 -
New Brunswick passes an Act to Provide for the
maintenance of Bastard Children. The Act began with the
consideration that provincial parishes needed protection
now doubt from strained purses.
Births 1792:
May 31, 1792 -
Born Sophie Shaw (1792-1872) fiancée
of Sir Isaac Brock (1769-1812)
Deaths
1792:
June 6, 1792 -
Died
Marguerite Thérèse Lemoine Despins (1722-1792) the second Mother
Superior of the Grey Nuns
|
| 1793 |
July
9, 1793 - An act to prevent any further introduction of slaves
and to limit the term of contracts is passed
(chapter VII 33rd George III) Source: Database Canada by Bob
Bowman (Toronto, Holt, 1967)
July 20, 1793 -
Explorer, Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean
by an overland route
Births
1793:
January 27, 1793 - Born Marie Rosalie Cadron (1794-1864)
Sister Marie De La Nativité, pioneer social worker
May 17,1793 -
Born Anna Brownell Jameson, (1794-1860) author
May 24, 1793 -
Born Frances Stewart, (1794-1872) pioneer diarist & letter
writer
Deaths 1793:
November 16, 1793 -
Died
Marie Anne Fornel (1704-1793) business woman of New France
|
| 1794 |
Births 1794:
January 27, 1794 - Born Marie-Rosalie Cadon
Jetté
(1794-1864) Sister Marie of the Nativity, social
activist
June 7, 1794 - Born
Marie Louise Dorval (1797-1866) a nun & Mother Superior
|
| 1795 |
Births
1795:
1795 - Born
James Miranda Stuart
Barry
(1795-1865),
the 1st 'woman' doctor in
the British Army(?) 1857
October 19, 1794 -
Born Eliza Lanesford Cushing (1794-1886) author,
playwright, & poet
Deaths 1795:
1795 - Died: Mikak (1740-1795) Travelled to
England and helped raise funds for Moravarian Missions in North
America
|
| 1796 |
1796
-
The town of York becomes the capital of Upper Canada
(Ontario).
Births 1796:
1796 - Died Molly Brant (1736-1796) aboriginal leader
1796 -
Born Mary McKenzie (1796-1886) early pioneer of the
Canadian North West
March 10, 1796 - Born Julia Catherine Hart
(1796-1867) author who wrote the 1st work of fiction by a native
born Canadian to be published in Canada
September 9, 1796 - Born Harriet Vaughn Cheney
(1796-1889) author & poet
December 30, 1796 - Born Mary Ann Soper
(1796-1862) itinerate Methodist preacher in Upper Canada
|
| 1798 |
December 29, 1798 -
Royal Assent is given to legislation recognizing
marriages not performed by the Church of England
Births
1798:
February 1798 -
Born Amelia Underhill Harris (1798-1882) diarist
Deaths 1798:
May 24, 1798 - Died
Elizabeth (Myich/Paine) Doane (1715-1798) pioneer of
Nova Scotia skilled in natural medicines and healing and
midwifery
|
| 1799 |
1799
- Jeanne Charlotte Allamande is the 1st recorded female art
teacher in Montréal, Quebec
Deaths 1799:
1799 -
Died Elizabeth Frances Hall (1774-1799) artist who
depicted early scenes in the Canadas
|
