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1709 in Canada

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Events from the year 1709 in Canada.

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Intendant's ordinance proclaims Panis and Blacks who have been purchased are property to be known as slaves (Note: "savages" used)[8]

"Inhabitants remaining[...]are in a very bad condition" - Report to Queen Anne of aftermath of French attack on St. John's, Newfoundland[9]

"Rotten and decay'd" - Indigenous spies sent by New York government report Canadian fortifications (except at Quebec City) are poor[10]

"So great a plague to all Plantations in America" - New Englanders eager to attack Port Royal and its "nest of spoilers and robbers"[11]

Inhabitants of Buoys Island (off Ferryland, Newfoundland) get evacuation offer but stay to meet possible third French attack[12]

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    "Biography – PASTOUR DE COSTEBELLE, PHILIPPE – Volume II (1701-1740) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
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    "Government House Table of Contents". www.heritage.nf.ca. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
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    "Torture and Truth: Angélique and the Burning of Montreal". www.canadianmysteries.ca. Retrieved 2023-02-08.
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    Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/owc/9780199540211.001.0001/owc-9780199540211-chapter-1;jsessionid=489f2be39b2acb7d68e87431087f312d. ISBN 978-0-19-195632-4.
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    Jacques Raudot, "Ordinance relative to slavery in Canada" (translation; April 13, 1709), Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 19 July 2021
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    "139 Council of Trade and Plantations to the Queen" (February 23, 1710). Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 25, 1710-1711. Accessed 4 February 2021
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    621iv a) and b); Reports of spies returned from Canada (1709). Accessed 28 January 2021
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    794; Letter of Governor Dudley et al. (Boston, October 24, 1709), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 24, 1708-1709. Accessed 28 January 2021
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    Richard Amiss and 38 others, Petition to Governor Joseph Dudley of Massachusetts (May 1709). Accessed 28 January 2021
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