March 29 – April 26 British CaptainJames Cook exploresAlaskan coast, seekingNorthwest Passage back to theAtlantic. On the last of three voyages to the west coast, he travels as far north as theBering Strait and claims Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island for the British. While there, he trades for sea otter pelts. On the way back to England his crew almost mutinied, desperately wanting to go back to the Pacific Northwest, after stopping inChina and discovering how much seaotter pelts were worth.
The English overrun the southern states, but are weakened by a French blockade of shipping.
After landing atNootka Sound in August, former British naval captainJohn Meares arrives from Macao (sailing under the Portuguese flag) with 70 Chinese carpenters. He supervises the building of another ship and housing atNootka Sound as the post becomes the centre of the pelt and fur trades in the Pacific Northwest.
The original form of hockey is explained to pelters by the indigenous and soon after leads to the form of hockey seen today.
Spinning mule invented to spin multiple strands of yarn.
First treaty between the United States and an Indian nation is negotiated with the Delaware; they are offered the prospect of statehood
British and Iroquois forces attack and massacre American settlers in western New York and Pennsylvania.
"The government of Quebec is a legal parliamentarydespotism" - Governor and any "nine of the most profligate persons" can rule (Note: "savage" used)[19]
Montreal merchants offer $8 reward for capture of "Negro man named Jack" who has "Guinea accent" and "was lately purchased of Captain Covells"[24]
Smallhowitzer shell left onHandsel Monday wounds Margaret Callender's hands and eyes, for which she asks customers' and suppliers' consideration[25]
New husband'smisogeny toward letter writer and his friends' "Attachment to the Bottle" leave her doleful and "terrified to death" for his welfare[26]
School to open with instruction in reading, writing, arithmetic, bookkeeping, four languages etc., with emphasis on "exteriordeportment and behavior"[27]
Quebec Citystay-maker advertises products, skills, and knowledge of "the most early and newest fashions"[28]
"Province will be an object of the first consideration to the French" - Anticipating war with France, troops added to 2,800 infantrymen inNova Scotia[29]
Nova Scotia Council thanks Maj. Gen. Massey for defence of province, improvingHalifax defences and erecting "important post" on Saint John River[31]
Taken to Boston byprivateers,Benjamin Marston is re-imprisoned after brief house arrest, but learns "that a man may enjoy himself in prison"[32]
"Inhuman and cruel; poor miserable sick; suffered and died" - Remarks from account of mistreatment of imprisoned U.S. privateers in Halifax in 1777[33]
British deserter gives much useful information to U.S. commander in New York on naval and military comings and goings, mostly in Halifax[34]
Edward Winslow feels "noble indignation" seeing "scoundrels" who persecuteloyalists incommittees, Congress and "places confidential & lucrative"[35]
Late Margaret Green "was so mortified to theVanities[...]as to have little or no Relish of[...]Amusements[,] Pastimes, and useless frothy Entertainments"[36]
Privateers out of Boston, aided by Labrador locals ("traitors"), plunder £14,000-worth fromGeorge Cartwright's properties and take hisInuit servants[40]
"The finest sport that man ever had" - Cartwright huntsbears hunting salmon at rapids, pools and beautiful cascade on Eagle River, Labrador[41]
After Cartwright slaps Inuk servant Tweegock "for somesluttish and dirty tricks," he stops her from completing attempts to stab herself in heart[42]
Indigenous people's "ingenious[...]manufactures and mechanic arts" are quite unexpected, given "what little progress they have made incivilization"[46]
Illustrations: "Drawings byJohn Webber of Natives of the Northwest Coast of America" (1778) include people on Nootka Sound[47]
^"Advertisements; Run Away[....]" (Montreal, May 13, 1778), The Quebec Gazette,Nomb. 664 (May 21, 1778), pg. 3. Accessed 18 October 2022
^"To the Publick; Whereas I Margaret Callender[....]," The Quebec Gazette,Nomb. 649 (February 5, 1778), pg. 3. Accessed 18 October 2022
^"To the Printer of the Quebec Gazette" (Montreal, February 4, 1778), The Quebec Gazette,Nomb. 650 (February 12, 1778), pg. 1. (See alsoletter to Gazette (pgs. 1-3) from young woman assessing winners and losers among men seeking her hand) Accessed 18 October 2022
^"Advertisements; Academy and Boarding-School" (Quebec, November 19, 1778), The Quebec Gazette,Nomb. 690 (November 19, 1778), pg. 3. Accessed 19 October 2022
^"Advertisements; George Blacktin[....]," The Quebec Gazette,Nomb. 644 (January 1, 1778), pg. 3. Accessed 18 October 2022
^"London, April 16; Two battalions of foot[....]," The Quebec Gazette,Nomb. 678 (August 27, 1778), pg. 1. Accessed 19 October 2022
^"October 6," The Quebec Gazette,Nomb. 689 (November 12, 1778), pg. 3. Accessed 19 October 2022
^"Halifax, August 25; To Major-general Massey[....]," The Quebec Gazette,Nomb. 690 (November 19, 1778), pg. 2. Accessed 19 October 2022
^"Boston, Feb. 5," The Providence (Rhode Island) Gazette and Country Journal,Vol. XV, No. 737 (February 14, 1778), Page 1 of 2. Accessed 17 October 2022
^John Seccombe, "A Sermon, Occasioned by the Death of Mrs. Margaret Green[....]" (Halifax, February 1, 1778),pg. 13 Accessed 25 October 2022
^"Island of Saint John, Gulph of St. Lawrence" (Charlottetown, October 9, 1778), The Quebec Gazette,Nomb. 690 (November 19, 1778), pg. 4 (right column). Accessed 19 October 2022
^"Transactions with the natives of North America[....],"Captain Cook's Third and Last Voyage, to the Pacific Ocean[....] (abridged),pg. 117. (See also"Such of the natives as visited us daily" supply fish and oil) Accessed 13 October 2022
^"The design and execution[....],"Captain Cook's Third and Last Voyage, to the Pacific Ocean[....] (abridged),pg. 125. Accessed 13 October 2022
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