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1700 AD to 1799 AD
Events listed relate to Canadian women with a few extra items added to give the timeline perspective.

This timeline is not all inclusive.

The timeline  was fun to prepare and hopefully it will be fun to read.  Perhaps it will even be  useful.

Events listed are drawn from various sources including those listed on other areas of http://famouscanadianwomen.com

If you wish more information on the women listed in this timeline be sure and check out the birthdays listed in
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Last updated December  2012

DATES

EVENTS
1700
 		 Deaths 1700:
January 12, 1700 - Died Marguerite Bourgeoys  (1620-1700) founder of the the Congregation de Notre Dame at Montreal.
1701 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.
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.
1715 Birth s 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 (ca 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.
1722 Births 1722:
March 23, 1722 - Born Margureite Thérèse Lemoine Despins (1722-1792) the second Mother Superior of the Grey Nuns.
1730 Deaths 1730:
April 8, 1730 - Died Marie Morin (Baptized (1649-1730), the first Canadian born woman to become a religious sister.
June 28, 1730 - Marie Joseph Angélique,(1710 ca- 1730)  a back slave who set fire to Montreal to mask her escape with her lover.
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
1737
 		 1737 - Marguerite d’Youville, (1737-1771) and some friends in Montreal, begin taking in the poor and educating abandoned children. (Source DCB)
1738 1738 - Esther Brandeau , in the guise of a cabin boy, is the first Jewish woman to arrive in Canada. Eventually she is deported to France for failing to embrace the Roman Catholic religion. (Source: DCB)
1740 Births 1740:
1740 - Born Mikak (1740-1795) Travelled to England and helped raise funds for Moravarian Missions in North America.
1744 Deaths 1744:
July 1, 1744 - Died Catherine Jérémie de Lamontagne (1664-1744)midwife and amateur botanist.
1745 Births 1745:
1745 - Born Frances Brooks (1745-1789) novelist who wrote the first novel in North America.
1747 1747 - Marguerite d'Youville (- 1771) founds the Sisters of Charity or the Grey Nuns of Montreal. (Source : DCB)

Deaths 1747:
August 8, 1747 - Died Madelaine de Verchères, (1678-1747) youth heroine of New France..
1748  
1749 Births 1749:
1749 - Born Mary Barbara Fisher (1749-1841)  Loyalist pioneer of Canadian Maritimes.
1752
 		 March 23,1752 - Elizabeth Bushell shares with her father in the establishing of the first Canadian printing office and Canada's first newspaper, the weekly Halifax Gazette begins publishing. Source: Women in the Canadian book trade . National Library of Canada http://nlc-bnc.ca (accessed January 2002)

Births 1752:
1752- Born Charlotte Taylor (1752(?)-1841), Mother of Tabusintac. New Brunswick. * May have been born between 1752-1755)

1753 1753 - Maruerite 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.
September 27, 1755- Born Marie Anne Paquet (de Saint Olivier) (1755-1831) Ursuline Mother Superior.
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 first 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.
1760 Births 1760:
April 16, 1760 - Born Jeanne Charlotte Allamand Berczy (1760-1839) Pioneer, painter, teacher and one of the founders of Toronto society.
1762 Births 1762:
August 13, 1762- Born Marie-Henriette LeJeune Ross 'Granny Ross' pioneer scientist and medical pioneer settler.
1763 Deaths 1763:
April 18, 1763 (?) - Died Marie-Josephite Corriveau (1733-1763) La Corriveau, condemned for murdering her husband.
1764 Deaths 1764:
February 26, 1764 - Died Thérése de Couagne (1697-1764), astute business woman of New France.
1766 Births 1766:
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 Hoople (1757-1858) a pioneer woman known as the Medicine Maid, she used natural remedies to help the sick.
1768  
1770 Births 1770:
November 11, 1770 - Born Ann Kirby Macaulay (1770-1850) A loyalist she 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  
1775 Births 1775:
1775 - Born Margaret McLaughlin (1775 ? - 1860) pioneer of the Canadian northwest.
 
1776 April 1, 1776 - The first United Empire Loyalists refugees from the American Revolution arrive in Halifax Nova Scotia. Eventually some 40, 000 will settle in various areas in Canada.
1780
 		 Births 1780:
February 1780 - Born Marguerite-Magdelaine La Framboise (1780-1846)  Fur trader and entrepreneur.
 August 2, 1780 - Born Marie-Anne Lagemodiére,  (1780-1875.)  one of the first white women to visit such outposts as Red River and Fort Edmonton.

Deaths 1780:
November 28, 1780 - Died Ester Wheelwright (1696-1780), kidnapped by Indians, she would be brought to New France where she grew up and became Mother Superior of the Ursuline Order.
1781 Deaths 1781:
1781 - Died Catherine Quevillon Papineau (1686-1781) pioneer and matriarch of the famous Papineau Family.
1783 1783 Mohawk Molly Brant was 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

1783 - With the end of the American Revolution, United Empire Loyalists emigrate to the British colonies in Canada.

Births 1783:
November 29, 1783 Born Susan Sibbald, (1783-1866) pioneer and diarist.
1785 1785 - Barbara Heck and 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 first woman to run a newspaper, The Patriot, in Toronto.

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) Canadian Pioneer.
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 Sauvagess 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 http://tdi.uregina.ca/~maguirec/chron.htm (accessed April 28, 2003)

Births 1789:
1789 - Born Catherine McPherson (1789c-1876) Pioneer settler of the Red River settlement.

Deaths 1789:
Died Frances Brooks (1745-1789) novelist who wrote the first novel in North America.
1790 Births 1790:
1790 - Born - Nancy McTavish Leblanc (1790-1851) Aboriginal name Matooskie. Métis pioneer of western Canada fur trade era.
1791 1791 - New Brunswick passes a law excluding women from the right to vote.
Births 1791:
April 30, 1791 -  Born Marie Catherine Huot / Sister Sainte -Madeleine. (1791-1869) Appointed 3 times as Mother superior of her order.
1792 Deaths 1792:
June 6, 1792 - Died Margureite 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.

Deaths 1793:
November 16, 1793 - Died  Marie Anne Fornel (1704-1793) business woman of New France.
1794 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 and letter writer.
1795 Births 1795:
1795 - Born James Miranda Stuart Barry (1795-1865), the first “woman” doctor in the British Army(?) 1857.
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.

Births 1796:
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 first work of fiction by a native born Canadian to be published in Canada.

 
1798 Births 1798:
1798 - Born  Susannah Oland (1798-1886) brewer and businesswoman
February 1798 - Born Amelia 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 Allamand is the first recorded female art teacher in Montréal, Quebec. (Source: www.canadianstudies.ab.ca (accessed May 2002)
   

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