File 2007-062/004(2) - The times (London)

1 folder of textual records

File consists of a broken run of the newspaper acquired by Sheldon and Judy Godfrey due to the North American content, such as: article on meeting "for the purpose of arranging a Subscription for the relief of the Sufferers in the British provinces of North America" with list of donations by various politicians, merchants, etc. (7 July 1813); news of the War on Lake Ontario and the Battle of Lake Erie from Halifax papers (9 October 1813); revolt of Spanish colonies: capture of Amelia Island (Florida) by Americans, with troops going next to St. Augustine, as well as reports of disagreement on American and British commissioners in fixing the boundary line between British North America and the United States, following the Treaty of Ghent (11 August 1817); report of a "Distressing Fire at Newfoundland" (at Carbonear) on 18 June (30 August 1817); Lord Selkirk sent from Quebec to investigate hostilities between employees of the Hudson Bay Co. and the North West Company in "the North West Country" (30 September 1817); analysis of difficulties in the Newfoundland trade (26 November 1817); extracts from the Newfoundland Royal Gazette & Mercantile Journal on the fire in St. John's on 7 and 21 November 7 & 21, 1817 (9 December 1817); accounts of the fire from private letters (10 December 1817).