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Here are the 120+ newspaper articles, diary entries, and government sources related to Canada’s Year Without a Summer and its after-effects, from 1816 and 1817, organized by creator.
To view them organized by date, click here.
Newspapers
- Canadian Courant
- Kingston Gazette
- Montreal Gazette
- Montreal Herald
- New Brunswick Courier
- New Brunswick Royal Gazette
- Newfoundland Royal Gazette
- Nova Scotia Acadian Recorder
- Nova Scotia Royal Gazette
- Quebec Gazette
- Quebec Mercury
Diaries
- George Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie, Governor of Nova Scotia 1816-20
- Azor Hoyt, Lower Norton Shore, King’s County, New Brunswick
- Tredway Thomas Odber Miles, Maugerville, New Brunswick
- Rev. Frederick Dibblee, an Anglican minister in Woodstock Parish in the centre of New Brunswick.
Government sources
- Journal of the House of Assembly, Lower-Canada
- Journal of the House of Assembly of Prince Edward Island
- Appendix to the … Journals of the House of Assembly of the province of Lower-Canada
Other Sources
- Mandements: Lettres Pastorales et Circulaires des Évêques de Québec, dirs. Henri Têtu et C.-O. Gagnon (Québec: Imprimerie générale A. Coté, 1888), vol. III.
There is another diary that you should be included here – that of Benjamin Benedict Crawford, Loyalist, of Kings Co. NB. The diary covers many years but the data for 1816 and 1817 are especially of interest in relation to this project. He was a farmer and kept detailed notes re: weather, snow still in the fields in June, crop failures, river conditions on the St. John and Kennebecasis Rivers, etc. There is a transcribed copy at the local museum, the Kings County Museum, in Hampton. Their contact email is kingscm@nbnet.nb.ca.
Thank you for putting this information together. I have enjoyed reading the historical documents.