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Contents
Key Events
and Chronology of the Canadian Postal Service - 1789
Interesting Additional Information
Source :
Civilization.ca - A Chronology of the Canadian Postal Service
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In the years immediately following the American Revolution,
British North America experiences an influx of disbanded soldiers and
others loyal and sympathetic to the British cause. Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick, the eastern townships of what is shortly to become Lower
Canada, the eastern counties of the future Upper Canada along the St.
Lawrence River, and the Niagara area are quickly settled. The population
soon petitions for postal services in and to their areas. The
Québec Gazette reports that “a post will be dispatched
every four weeks” to post offices opened along the St. Lawrence River
at “La Chine, Cedars, Coteau du Lac, Charlottenburg, Cornwall, New
Johnstown, Lancaster, Oznaburg, Matilda, Williamsburg, Edwardsburg,
Oswegatché, Augusta, Elizabethtown, and Kingstown.” While
regular service ends at Kingston, occasional mail trips are made to
Niagara, Detroit and Michilimackinac.
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A Montréal lawyer, Arthur Davidson, writes to his London
tailor, John Chalmers, asking that he cancel Davidson’s subscription
to a London newspaper that has been sent to him previously through the
Post Office by the packet mail via Halifax or New York, depending on the
season. Instead, he hopes that Chalmers will arrange to have a paper sent
to him from time to time via the regular, commercial shipping to Quebec.
His action typifies widespread mail customs and
conventions
of the time.
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