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Visit from Joseph Bouchette to Lake Temiscouata

Terrible Crop leaves Long Family In Perilous Condition

Letter from Colonel Foster to William Henry Robinson - Favourable Response to REquest by Philip Long

Marriage between Marie-Judith Long and Jacques Bezeau

Key Events and Chronology of the Canadian Postal Service - 1815

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Visit from Joseph Bouchette to Lake Temiscouata

Visit from Joseph Bouchette, Surveyor General for Canada.  This trip led to his lithograph of Long’s Farm which he included in his book on page 556 on the Topography of Canada published in 1815.  

Terrible Crop leaves Long Family In Perilous Condition

A terrible crop year descended on the Long family in Lake Temiscouata and Philip found himself writing a letter, dated November 15th, 1815, seeking help from Governor General Drummond, a man he says he knew.  It is likely he met him when Sherbrooke was the commander of the newly created regiment after the landings in Saint-John in 1783.  

Letter from C. Foster, Military Secretary, to William Henry Robinson, Esquire, Commissary General, on November 20, 1815, Quebec City.

Marriage between Marie-Judith Long and Jacques Bezeau

Marriage between Marie-Judith Long and Jacques Bezeau on May 9, 1815 at the Notre Dame de Quebec Cathedral.

Key events of 1815

History - Chronology of the Postal Service in Canada

Interesting additional information