FACTOID #53: If you thought Antarctica was inhospitable, think again - its land area is only ninety-eight percent ice. Reassuringly, the other 2% is categorised as "barren rock".
January 5 - Sir George Prevost dies before consideration of Commodore Yeo's charges; but the Duke of Wellington says: "He must have returned, after the fleet was beaten, I am inclined to think he was right. I have told ministers, repeatedly, that naval superiority, on the Lakes, is a sine qua non of success in war on the frontiers of Canada, even if our object should be wholly defensive."
June 19 - After several years of harassment by agents of the North West Company, Metis and Indians under Cuthbert Grant kill Robert Semple, governor of the Red River settlement, and twenty others at the Battle of Seven Oaks.
The War of 1812 between Britain and the United States briefly paused immigration to Upper and Lower Canada and the Maritimes.
By 1825, these lands were being sold to land grant companies like the Canada Company for the purposes of settlement, which brought the issue of Crown reserves back to the forefront among those agitating for more responsible government.
The Canada Company was a private firm, the brainchild of John Galt, whose sole purpose was to sell land to settlers.
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