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About 600 Blacks from Jamaica are deported to Nova Scotia . Known as Maroons, they help rebuild the Halifax Citadel . In 1800, most of them leave for Sierra Leone , Africa.

York becomes the capital of Upper Canada .

An American, named McLane, being convicted of high treason, is hanged on a gibbet, on the glacis of the fortifications, at Quebec . (Note - possibly 1797)

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