1809 in Canada

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November 3: John Molson's steamboat, Accommodation, starts for Quebec City. It is 85 feet overall, has a 6 horsepower engine, and makes the distance in 36 hours, but stops at night and reaches Quebec on November 6. The Accommodation is the second steamboat in America, and probably the world.
From 1809 to 1811, Tecumseh, Shawnee chief, and the Prophet campaign to unite tribes of the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, and Southeast against the United States. His brother Tenskwatawa, the Shawnee Prophet, is defeated at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811.
From 1809 to 1823, Sequoyah single-handedly creates a Cherokee syllabic alphabet so that his people's language can be written.
Napoleon's continental blockade cuts British access to Scandinavian timber.
American President James Madison reinstates the embargo on British trade.
The North West Company builds Fort Gibraltar. The fort was erected in the vicinity of the Hudson's Bay Company's continental headquarters of Fort Douglas.