February 1814 Timeline-- Part 1: By Water and Overland

All these dates are from the historicplaces website by Canada. I find this to be the best timeline available for the war.

FEBRUARY 2ND-3RD: Sir James Lucas Yeo needed crews for two ships he had under construction at Kingston, Upper Canada, on Lake Ontario. Two divisions (217 men) were sent to him from the HMS Fantome and HMS Arab.  On these dates they left Fredericton for the Canadas.

They had sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Saint John, New Brunswick, and then traveled by land to Quebec City, Lower Canada. The citizens of Saint John provided the sailors with sleighs.

They departed Jan. 29-30 from there. They then left Fredericton Feb. 2nd and 3rd. Arrived Quebec on March 1st.

Some 440 men of the 2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment, followed right behind them, arriving in Quebec March 10th.

--Brock-Perry