1784 in Canada

Incumbents

• Monarch – George III

Governors

• Governor of the Province of Quebec – Frederick Haldimand
• Governor of Nova Scotia – John Parr
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland – John Byron
• Governor of St. John's Island – Walter Patterson

Events

• August 16 – In response to Loyalist demands, the Crown creates New Brunswick out of Nova Scotia. New Brunswick was then divided into eight counties.
• North West Company built up Grand portage as a general summer rendezvous for all companies and free traders, drawing furs from as far as Oregon and the Arctic Circle.
• David Thompson began his apprenticeship on Hudson Bay.
• James Cook's journal of his last voyage published in London.
• Ward Chipman the Elder, a Massachusetts lawyer, settled in New Brunswick, where he served as solicitor general until 1808.
• Butler's Rangers were disbanded in June 1784, and its veterans were given land grants in the Nassau District, now the Niagara region of Ontario, as a reward for their services to the British Crown.

Births

• June 21 – Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet, army officer and colonial administrator (d.1854)
• October 19 – John McLoughlin, physician, fur trader, and merchant (d.1857)

Deaths

• January 28 – Henry Allen, evangelist, hymnist, and theologian (b.1748)
• December 13 – Dr. Samuel Johnson dies in London. (b.1709)

Full date unknown

• Laurence Coughlan, Methodist preacher, Church of England clergyman, and local official

References

References

1. (11 August 2017). "Kings and Queens of Canada".
2. "SEARCHABLE ONLINE DATA – New Brunswick, Canada / Canadian Genealogy & History Information".