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1785 in Canada

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Events from the year 1785 in Canada.

Incumbents

  • Monarch: George III

Governors

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

Events

  • North West Company strengthened far west trade through such forts as Athabasca and English River.
  • May 18: The city of Saint John, New Brunswick is incorporated.
  • Fredericton opens a Provincial Academy of Arts and Sciences, the germ of the University of New Brunswick (1859).
  • New Brunswick is separated from Nova Scotia
  • Du Calvet proposes Canadian representation in the British Parliament, three members, each, for the Districts of Quebec and Montreal.
  • To a proposed Elective Legislature, it is objected that French Canadians do not wish to change their customary laws, and that there are not enough fit men to compose a Legislature.
  • Isaac Brock takes command of the 49th Foot, which would be the backbone of the British Empire forces in Canada during the War of 1812.
  • Mohawk Chapel, the oldest church in Ontario, was constructed near Brantford, Ontario.

Births

  • January 4: Louis-Théodore Besserer, notary, soldier, politician, and businessman (d.1861)
  • January 30: Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe, colonial administrator (d.1846)
  • February 4: Frédéric-Auguste Quesnel, politician, lawyer, and businessman (d.1866)
  • February 15: William Crane, merchant, justice of the peace, judge, and politician (d.1853)
  • April 27: Amable Éno, dit Deschamps, political figure (d.1875)
  • September 17: Jacob De Witt, businessman, politician, and justice of the peace (d.1859)
  • November 25: Andrew Stuart, lawyer, politician, office holder, and author (d.1840)
  • December 14: Michel-Louis Juchereau Duchesnay, army and militia officer, seigneur, jp, and office holder (d.1838)

Full date unknown

  • William Abrams, businessman, jp, judge, office holder, and militia officer (d.1844)
  • François Lesieur Desaulniers, farmer and political figure (d.1870)
  • John Heckman, political figure (d.1871)
  • Caleb Hopkins, farmer and politician (d.1880)
  • Peter Robinson, politician, Peterborough, Ontario renamed in his honour (d.1838)

References

References

  1. (11 August 2017). "Kings and Queens of Canada".
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