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1788 in Canada

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Events from the year 1788 in Canada.

Incumbents

  • Monarch: George III

Governors

  • Governor of the Canadas: Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
  • Governor of New Brunswick: Thomas Carleton
  • Governor of Nova Scotia: John Parr
  • Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: John Elliot
  • Governor of St. John's Island: Edmund Fanning

Events

  • Attorney-General Monk and Solicitor-General Williams are of opinion that, as the Jesuits have no civil existence as a Canadian corporation, their estates accrue to the Crown.
  • Ontario is divided into five districts, under English law.

Births

  • January 1 – Peter Warren Dease, HBC officer and Arctic explorer (d.1863)
  • October 14 – Sir Edward Sabine, soldier and scientist (d.1883)
  • December 31 – Alexander Rankin, timber merchant, justice of the peace, politician, and office holder (d.1852)

References

References

  1. (11 August 2017). "Kings and Queens of Canada".
  2. (February 2019). "Districts of Ontario". www.archives.org.
  3. "[http://collections.dartmouth.edu/arctica-beta/html/EA15-21.html Peter Warren Dease]", Dartmouth College Library Encyclopedia Arctica, Retrieved August 26, 2016
  4. "[http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp03933/sir-edward-sabine Sir Edward Sabine]", National Portrait Gallery, Retrieved August 26, 2016
  5. John Rankin. (1908). "A History of Our Firm: Some Account of the Firm of Pollok, Gilmour and Co. and Its Offshoots and Connections". author at the University Press of Liverpool.
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