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1789 in Canada

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Events from the year 1789 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

  • 1789–93 – Alexander Mackenzie of Canada, seeking northern river route to the Pacific, travels to the Arctic Ocean; on second journey he crosses continent by land, making contact with many tribes.
  • Alexander Mackenzie journeys to the Beaufort Sea, following what would later be named the Mackenzie River.
  • David Thompson learns surveying from Philip Turnor.
  • Lord Grenville proposes that lands in Upper Canada be held in free and common soccage, and that the tenure of Lower Canadian lands be optional with the inhabitants.

Births

  • November 13 – Denis-Benjamin Papineau, joint premier of the Province of Canada (died 1854)

References

References

  1. (11 August 2017). "Kings and Queens of Canada".
  2. Gutman, Judith Mara. ''Through Indian Eyes''. New York: Oxford UP, 1982. Print.
  3. Belton, Robert James. ''Sights of Resistance: Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture''. Calgary: U of Calgary, 2001. Print.
  4. Glover, Richard (ed.), ''David Thompson's Narrative, 1784–1812''. Champlain Society : Toronto, 1962.
  5. Terrill, Frederick William. ''A Chronology of Montreal and of Canada from A.D. 1752 to A.D. 1893 ...''Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1988. Print.
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