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1796 in Canada

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1796 in Canada

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Events from the year 1796 in Canada.

Incumbents

  • Monarch: George III

Federal government

  • Parliament of Lower Canada: 1st (until May 31)
  • Parliament of Upper Canada: 1st (until June 3)

Governors

  • Governor of the Canadas: Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester then Robert Prescott
  • Governor of New Brunswick: Thomas Carleton
  • Governor of Nova Scotia: John Wentworth
  • Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: John Elliot
  • Governor of St. John's Island: Edmund Fanning
  • Governor of Upper Canada: John Graves Simcoe

Events

  • About 600 Jamaican Maroons are deported from Jamaica to Nova Scotia. They helped rebuild the Halifax Citadel. In 1800, most petition to be sent to Sierra Leone, Africa.
  • York officially becomes the capital of Upper Canada.

Births

John Redpath in 1836
  • March 10 – Julia Catherine Beckwith, author (d.1867)
  • May 5 – Robert Foulis, inventor, civil engineer and artist (d.1866)
  • May 8 – Jean-Baptiste Meilleur, doctor, educator and politician (d.1878)
  • June – Thomas Brown Anderson, merchant, banker and politician (d.1873)
  • December 17 – Thomas Chandler Haliburton, author, judge and politician (d.1865)

Full date unknown

  • John Redpath, Scots-Quebecer businessman and philanthropist, Born in Earlston, Scottish Borders, Scotland. (d.1869)

Deaths

  • July 10 – Joseph Fairbanks, merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia. (b. 1718)

References

References

  1. (11 August 2017). "Kings and Queens of Canada".
  2. (May 25, 2019). "Verene A. Shepherd {{!}} My conversation with Canada's minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship".
  3. Barbara, Baillargeon. (15 April 2016). "Research Guide to York - Township, Borough and City - 1793-1997".
  4. Morgan, Henry J. (Henry James). (1903). "Types of Canadian women and of women who are or have been connected with Canada". Toronto : W. Briggs.
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