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1798 in Canada

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Events from the year 1798 in Canada.

Incumbents

  • Monarch: George III

Federal government

  • Parliament of Lower Canada: 2nd
  • Parliament of Upper Canada: 2nd

Governors

  • Governor of the Canadas: 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

  • David Thompson travels to Mandan villages and charts headwaters of Mississippi River.
  • A new fur trading company is formed to compete with the North West Company. Confusingly called the New North West Company, it is nicknamed the XY Company later on.
  • Indian chiefs, in Canada, claim from Vermont an equivalent of the greater part of Addison, Chittenden, Franklin and Grand Isle counties. They get their expenses to-and-fro.

Births

  • February 19 – Allan MacNab, businessman, soldier, lawyer and politician (died 1862)
  • April 3 – Louis Lacoste, politician (died 1878)
  • April 20 – William Edmond Logan, geologist (died 1875)
  • April 26, – Charles-François Baillargeon, Archbishops of Quebec (died 1870)

Deaths

  • May 10 – George Vancouver, naval officer, explorer (b.1757)
  • December 25 – Elias Hardy, lawyer and office-holder (b.1744)

Full date unknown

  • Esteban José Martínez Fernández y Martínez de la Sierra, naval officer (b.1742)

References

References

  1. (11 August 2017). "Kings and Queens of Canada".
  2. "Archives of Manitoba {{!}} Keystone Archives Descriptive Database".
  3. (1988-12-31). "Canadian Economic History".
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