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1799 in Canada

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Events from the year 1799 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 then Robert Milnes
  • 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 then Peter Hunter

Events

  • David Thompson marries Charlotte Small
  • North West Company establishes a fur post at Rocky Mountain House, Alberta. The nearby Hudson's Bay Company fur post which is also established at this time is called Acton House.
  • Alexander Mackenzie resigns from North West Company
  • George Vancouver's Journeys to the North Pacific Ocean published in London
  • Handsome Lake, a Seneca chief, founds the Longhouse religion
  • Russian-American Fur Company chartered; launches aggressive policy in Aleutians and on Northwest Coast.
  • American competition for West Indies trade kills Liverpool, Nova Scotia's merchant fleet.
  • Alexander Baranov establishes Russian post known today as Old Sitka; trade charter grants exclusive trading rights to the Russian American Company.
  • Vermont answers Indian chiefs, in Canada, that their claims were extinguished by treaties of 1763 and 1783 between France, Great Britain and the United States.
  • Two cases are filed challenging slavery in New Brunswick: R v Jones and R v Agnew.

Births

  • September 8 – Sir William Young, Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1887)
  • October 30 – Ignace Bourget, bishop of the Diocese of Montreal (d.1885)

Full date unknown

  • Joseph Cunard, merchant, shipbuilder and politician (d.1865)

Deaths

  • January 15 – Alexander McKee, agent for the Indian Department (b.1735)

Full date unknown

  • Philip Turnor, HBC inland surveyor (b.1751)

References

References

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