1796 in Canada
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Events from the year 1796 in Canada.
Incumbents
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.[2]
- York officially becomes the capital of Upper Canada.[3]
Births
- March 10 – Julia Catherine Beckwith, author (d.1867)[4]
- 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
- ^ "Kings and Queens of Canada". aem. 11 August 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
- ^ "Verene A. Shepherd | My conversation with Canada's minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship". The Gleaner. May 25, 2019. Archived from the original on September 24, 2022. Retrieved May 12, 2023.
- ^ Barbara, Baillargeon (15 April 2016). "Research Guide to York - Township, Borough and City - 1793-1997". Toronto Public Library. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
- ^ Morgan, Henry J. (Henry James) (1903). Types of Canadian women and of women who are or have been connected with Canada. Robarts - University of Toronto. Toronto : W. Briggs. p. 152.