1787 in Canada

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Events from the year 1787 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[]

• HBC David Thompson wintered with Piegans on Bow River.
• Prince William Henry (future William IV) lands at Quebec.
• At an investigation into judicial abuses, it is stated that one judge takes wine to excess, before taking his seat on the Bench; and that another habitually disregards the pertinent French law and applies the law of England.
• Toronto Purchase

Births[]

• February 10 – John McDonald, businessman and political figure (d.1860)
• February 12 – Norbert Provencher, clergyman, missionary and Bishop (d.1853)
• November 12 – Pierre-Flavien Turgeon, Archbishop of Quebec (d.1867)
• November 9 – William MacBean George Colebrooke, lieutenant governor of New Brunswick (d.1870)

Deaths[]

• April 14 – Benjamin Frobisher, fur-trader (b. 1742)

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