1788 in Canada

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Events from the year 1788 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[]

  • Attorney-General Monk and Solicitor-General Williams are of opinion that, as the Jesuits have no civil existence as a Canadian corporation, their estates accrue to the Crown.
  • Ontario is divided into five districts,[1] under English law.

Births[]

  • January 1 – Peter Warren Dease, HBC officer and Arctic explorer (d.1863)[2]
  • October 14 – Sir Edward Sabine, soldier and scientist (d.1883)[3]
  • December 31 – Alexander Rankin, timber merchant, justice of the peace, politician, and office holder (d.1852)[4]

Deaths[]

References[]

  1. ^ Districts of Ontario, www.archives.org, retrieved 12 March 2015[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Peter Warren Dease", Dartmouth College Library Encyclopedia Arctica, Retrieved August 26, 2016
  3. ^ "Sir Edward Sabine", National Portrait Gallery, Retrieved August 26, 2016
  4. ^ John Rankin (1908). A History of Our Firm: Some Account of the Firm of Pollok, Gilmour and Co. and Its Offshoots and Connections. author at the University Press of Liverpool. pp. 58–.
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