1803 in Canada

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Events from the year 1803 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

  • Monarch: George III

Federal government[]

  • Parliament of Lower Canada: 3rd
  • Parliament of Upper Canada: 3rd

Governors[]

  • Governor of the Canadas: Robert Milnes
  • Governor of New Brunswick: Thomas Carleton
  • Governor of Nova Scotia: John Wentworth
  • Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Charles Morice Pole
  • Governor of St. John's Island: Edmund Fanning

Events[]

  • Thomas Jefferson completes Louisiana Purchase extending U.S. control west of the Mississippi River; federal plans to resettle Eastern tribes beyond the Mississippi soon begin.
  • John Colter becomes the fourth man selected by William Clark to join the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
  • The XY Company is reorganized under Alexander Mackenzie's name.
  • First Canadian Paper Mill is built in Quebec.[1]

Births[]

  • October 13 – Augustin-Norbert Morin, lawyer, judge, politician and Joint Premier of the Province of Canada (d.1865)
  • March 24 – Egerton Ryerson, politician, teacher, principal, Methodist minister (d.1882)
  • December 6 – Susanna Moodie, writer (d.1885)

Full date unknown[]

  • John Kinder Labatt, brewer and founder of the Labatt Brewing Company (d.1866)

Deaths[]

  • Nathaniel Pettit (1724 – March 9, 1803) a political figure in Upper Canada.
  • Rev. Johann Samuel Schwerdtfeger (1734–1803) The first Lutheran minister in Ontario.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/sunday/
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2021-01-26. Retrieved 2015-01-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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