1792 in Canada

Events from the year 1792 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: George III

Federal government

• Parliament of Lower Canada — 1st
• Parliament of Upper Canada — 1st

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
• Governor of Upper Canada: John Graves Simcoe

Events

• Catherine II grants a monopoly of furs in Alaska to Grigorii Shelikov.
• Captain George Vancouver begins his explorations of the British Columbia Coast.
• Many Black Loyalists in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia migrate to Sierra Leone in West Africa, mainly because the promises of land in Canada were not kept by the British.
• May 7 – Lower Canada is divided into 21 counties.
• August – the 1st Parliament of Upper Canada is elected.
• October 15 – The law of England is introduced in Upper Canada.

• December 20 – A fortnightly mail is established between Canada and the United States.
• December – A bill to abolish slavery in Lower Canada does not pass.

Births

• February 9 – Thomas Cooke, missionary, and the first Bishop of Trois Rivières (d.1870)
• August 29 – James William Johnston, lawyer, politician, and judge (d.1873)

Deaths

• November – Samuel Hearne, explorer, fur-trader, author, and naturalist (b.1745)

Full date unknown

• Marguerite-Thérèse Lemoine Despins (March 23, 1722 – June 6, 1792) was a mother superior of the Sisters of Charity of the Hôpital Général of Montreal. (b.1722)
• Thomas Peters, black Loyalist and founding father of Sierra Leone (b.1738)

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