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1796 in Canada
Events from the year
1796 in Canada
.
Incumbents
Monarch
:
George III
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.
York
officially becomes the capital of
Upper Canada
.
Births
March 10 âÂÂ
Julia Catherine Beckwith
, author (d.
1867
)
May 5 âÂÂ
Robert Foulis
, inventor, civil engineer and artist (d.
1866
)
May 8 âÂÂ
Jean-Baptiste Meilleur
, doctor, educator and politician (d.
1878
)
June âÂÂ
Thomas Brown Anderson
, merchant, banker and politician (d.
1873
)
December 17 âÂÂ
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 âÂÂ
Joseph Fairbanks
, merchant and political figure in
Nova Scotia
. (b.
1718
)
References