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1792 in Canada
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Events from the year 1792 in Canada.
Incumbents
[edit]Federal government
[edit]Governors
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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.[2]
- 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
[edit]- February 9 – Thomas Cooke, missionary, and the first Bishop of Trois Rivières (d.1870)[3]
- August 29 – James William Johnston, lawyer, politician, and judge (d.1873)
Deaths
[edit]- November – Samuel Hearne, explorer, fur-trader, author, and naturalist (b.1745)
Full date unknown
[edit]- 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)
References
[edit]- ^ "Kings and Queens of Canada". aem. 11 August 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
- ^ Archives of Ontario "Library". Archived from the original on 11 June 2011. Retrieved 2009-12-07.
- ^ Voisine, Nive (1976). "Cooke, Thomas". In Halpenny, Francess G. (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. IX (1861–1870) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
