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1793
Events from the year 1793 in Canada.
Incumbents
Monarch: George IIIKings and Queens of Canada https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/royal-family/kings-queens.html#e2 aem 24 February 2021 11 August 2017
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 Wentworth
Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: John Elliot
Governor of St. John's Island: Edmund Fanning
Governor of Upper Canada: John Graves Simcoe
Events
May 9 – First Parliament, of Lower Canada prorogued.
July 9 – Act Against Slavery passed into law, making Upper Canada the first British territory to bring in legislation against slavery, although it did not abolish slavery entirely.
Alexander Mackenzie reaches Pacific Ocean at Bella Coola.APPENDIX ONE http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1w1vmk7.7 First Man West 311–313 2023-05-13 MQUP 10.2307/j.ctt1w1vmk7.7 subscription
David Thompson surveys Muskrat Country west of Hudson Bay.
HBC Brandon House established on the Assiniboine River, outpost for trade south and southwest to Missouri and Yellowstone.
Mackenzie reaches the Pacific at Dean Channel.
Merchant vessels first navigate Lake Ontario.
Births
March 24 : François-Xavier Paré, politician.
Deaths
March 30 : François-Marie Picoté de Belestre, colonial soldier.
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