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1796 in Canada
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1796
Events from the year 1796 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 (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.May 25, 2019 Verene A. Shepherd My conversation with Canada's minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20190525/verene-shepherd-my-conversation-canadas-minister-immigration-refugees live https://web.archive.org/web/20220924161252/https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20190525/verene-shepherd-my-conversation-canadas-minister-immigration-refugees September 24, 2022 May 12, 2023 The Gleaner
York officially becomes the capital of Upper Canada.Barbara Baillargeon 15 April 2016 Research Guide to York - Township, Borough and City - 1793-1997 https://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/local-history-genealogy/2016/04/research-guide-to-the-former-city-of-york-1793-1997.html 5 April 2024 Toronto Public Library
Births
thumb|right|100px|John Redpath in 1836
March 10 – Julia Catherine Beckwith, author (d.1867)Morgan Henry J. (Henry James) http://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft Types of Canadian women and of women who are or have been connected with Canada 1903 Toronto : W. Briggs Robarts - University of Toronto 152
May 5 – Robert Foulis, inventor, civil engineer and artist (d.1866)
May 8 – Jean-Baptiste Meilleur, doctor, educator and politician (d.1878)
June – Thomas Brown Anderson, merchant, banker and politician (d.1873)
December 17 – 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 – Joseph Fairbanks, merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia. (b. 1718)
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