1798 in Canada

none April 2026 September 2023 1798 Events from the year 1798 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: 2nd Parliament of Upper Canada: 2nd Governors Governor of the Canadas: 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 David Thompson travels to Mandan villages and charts headwaters of Mississippi River. A new fur trading company is formed to compete with the North West Company. Confusingly called the New North West Company, it is nicknamed the XY Company later on.Archives of Manitoba Keystone Archives Descriptive Database http://pam.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/PAM_AUTHORITY/WEB_AUTH_DET_REP/HEADING%20%22XY%20Company%22?SESSIONSEARCH 2023-05-13 pam.minisisinc.com enEasterbrook W.T. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/9781442623279 Canadian Economic History Aitken Hugh 1988-12-31 168 10.3138/9781442623279 9781442623279 Indian chiefs, in Canada, claim from Vermont an equivalent of the greater part of Addison, Chittenden, Franklin and Grand Isle counties. They get their expenses to-and-fro. Births February 19 – Allan MacNab, businessman, soldier, lawyer and politician (died 1862) April 3 – Louis Lacoste, politician (died 1878) April 20 – William Edmond Logan, geologist (died 1875) April 26, – Charles-François Baillargeon, Archbishops of Quebec (died 1870) Deaths May 10 – George Vancouver, naval officer, explorer (b.1757) December 25 – Elias Hardy, lawyer and office-holder (b.1744) Full date unknown Esteban José Martínez Fernández y Martínez de la Sierra, naval officer (b.1742) References 1798 in 98