1796 in Canada
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Events from the year 1796 in Canada.
Incumbents
- Monarch: George III<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- York officially becomes the capital of Upper Canada.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Births
- March 10 – Julia Catherine Beckwith, author (d.1867)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- 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)
References
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