1798 in Canada
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Events from the year 1798 in Canada.
Incumbents
- Monarch: George III<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Federal government
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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 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
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