1792 in Canada
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Events
- Catherine II grants a monopoly of furs in AlaskaAlaskaAlaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...
to Grigorii Shelikov. - Captain George VancouverGeorge VancouverCaptain George Vancouver RN was an English officer of the British Royal Navy, best known for his 1791-95 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of contemporary Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon...
begins his explorations of the British Columbia CoastBritish Columbia CoastThe British Columbia Coast or BC Coast is Canada's western continental coastline on the Pacific Ocean. The usage is synonymous with the term West Coast of Canada....
. - A large number of the Black Loyalists in New BrunswickNew BrunswickNew Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...
and Nova ScotiaNova ScotiaNova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...
migrate to Sierra LeoneSierra LeoneSierra Leone , officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north and east, Liberia to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and southwest. Sierra Leone covers a total area of and has an estimated population between 5.4 and 6.4...
in West AfricaWest AfricaWest Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the UN definition of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries and an area of approximately 5 million square km:-Flags of West Africa:...
, mainly because the promises of land in Canada were not kept by the British. - May 7 - Lower CanadaLower CanadaThe Province of Lower Canada was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence...
is divided into 21 counties. - August - the 1st Parliament of Upper Canada1st Parliament of Upper CanadaThe 1st Parliament of Upper Canada was opened 17 September 1792. Elections in Upper Canada had been held in August 1792. All sessions were held at Navy Hall in Newark, later Niagara-on-the-Lake...
is elected. - October 15 - The law of England is introduced in Upper CanadaUpper CanadaThe Province of Upper Canada was a political division in British Canada established in 1791 by the British Empire to govern the central third of the lands in British North America and to accommodate Loyalist refugees from the United States of America after the American Revolution...
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- December 20 - A fortnightly mail is established between Canada and the United States.
- December - A bill to abolish slaverySlaverySlavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work. Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand compensation...
, in Lower Canada, does not pass.
Births
- February 9 - Thomas CookeThomas Cooke (bishop)Thomas Cooke was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, missionary, and the first Bishop of Trois Rivières from 1852 to 1870.-References:* at Catholic-Hierarchy...
, missionary, and the first Bishop of Trois RivièresRoman Catholic Diocese of Trois RivièresThe Roman Catholic Diocese of Trois Rivières is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Québec.-Ordinaries:*Thomas Cooke *Louis-François Richer dit Laflèche *François-Xavier Cloutier...
(d.18701870 in CanadaEvents from the year 1870 in Canada.-Events:*June-July - The 1870 New Brunswick election*September 16 - Alfred Boyd becomes its first premier of Manitoba.*December 27 - The 1870 Manitoba election-Births:...
) - August 29 - James William JohnstonJames William JohnstonJames W. Johnston was a Nova Scotia lawyer and politician. He served as Premier of the colony from 1857 to 1860 and again from 1864. He was also Government Leader prior to the granting of responsible government in 1848. He was a Conservative and supporter of Confederation...
, lawyer, politician, and judge (d.18731873 in CanadaEvents from the year 1873 in Canada.-January to June:*February 26 - Gédéon Ouimet becomes Premier of Quebec, replacing Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau*April 1**Prince Edward Island general election, 1873...
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Deaths
- November - Samuel HearneSamuel HearneSamuel Hearne was a an English explorer, fur-trader, author, and naturalist. He was the first European to make an overland excursion across northern Canada to the Arctic Ocean, actually Coronation Gulf, via the Coppermine River...
, explorer, fur-trader, author, and naturalist (b.17451745 in Canada-Events:* Louisbourg surrenders to English after six-week siege .* English forces take Louisbourg and make new conquests from the French in the West Indies.* Massachusetts Governor William Shirley takes the French Fortress Louisbourg.* Battle of Culloden....
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- Marguerite-Thérèse Lemoine DespinsMarguerite-Thérèse Lemoine DespinsMarguerite-Thérèse Lemoine Despins was a mother superior of the Sisters of Charity of the Hôpital Général of Montreal....
(March 23, 1722 – June 6, 1792) was a mother superiorAbbessAn abbess is the female superior, or mother superior, of a community of nuns, often an abbey....
of the Sisters of Charity of the Hôpital Général of Montreal. (b.17221722 in Canada-Events:* The Tuscarora become the sixth tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy.* Haudenosee League admits Tuscarora as 6th Nation. The refugee band was accepted according to the terms of the League Constitution...
) - Thomas PetersThomas Peters (black leader)Thomas Peters was one of the Black Loyalist Founding Fathers of Sierra Leone. Peters, along with David George, Moses Wilkinson, Cato Perkins, and Joseph Leonard, were influential blacks who recruited African settlers in Nova Scotia for colonization of Sierra Leone...
, black soldier and leader (b.17381738 in Canada-Events:* Smallpox strikes the Cherokee in the Southeast, killing almost half the population. Smallpox also reaches tribes in western Canada.* Esther Brandeau, in the guise of a cabin boy, is the first known Jewish woman to arrive in Canada...
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