Events from the year 1796 in Canada.
Incumbents Monarch: George III
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. York officially becomes the capital of Upper Canada.
Births
March 10 – Julia Catherine Beckwith, author (d.1867) 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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