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Events from the year 1793 in Canada.

Incumbents

  • Monarch: George III

Federal government

  • Parliament of Lower Canada — 1st
  • Parliament of Upper Canada — 1st

Governors

  • Governor of the Canadas: Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
  • 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

  • May 9 – First Parliament, of Lower Canada prorogued.
  • July 9 – Act Against Slavery passed into law, making Upper Canada the first British territory to bring in legislation against slavery, although it did not abolish slavery entirely.
  • Alexander Mackenzie reaches Pacific Ocean at Bella Coola.
  • David Thompson surveys Muskrat Country west of Hudson Bay.
  • HBC Brandon House established on the Assiniboine River, outpost for trade south and southwest to Missouri and Yellowstone.
  • Mackenzie reaches the Pacific at Dean Channel.
  • Merchant vessels first navigate Lake Ontario.

Births

  • March 24 : François-Xavier Paré, politician.

Deaths

  • March 30 : François-Marie Picoté de Belestre, colonial soldier.

References