1792 in Canada

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Events from the year 1792 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: George III ^[1]

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 Parr
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: John Elliot
• Governor of St. John's Island: Edmund Fanning
• Governor of Upper Canada: John Graves Simcoe

Events

• Catherine II grants a monopoly of furs in Alaska to Grigorii Shelikov.
• Captain George Vancouver begins his explorations of the British Columbia Coast.
• Many Black Loyalists in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia migrate to Sierra Leone in West Africa, mainly because the promises of land in Canada were not kept by the British.
• May 7 – Lower Canada is divided into 21 counties.
• August – the 1st Parliament of Upper Canada is elected. ^[2]
• October 15 – The law of England is introduced in Upper Canada.

James William Johnston

• December 20 – A fortnightly mail is established between Canada and the United States.
• December – A bill to abolish slavery in Lower Canada does not pass.

Births

• February 9 – Thomas Cooke, missionary, and the first Bishop of Trois Rivières (d.1870) ^[3]
• August 29 – James William Johnston, lawyer, politician, and judge (d.1873)

Deaths

• November – Samuel Hearne, explorer, fur-trader, author, and naturalist (b.1745)

Full date unknown

• Marguerite-Thérèse Lemoine Despins (March 23, 1722 – June 6, 1792) was a mother superior of the Sisters of Charity of the Hôpital Général of Montreal. (b.1722)
• Thomas Peters, black Loyalist and founding father of Sierra Leone (b.1738)

References

1. "Kings and Queens of Canada". aem. 11 August 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
2. Archives of Ontario "Library". Archived from the original on 11 June 2011. Retrieved 2009-12-07.
3. Voisine, Nive (1976). "Cooke, Thomas". In Halpenny, Francess G. (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography . Vol. IX (1861–1870) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press . Retrieved 2022-09-16.