1795 In Canada

	1795 In Canada Events from the year 1795 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 * 1790s – British create protective tariffs to encourage timber production for Navy after Napoléon Bonaparte cuts off Baltic supply of tall trees and hardwood. First in New Brunswick then in Lower and Upper Canada. Montreal merchants expand transport to handle trade. * A road Act is passed, in Lower Canada, though opposed by country people, who fear a return of the Statue labor of Governor Haldimand's time. Births * September 5: Étienne-Paschal Taché, doctor, politician, and deputy adjutant-general of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	List Of Canadian Monarchs Listed here are the monarchs who reigned over Canada, starting with the Canada (New France), French colony of Canada which subsequently became a The Canadas, British colony, followed by the British Dominion of Canada, and finally the present-day sovereign state of Canada. The date of the first claim by a monarch over Canada varies, with most sources giving the year as 1497, when John Cabot made landfall somewhere on the North American coast (likely either modern-day Newfoundland or Nova Scotia), and claimed the land for England on behalf of Henry VII of England, King Henry VII. However, some sources instead put this date at 1535 when the word "Canada" was first used to refer to the French Canada (New France), colony of Canada, which was founded in the name of Francis I of France, King Francis I. Monarchical governance subsequently evolved under a continuous succession of French, British, and eventually uniquely Canadian sovereigns. Since the first claim by Henry VII, there have be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	John Graves Simcoe John Graves Simcoe (25 February 1752 – 26 October 1806) was a British Army general and the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada from 1791 until 1796 in southern Ontario and the Drainage basin, watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior. He founded York, Upper Canada, York, which is now known as Toronto, and was instrumental in introducing institutions such as courts of law, trial by jury, English law, English common law, and fee simple, freehold land tenure, and also in the abolition of slavery in Canada. His long-term goal was the development of Upper Canada (Ontario) as a model community built on aristocratic and conservative principles, designed to demonstrate the superiority of those principles to the republicanism of the United States. His energetic efforts were only partially successful in establishing a local gentry, a thriving Church of England, and an anti-American coalition with select indigenous nations. He is seen by many Canadians as a founding figure in Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1795 In Canada Events from the year 1795 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 * 1790s – British create protective tariffs to encourage timber production for Navy after Napoléon Bonaparte cuts off Baltic supply of tall trees and hardwood. First in New Brunswick then in Lower and Upper Canada. Montreal merchants expand transport to handle trade. * A road Act is passed, in Lower Canada, though opposed by country people, who fear a return of the Statue labor of Governor Haldimand's time. Births * September 5: Étienne-Paschal Taché, doctor, politician, and deputy adjutant-general of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1731 In Canada Events from the year 1731 in Canada. Incumbents * French Monarch: Louis XV * British and Irish Monarch: George II Governors Governor General of New France: Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Étienne Perier Governor of Nova Scotia: Lawrence Armstrong Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Henry Osborn Events * 1731: Fort St. Pierre on Rainy Lake established by Christopher Dufrost de La Jemeraye and Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye. This was the first fort in La Verendrye's expansion of the "Posts of the West". * 1731-43: The La Verendrye family organize expeditions beyond Lake Winnipeg and direct fur trade toward the east. Births Richard Dobie, an early Canadian businessman and a sometimes partner of Benjamin Frobisher (died 1805). November 7: Robert Rogers, army officer and author (died 1795). Deaths * Robert Chevalier Beauchêne, adventurer in New France. Historical documents Pennsylvania lieutenant governor forwards 1718 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Robert Rogers (soldier) Robert Rogers (7 November 1731 – 18 May 1795) was an American colonial frontiersman. Rogers served in the British army during both the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. During the French and Indian War, Rogers raised and commanded the famous Rogers' Rangers, trained for raiding and close combat behind enemy lines. Early life Robert Rogers was born to Ulster-Scots settlers, James and Mary McFatridge Rogers on 7 November 1731 in Methuen, a small town in northeastern Massachusetts. At that time, the town served as a staging point for Scots-Irish settlers bound for the wilderness of New Hampshire. In 1739 when Rogers was eight years old, his family relocated to the Great Meadow district of New Hampshire near present-day Concord, where James founded a settlement on of land which he called Munterloney, after a hilly place in County Londonderry, Ireland. Rogers referred to this childhood residence as "Mountalona". It was later renamed Dunbarton, New Hampshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1883 In Canada Events from the year 1883 in Canada. Incumbents Crown * Monarch – Victoria Federal government * Governor General – John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne (until October 23) then Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne * Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald * Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick) * Parliament – 5th (from 8 February) Provincial governments Lieutenant governors Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clement Francis Cornwall Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Cox Aikins Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Robert Duncan Wilmot Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Adams George Archibald (until July 4) then Matthew Henry Richey Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Beverley Robinson Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Thomas Heath Haviland Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Théodore Robitaille Premiers Premier of British Columbia – Robert Beaven (until January 29 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	François Norbert Blanchet François Norbert Blanchet (September 30, 1795 – June 18, 1883) was a French Canadian-born missionary priest and prelate of the Catholic Church who was instrumental in establishing the Catholic Church presence in the Pacific Northwest. He was one of the first Catholic priests to arrive in what was then known as the Oregon Country and subsequently became the first bishop and archbishop of the Archdiocese of Oregon City (now known as the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon). Early life and priesthood François Norbert Blanchet was born near Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec). Along with his younger brother Augustin-Magloire Blanchet, he entered the Seminary of Quebec and was ordained a priest in 1819. Blanchet spent a year working at the cathedral in Quebec before being sent to do missionary work with the Micmac and Acadian people in present-day New Brunswick. To be able to preach to the local Irish, Blanchet became fluent in English. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1865 In Canada Events from the year 1865 in Canada. Incumbents Crown * Monarch – Victoria Federal government Parliament — 8th Governors Governor General of the Province of Canada — Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck Colonial Governor of Newfoundland — Anthony Musgrave Governor of New Brunswick — Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon Governor of Nova Scotia — Charles Hastings Doyle then Richard Graves MacDonnell then Sir William Fenwick Williams Governor of Prince Edward Island — George Dundas Premiers Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada – John Alexander Macdonald, Canada West Premier Étienne-Paschal Taché then Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau, Canada East Premier Premier of Newfoundland — Hugh Hoyles then Frederick Carter Premiers of New Brunswick — Samuel Leonard Tilley then Albert James Smith Premiers of Nova Scotia – Charles Tupper Premier of Prince Edward Island – John Hamilton Gray then James Colledge Pope Events February 3 – Legislature approves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Étienne-Paschal Taché Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché (5 September 1795 – 30 July 1865) was a Canadian doctor, politician, and Father of Confederation. Life Born in St. Thomas, Lower Canada, in 1795, the third son of Charles Taché and Geneviève Michon, Taché studied at the Séminaire de Québec until the War of 1812 when he joined the 5th Battalion of the Select Embodied Militia of the Canadian Militia as an ensign. He was later promoted to lieutenant and fought in the Chasseurs Canadiens. During the war, he started studying to become a doctor and continued his studies in Philadelphia after the war. He obtained his medical licence in 1819 and practised medicine in Montmagny. Taché was a Patriote, although as a moderate he did not support armed rebellion. His house was searched in January 1839, after the Patriote Rebellion, although it proved to be fruitless and he escaped arrest. Abandoning medicine, Taché was elected to the new Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada in 1841 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Frederick Haldimand Sir Frederick Haldimand, KB (11 August 1718 – 5 June 1791) was a military officer best known for his service in the British Army in North America during the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War. From 1778 to 1786, he served as Governor of the Province of Quebec, during which time he oversaw military operations against the northern frontiers in the war, and engaged in ultimately fruitless negotiations to establish the independent Vermont Republic as a new British province. His administration of Quebec was at times harsh, with the detention of numerous political dissidents and agitators. Early life Haldimand was born in Yverdon, Switzerland. Baptized François-Louis-Frédéric Haldimand, he was the son of a civil servant. He became interested in the military at an early age, and the poor prospects for advancement in Switzerland led him to join foreign armies. His first service appears to have been in the army of Prussia during the War of the Austrian Suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill around which the early city of Ville-Marie is built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which obtained its name from the same origin as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. As of 2021, the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census Metropolitan Area#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest city, and List of cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Upper Canada The Province of Upper Canada (french: link=no, province du Haut-Canada) was a part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America, formerly part of the Province of Quebec since 1763. Upper Canada included all of modern-day Southern Ontario and all those areas of Northern Ontario in the which had formed part of New France, essentially the watersheds of the Ottawa River or Lakes Huron and Superior, excluding any lands within the watershed of Hudson Bay. The "upper" prefix in the name reflects its geographic position along the Great Lakes, mostly above the headwaters of the Saint Lawrence River, contrasted with Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) to the northeast. Upper Canada was the primary destination of Loyalist refugees and settlers from the United States after the American Revolution, who often were granted land to settle in Upper Canada. Already populated by Indigenous peoples, land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]