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1787 In Canada
Events from the year 1787 in Canada. Incumbents * Monarch: George III 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 Events *HBC David Thompson wintered with Piegans on Bow River. *Prince William Henry (future William IV) lands at Quebec. *At an investigation into judicial abuses, it is stated that one judge takes wine to excess, before taking his seat on the Bench; and that another habitually disregards the pertinent French law and applies the law of England. * Toronto Purchase Births *February 10 – John McDonald, businessman and political figure (d.1860) *February 12 – Norbert Provencher, clergyman, missionary and Bishop (d.1853) *November 12 – Pierre-Flavien Turgeon, Archbishop of Quebec (d.1867) *November 9 – William MacBean George Colebrooke, lieutenan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the largest province by area and the second-largest by population. Much of the population lives in urban areas along the St. Lawrence River, between the most populous city, Montreal, and the provincial capital, Quebec City. Quebec is the home of the Québécois nation. Located in Central Canada, the province shares land borders with Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast, and a coastal border with Nunavut; in the south it borders Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York in the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, Quebec was called ''Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, Quebec b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1787 In Canada
Events from the year 1787 in Canada. Incumbents * Monarch: George III 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 Events *HBC David Thompson wintered with Piegans on Bow River. *Prince William Henry (future William IV) lands at Quebec. *At an investigation into judicial abuses, it is stated that one judge takes wine to excess, before taking his seat on the Bench; and that another habitually disregards the pertinent French law and applies the law of England. * Toronto Purchase Births *February 10 – John McDonald, businessman and political figure (d.1860) *February 12 – Norbert Provencher, clergyman, missionary and Bishop (d.1853) *November 12 – Pierre-Flavien Turgeon, Archbishop of Quebec (d.1867) *November 9 – William MacBean George Colebrooke, lieutenan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1742 In Canada
Events from the year 1742 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: Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville *Governor of Nova Scotia: Paul Mascarene * Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Henry Medley Events * First scientific report on the North Pacific fur seal. * First Fort Paskoya built by La Vérendrye at Cedar Lake. Births * Esteban José Martínez Fernández y Martínez de la Sierra, naval officer (died 1798) * Benjamin Frobisher, fur-trader (died 1787) Historical documents Without Île-Royale "and other Indulgencies at the Treaty of Utrecht," France's fisheries would have "by this time been totally destroyed" "What humanity!" - French missionary surprised by Indigenous travel companions' generosity with game they hunt (Note: "savages" used) "Indefatigable, artful, insinuating" priests among Six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Frobisher
Benjamin Frobisher (1742 – April 14, 1787) was born in England, the son of Joseph Frobisher and Rachel Hargrave and immigrated to Canada about 1763. Two brothers also immigrated to Canada and all three were involved with the fur trade and its expansion into the northwest. In 1770, the three brothers, partnered with Richard Dobie, had a successful fur trading expedition which went up the Saskatchewan River well past Fort Bourbon situated near the mouth of that river. More successful expeditions followed and in 1779 the Frobishers set up a company that owned two of the sixteen shares in the North West Company established that year. They were among the shareholders who got their fur trade goods from the London merchant John Strettell. At the time of Benjamin's death, the northwest was beginning to be the most important region in the fur trade and a time when the North West Company was on the point of having almost total control of the area's trade. He was one of the seventeen orig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1870 In Canada
Events from the year 1870 in Canada. Incumbents Crown * Monarch – Victoria Federal government * Governor General – John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar * Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald * Parliament – 1st Provincial governments Lieutenant governors * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Adams George Archibald (from May 20) *Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Lemuel Allan Wilmot * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Charles Hastings Doyle *Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Pearce Howland * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau Premiers *Premier of Manitoba – Alfred Boyd (from September 16) *Premier of New Brunswick – Andrew Rainsford Wetmore (until June 9) then George Edwin King * Premier of Nova Scotia – William Annand * Premier of Ontario – John Sandfield Macdonald *Premier of Quebec – Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau Territorial governments Lieutenant governors * Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Terr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William MacBean George Colebrooke
Sir William MacBean George Colebrooke, (9 November 1787 – 6 February 1870) was an English career soldier and colonial administrator who became lieutenant governor of New Brunswick in 1841. Life The son of Colonel Paulet Welbore Colebrooke, R.A. (died 1816), and a daughter of Major-General Grant, he was educated at Woolwich, entering the Royal Artillery as a first lieutenant on 12 September 1803. In 1805 he was ordered to the East Indies—first to Ceylon, then in 1806 to Malabar, and back to Ceylon in 1807. He went to India in 1809, and served with the field army there through 1810, becoming a captain on 27 September 1810. Colebrooke next served in Java, and was wounded in the operations against the Dutch in that island in 1811; here he remained under the British occupation, and was deputy quartermaster-general in 1813, being promoted major on 1 June 1813. He was sent as political agent and commissioner to Palembong in Sumatra, and on to Bengal in 1814. He resumed his old du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1867 In Canada
Events from the year 1867 in Canada. Incumbents Crown * Monarch – Victoria January to June Governors * Governor General of Canada – Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck * Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – vacant * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Sir William Fenwick Williams Premiers * Premier of Canada – Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau * Premier of New Brunswick – Peter Mitchell * Premier of Nova Scotia – Charles Tupper July to December Federal government * Governor General – Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck * Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald (from July 1) * Parliament – 1st (from November 6) Provincial governments = Lieutenant governors = *Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Charles Hastings Doyle (until October 18) then Francis Pym Harding *Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Sir William Fenwick Williams (until October 18) then Charles Hastings Doyle *Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Henry William Stisted *L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Quebec
The Archdiocese of Québec ( la, Archidiœcesis Quebecensis; french: Archidiocèse de Québec) is a Catholicism, Catholic archdiocese in Quebec, Canada. Being the first Episcopal see, see in the New World north of Mexico, the Archdiocese of Québec is also the Primate (bishop), primatial see for Canada. The Archdiocese of Québec is also the Ecclesiastical province, ecclesiastical provincial for the dioceses of Roman Catholic Diocese of Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, Roman Catholic Diocese of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière and Roman Catholic Diocese of Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières. The archdiocese's cathedral is Notre-Dame de Québec Cathedral, Notre-Dame de Québec in Quebec City. History New France From the beginning of colonisation of the New World, the Church influenced the politics and policies of New France. Even during the first voyages of Jacques Cartier in the 16th Century, Priesthood (Catholic Church), missionary priests would accompany the Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre-Flavien Turgeon
Pierre-Flavien Turgeon (November 13, 1787 in Quebec City, Quebec – August 25, 1867 in Quebec City) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and Archbishop of Quebec for 17 years. Life Pierre-Flavien Turgeon was born in Québec on November 13, 1787. He entered the Séminaire de Québec in 1799. His father, a merchant, died the following year, and his half-brother Louis served as guardian. In 1806, Joseph-Octave Plessis, Bishop of Quebec, appointed Turgeon his secretary. He was ordained in 1810. Turgeon continued to assist Bishop Plessis in the administration of the diocese, while also fulfilling a number of different duties at the seminary. He taught philosophy from 1812 to 1815, when he became director of the Grand Seminaire. All the while, Plessis was grooming him for the episcopacy. The strain of managing both academic and diocesan responsibilities undermined his health, and in 1819, as a respite, he accompanied Plessis to Europe. Upon his return, he withdrew from teaching, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1853 In Canada
Events from the year 1853 in Canada. Incumbents *Monarch — Victoria Federal government *Parliament: 4th Governors *Governor General of the Province of Canada — James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin *Colonial Governor of Newfoundland — Charles Henry Darling *Governor of New Brunswick — Edmund Walker Head * Governor of Nova Scotia — John Gaspard Le Marchant *Governor of Prince Edward Island — Dominick Daly Premiers *Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada — **Francis Hincks, Canada West Premier **Augustin-Norbert Morin, Canada East Premier * Premier of Nova Scotia — James Boyle Uniacke *Premier of Prince Edward Island — John Holl Events *February 23 – A description of the proposed bridge across the St. Lawrence is published. *June 6 – Gavazzi Riot in Quebec are quelled by military. *June 26 – Investigation of the riot proceeds, at Montreal. *July – Irregular calling of jurors delays trial for riot. *July 15 – The Grand Trunk Railway merges numerous sm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norbert Provencher
Joseph-Norbert Provencher (February 12, 1787 – June 7, 1853) was a Canadian clergyman and missionary and one of the founders of the modern province of Manitoba. He was the first Bishop of Saint Boniface and was an important figure in the history of the Franco-Manitoban community. Life Provencher was born in Nicolet, Quebec, in 1787 to Jean-Baptiste and Élisabeth Proulx Provencher. His parents were farmers. Provencher was educated at the Nicolet College Classique and the Quebec Seminary. He was ordained a priest in 1811. For several years he served as curate in various parishes. In 1818 he and two other priests were sent by Joseph-Octave Plessis, Bishop of Quebec, to open a mission on the Red River in present-day Manitoba, where the majority of settlers were Irish and Scottish Catholics. He was tasked with converting the scattered Indian nations and to care for the "delinquent Christians, who have adopted there the customs of the Indians.” At the time, Provencher did not s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
