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1816 In Canada
Events from the year 1816 in Canada. Incumbents *Monarch: George III Federal government *Parliament of Lower Canada: 8th (until February 29) *Parliament of Upper Canada: 6th (until April 1) Governors * Governor of the Canadas: Robert Milnes *Governor of New Brunswick: George Prévost * Governor of Nova Scotia: John Coape Sherbrooke * Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Richard Goodwin Keats *Governor of Prince Edward Island: Charles Douglass Smith Events * January 5 – Sir George Prevost dies before consideration of Commodore Yeo's charges; but the Duke of Wellington says: "He must have returned, after the fleet was beaten, I am inclined to think he was right. I have told ministers, repeatedly, that naval superiority, on the Lakes, is a ''sine qua non'' of success in war on the frontiers of Canada, even if our object should be wholly defensive." * June 19 – After several years of harassment, sabotage, and minor skirmishes between members of the Hudson's Bay and North We ... [...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] |
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister of the United Kingdom. He is among the commanders who won and ended the Napoleonic Wars when the coalition defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Wellesley was born in Dublin into the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. He was commissioned as an ensign in the British Army in 1787, serving in Ireland as aide-de-camp to two successive lords lieutenant of Ireland. He was also elected as a member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons. He was a colonel by 1796 and saw action in the Netherlands and in India, where he fought in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War at the Battle of Seringapatam. He was appointed governor of Seringapatam and Mysore in 1799 and, as a newly appointed major-general, won a decisive victory over the Maratha Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1888 In Canada
Events from the year 1888 in Canada. Incumbents Crown * Monarch – Victoria Federal government * Governor General – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice (until June 11) then Frederick Stanley * Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald * Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick) * Parliament – 6th Provincial governments Lieutenant governors *Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Hugh Nelson * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Cox Aikins (until July 1) then John Christian Schultz *Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Matthew Henry Richey (until July 8) then Archibald McLelan *Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Alexander Campbell * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Andrew Archibald Macdonald * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers Premiers *Premier of British Columbia – Alexander Edmund Batson Davie *Premier of Manitoba – David Howard Harr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Alexander Henry
William Alexander Henry (December 30, 1816 – May 3, 1888) was a Canadians, Canadian lawyer, politician, and judge. He was one of the Father of Confederation#Fathers of Confederation, Fathers of Confederation and one of the first judges of the Supreme Court of Canada. Henry was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Shortly afterward, his family moved to Antigonish. He attended Halifax High School then studied law and was admitted to the bar. He was married twice (1840 and 1850). His two sons were William Alexander Henry Jr., a successful Halifax lawyer and Hugh MacD Henry. The elder W. A. Henry served as a cabinet minister in Nova Scotia in governments led by both the Liberal Party of Nova Scotia, Liberals and the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia, Conservatives. He represented the Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Antigonish region almost continuously from 1840 to 1867 and was appointed attorney general in 1864. Henry was a strong believer in the benefits that could be derived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1886 In Canada
Events from the year 1886 in Canada. Incumbents Crown * Monarch – Victoria Federal government * Governor General – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice * Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald * Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick) * Parliament – 5th Provincial governments Lieutenant governors *Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clement Francis Cornwall * Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Cox Aikins *Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley * Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Matthew Henry Richey *Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Beverley Robinson * Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Andrew Archibald Macdonald * Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Rodrigue Masson Premiers *Premier of British Columbia – William Smithe *Premier of Manitoba – John Norquay *Premier of New Brunswick – Andrew George Blair * Premier of Nova Scotia – William Stevens Fielding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Kingston (meteorologist)
George Templeman Kingston (1816–1886) was a Canadian professor, meteorologist, author, and public servant. For successfully promoting and organizing one of Canada's first national scientific services, Kingston has been called the father of Canadian Meteorology. Biography George Kingston was born at the British Factory Chaplaincy, Oporto, Portugal on 5 October 1816, a son of British wine merchant Lucy Henry Kingston and his wife Frances Sophia Rooke, and grandson on his mother's side of Sir Giles Rooke, Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, England. His brother was author William Henry Giles Kingston. He attended Cambridge University, graduating with honours in mathematics in 1846, and was awarded an M.A. in 1849. In February 1851, he married Harriette Malone (1829-1899), daughter of Edward Malone Esq., at East Stonehouse, Plymouth, Devon, England; they had one son, George Malcolm (born at Quebec, Canada, June 1854). After teaching at Eton College for some time, he came ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded on the north, west, and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south and east by the U.S. state of New York. The Canada–United States border spans the centre of the lake. The Canadian cities of Toronto, Kingston, Mississauga, and Hamilton are located on the lake's northern and western shorelines, while the American city of Rochester is located on the south shore. In the Huron language, the name means "great lake". Its primary inlet is the Niagara River from Lake Erie. The last in the Great Lakes chain, Lake Ontario serves as the outlet to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River, comprising the eastern end of the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The Moses-Saunders Power Dam regulates the water level of the lake. Geography Lake Ontario is the easternmost of the Great Lakes and the smallest in surface area (7,340 sq mi, 18,960 km2), although it exceeds Lake Eri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Métis
The Métis ( ; Canadian ) are Indigenous peoples who inhabit Canada's three Prairie Provinces, as well as parts of British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, and the Northern United States. They have a shared history and culture which derives from specific mixed European (primarily French) and Indigenous ancestry which became a distinct culture through ethnogenesis by the mid-18th century, during the early years of the North American fur trade. In Canada, the Métis, with a population of 624,220 as of 2021, are one of three major groups of Indigenous peoples that were legally recognized in the Constitution Act of 1982, the other two groups being the First Nations and Inuit. Smaller communities who self-identify as Métis exist in Canada and the United States, such as the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana. The United States recognizes the Little Shell Tribe as an Ojibwe Native American tribe. Alberta is the only Canadian province with a recognized Métis Nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Semple (Canada)
Robert Semple (26 February 1777 – 19 June 1816) was Governor of the territories owned by the Hudson's Bay Company from autumn 1815 until his death. Background Semple was born on 26 February 1777 in Boston, Mass. He was the son of Robert Semple, a prominent London merchant and Anne Greenlaw. Semple's parents were loyalists, and sometime during or after the American Revolution, the family returned to England. Because he was not a British citizen, but an American, Semple was able to travel to many countries that British subjects would barred from entering due to wartime restrictions. During his travels he wrote travel books including ''Walks and sketches at the Cape of Good Hope; to which is subjoined a journey from Cape Town to Blettenberg's Bay'' (London, 1803); ''Observations on a journey through Spain and Italy to Naples; and thence to Smyrna and Constantinople: comprising a description of the principal places in that route, and remarks on the present natural and political s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuthbert Grant
Cuthbert James Grant (1793 – July 15, 1854) was a prominent Métis people (Canada), Métis leader of the early 19th century. His father was also called Cuthbert Grant. Life Cuthbert James Grant was born in 1793 at Fort Tremblant, a North West Company trading post located near the present-day town of Togo, Saskatchewan, where his father was a manager. His father was Cuthbert Grant Sr., a North West Company partner, and his mother was Métis, Margaret Son-gabo-ki-che-ta Grant, Utinwassis Cree Woman. In 1801, at the age of 8, he was sent to be educated, perhaps to Scotland, though this is uncertain. It is not known exactly when he returned to Western Canada, but in 1812, he entered the service of the North West Company at the age of 19. He then travelled with the spring brigade to the ''Pays d'en Haut'', the "high country" of the northwest. He was recognized as a leader of the Métis people, and became involved in the bitter struggle between the Nor'westers and the Hudson's Bay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Seven Oaks
The Battle of Seven Oaks was a violent confrontation in the Pemmican War between the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) and the North West Company (NWC), rivals in the North American fur trade, fur trade, that took place on 19 June 1816, the climax of a long dispute in western Canada. The Métis people (Canada), Métis people fought for the North West Company, and they called it "the Victory of Frog Plain" (''la Victoire de la Grenouillère''). Background Miles MacDonell was the governor of the Red River Colony in 1814, the area around Winnipeg, Manitoba. He issued the Pemmican Proclamation which prohibited export of pemmican from the colony for the next year. It was meant to guarantee adequate supplies for the Hudson's Bay Colony, but the North West Company viewed it as a ploy by the Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, Earl of Selkirk to monopolize the commodity, which was important to the North West Company. The Métis people (Canada), Métis did not acknowledge the authority of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
