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
General Thomas Carleton (c. 1735 – 2 February 1817) was an Irish-born British Army officer who was promoted to colonel during the American Revolutionary War after relieving the siege of Quebec in 1776. After the war, he was appointed as L ...
*
Governor of Nova Scotia
The following is a list of the governors and lieutenant governors of Nova Scotia. Though the present day office of the lieutenant governor in Nova Scotia came into being only upon the province's entry into Canadian Confederation in 1867, the po ...
:
John Parr
*
Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland:
John Elliot
*
Governor of St. John's Island:
Edmund Fanning
Events
*
HBC
HBC or HbC may refer to:
Companies and organizations
* Halton Borough Council, England
* Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, the state-owned radio and television broadcaster for Greece
* Hokkaido Broadcasting, Japan
* Houston Boychoir, Texas, US
* ...
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
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The discovery of a hypothetical planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France.
* January 10 – The Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusett ...
)
*February 12 –
Norbert Provencher, clergyman, missionary and Bishop (d.
1853
Events
January–March
* January 6 – Florida Governor Thomas Brown signs legislation that provides public support for the new East Florida Seminary, leading to the establishment of the University of Florida.
* January 8 – Taiping Reb ...
)
*November 12 –
Pierre-Flavien Turgeon,
Archbishop of Quebec
The archbishop of Quebec is the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec, who is responsible for looking after its spiritual and administrative needs. As the archdiocese is the metropolitan see of the ecclesiastical province encompassing ...
(d.
1867
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The Covington–Cincinnati Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky, in the United States, becoming the longest single-span bridge in the world. It was renamed a ...
)
*November 9 –
William MacBean George Colebrooke, lieutenant governor of New Brunswick (d.
1870
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The first edition of ''The Northern Echo'' newspaper is published in Priestgate, Darlington, England.
** Plans for the Brooklyn Bridge are completed.
* January 3 – Construction of the Broo ...
)
Deaths
* April 14 –
Benjamin Frobisher, fur-trader (b.
1742
Events
January–March
* January 9 – Robert Walpole is made Earl of Orford, and resigns as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, effectively ending his period as Prime Minister of Great Britain. On his for ...
)
References
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