1796 in Canada

Events from the year 1796 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: George III

Federal government

• Parliament of Lower Canada: 1st (until May 31)
• Parliament of Upper Canada: 1st (until June 3)

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

• About 600 Blacks from Jamaica are deported to Nova Scotia. Known as Maroons, they help rebuild the Halifax Citadel. In 1800, most of them leave for Sierra Leone, Africa.
• York officially becomes the capital of Upper Canada.
• American David McLane, being convicted of high treason, is hanged on a gibbet on the glacis of the fortifications at Quebec. (Note – possibly 1797)

Births

John Redpath in 1836

• March 10 – Julia Catherine Beckwith, author (d.1867)
• May 5 – Robert Foulis, inventor, civil engineer and artist (d.1866)
• May 8 – Jean-Baptiste Meilleur, doctor, educator and politician (d.1878)
• June – Thomas Brown Anderson, merchant, banker and politician (d.1873)
• December 17 – Thomas Chandler Haliburton, author, judge and politician (d.1865)

Full date unknown

• John Redpath, Scots-Quebecer businessman and philanthropist, Born in Earlston, Scottish Borders, Scotland. (d.1869)

Deaths

• July 10 – Joseph Fairbanks, merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia. (b. 1718)