1784 in Canada
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Events
- August 16 -: In response to LoyalistLoyalist (American Revolution)Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the Kingdom of Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War. At the time they were often called Tories, Royalists, or King's Men. They were opposed by the Patriots, those who supported the revolution...
demands, the Crown creates New BrunswickNew BrunswickNew Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...
out of Nova ScotiaNova ScotiaNova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...
. - 1784-: North West CompanyNorth West CompanyThe North West Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821. It competed with increasing success against the Hudson's Bay Company in what was to become Western Canada...
Built up Grand portage as a general summer rendezvous for all companies and free traders, drawing furs from as far as OregonOregonOregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...
and the Arctic CircleArctic CircleThe Arctic Circle is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. For Epoch 2011, it is the parallel of latitude that runs north of the Equator....
. - David ThompsonDavid Thompson (explorer)David Thompson was an English-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, known to some native peoples as "Koo-Koo-Sint" or "the Stargazer"...
begins apprenticeship on Hudson Bay - James CookJames CookCaptain James Cook, FRS, RN was a British explorer, navigator and cartographer who ultimately rose to the rank of captain in the Royal Navy...
's journal of his last voyage published in London
Births
- June 21: Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet, army officer and colonial administrator (d.18541854 in CanadaSee also:1853 in Canada,other events of 1854,1855 in Canada.----Events from the year 1854 in Canada.-Events:*January 27 - The Great Western Railway opens, linking Toronto, Hamilton and Windsor....
) - October 19: John McLoughlinJohn McLoughlinDr. John McLoughlin, baptized Jean-Baptiste McLoughlin, was the Chief Factor of the Columbia Fur District of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver. He was later known as the "Father of Oregon" for his role in assisting the American cause in the Oregon Country in the Pacific Northwest...
, physician, fur trader, and merchant (d.18571857 in CanadaSee also:1856 in Canada,other events of 1857,1858 in Canada.----Events from the year 1857 in Canada.-Events:*March 12 — The bridge over Desjardins Canal, near Hamilton, Canada West, collapses under a Great Western Railway passenger train...
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Deaths
- January 28: Henry AllenHenry Allen (theologian)Henry Alline was born at Newport, Rhode Island, but afterwards settled in Nova Scotia. He served as a minister at Falmouth, Nova Scotia but the Congregationalists later barred him from preaching in their churches. He served as an itinerant preacher during the New Light movement...
, evangelist, hymnist, and theologian (b.17481748 in Canada-Events:* Louisbourg is returned to France by the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle.* Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle returns Ile Royale and Ile Saint-Jean to French.* Treaty of Logstown...
) - December 13: Dr. Samuel JohnsonSamuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson , often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer...
dies in London. (b.17091709 in Canada-Births:* September 7 Dr. Samuel Johnson born in Lichfield, Staffordshire. * September 26 - Jean-Louis Le Loutre, priest, Spiritan, and missionary -Deaths:...
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- Laurence CoughlanLaurence CoughlanLaurence Coughlan was an Irish-born itinerant preacher who was active in Newfoundland during the period 1766–1773. Though born a Roman Catholic, ordained and employed as an Anglican, and at one point even ordained by a Greek Orthodox bishop, his true religious affiliation was Methodism, to which...
, Methodist preacher, Church of England clergyman, and local official