1787 in Canada
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Events
- HBCHudson's Bay CompanyThe Hudson's Bay Company , abbreviated HBC, or "The Bay" is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and one of the oldest in the world. A fur trading business for much of its existence, today Hudson's Bay Company owns and operates retail stores throughout Canada...
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"...
wintered with Piegans on Bow RiverBow RiverThe Bow River is a river in the Canadian province of Alberta. It is a tributary of the South Saskatchewan River, and is considered the headwater of the Nelson River....
. - Prince William Henry (future William IVWilliam IV of the United KingdomWilliam IV was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death...
) lands at QuebecQuebecQuebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
. - 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 PurchaseToronto PurchaseThe Toronto Purchase was an agreement between the British crown and the Mississaugas of New Credit in 1787. The Mississaugas of New Credit exchanged 250,808 acres of land in what became York County The Toronto Purchase was an agreement between the British crown and the Mississaugas of New Credit...
Births
- February 10 - John McDonaldJohn McDonald (1787-1860)John McDonald was a businessman and political figure in Upper Canada and Canada West.He was born in Saratoga, New York in 1787, the son of John McDonald, a Scottish immigrant. He set up in business at Troy, New York but joined his older brother Charles in the timber and grain trade at Gananoque in...
, businessman and political figure (d.18601860 in CanadaSee also:1859 in Canada,other events of 1860,1861 in Canada.----Events from the year 1860 in Canada.-Events:*February 20 - 205 killed when the SS Hungarian is wrecked at Cape Sable, Nova Scotia...
) - February 12 - Norbert ProvencherNorbert ProvencherJoseph-Norbert Provencher 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.Provencher was born in Nicolet, Quebec in 1787, and...
, clergyman, missionary and Bishop (d.18531853 in CanadaSee also:1852 in Canada,other events of 1853,1854 in Canada.----Events from the year 1853 in Canada.-Events:*February 23 - A description of the proposed bridge across the St...
) - November 12 - Pierre-Flavien TurgeonPierre-Flavien TurgeonPierre-Flavien Turgeon was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and Archbishop of Quebec.-External links:*...
, Archbishop of QuebecRoman Catholic Archdiocese of QuebecThe Archdiocese of Québec is the oldest Catholic see in the New World north of Mexico. The archdiocese was founded as the Apostolic Vicariate of New France in 1658 and was elevated to a Diocese in 1674 and an Archdiocese in 1819...
(d.18671867 in CanadaSee also:1866 in Canada,other events of 1867,1868 in Canada.----Events from the year 1867 in Canada.-Incumbents:*Monarch — Queen Victoria*Prime Minister — John A. Macdonald*Premier of New Brunswick — Andrew R...
) - November 9 - William MacBean George ColebrookeWilliam MacBean George ColebrookeSir William MacBean George Colebrooke was a career soldier and colonial administrator who became lieutenant governor of New Brunswick in 1841.- External links :*...
, lieutenant governor of New Brunswick (d.18701870 in CanadaEvents from the year 1870 in Canada.-Events:*June-July - The 1870 New Brunswick election*September 16 - Alfred Boyd becomes its first premier of Manitoba.*December 27 - The 1870 Manitoba election-Births:...
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Deaths
- April 14 - Benjamin FrobisherBenjamin FrobisherBenjamin Frobisher was born in England, the son of Joseph Frobisher and Rachel Hargrave and immigrated to Canada about 1763...
, fur-trader (b. 17421742 in Canada-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 * Benjamin Frobisher, fur-trader...
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