1798 in Canada
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- 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"...
travels to Mandan villages and charts headwaters of Mississippi RiverMississippi RiverThe Mississippi River is the largest river system in North America. Flowing entirely in the United States, this river rises in western Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for to the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains... - A new fur trading company is formed to compete with the 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...
. Confusingly called the New North West Company, it is nicknamed the XY Company from the way it differentiates its bales from those of its competitor. - Indian chiefs, in Canada, claim from VermontVermontVermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...
an equivalent of the greater part of Addison, Chittenden, Franklin and Grand Isle counties. They get their expenses to and fro.
Births
- February 19 - Allan MacNabAllan MacNabSir Allan Napier MacNab, 1st Baronet was a Canadian political leader and Premier of the Province of Canada before Canadian Confederation .-Biography:...
, businessman, soldier, lawyer and politician (died 18621862 in CanadaSee also:1861 in Canada,other events of 1862,1863 in Canada.----Events from the year 1862 in Canada.-Events:*April 7 - United Kingdom-United States treaty for suppression of African slave trade is signed....
) - April 3 - Louis LacosteLouis LacosteLouis Lacoste was a Quebec notary and political figure. He was a Conservative member of the Senate of Canada from 1867 to 1878....
, politician (died 18781878 in Canada-Events:*March 7 - Both the Université de Montréal and the University of Western Ontario are incorporated*March 8 - Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Sir Charles-Eugène de Boucherville...
) - April 20 - William Edmond LoganWilliam Edmond LoganSir William Edmond Logan was a Scottish-Canadian geologist.Logan was born in Montreal, Quebec, and educated at the High School in Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh . He started teaching himself geology in 1831, when he took over the running of a copper works in Swansea. He produced a...
, geologist (died 18751875 in Canada-Events:*January 14 - The Halifax Herald is first published*January 18 - 1875 Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a second consecutive majority*April 5 - The Supreme Court of Canada is created...
) - April 26, - Charles-François BaillargeonCharles-François BaillargeonCharles-François Baillargeon was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and archbishop.He was from Lower Canada and studied at the Collège de Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud and Collège de Nicolet followed by four years of theology at Quebec where his choice of the priesthood was confirmed...
, Archbishops of Quebec (died 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:...
) - August 11 - Dominick DalyDominick DalySir Dominick Daly was the Governor of Prince Edward Island from 11 July 1854 to 25 May 1859 and later Governor of South Australia from 4 March 1862 until his death on 19 February 1868....
, politician (died 18681868 in CanadaSee also:1867 in Canada,other events of 1868,1869 in Canada.----Events from the year 1868 in Canada.-Incumbents:Crown*Head of state : Queen VictoriaFederal government...
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Deaths
- May 10 - George VancouverGeorge VancouverCaptain George Vancouver RN was an English officer of the British Royal Navy, best known for his 1791-95 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of contemporary Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon...
, naval officer, explorer (b.17571757 in Canada-Events:* Thursday March 17 to Tuesday March 22 - In four nights 1,500 French Canadians and Indians destroy the out-works of Fort William-Henry.* Saturday July 30 - Seven thousand men are collected to attack Fort William Henry....
) - December 25 - Elias HardyElias HardyElias Hardy was an English-born lawyer and politician in New Brunswick. He represented Northumberland County from 1786 to 1792 and Saint John from 1793 to 1795 in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick....
, lawyer and office-holder (b.17441744 in Canada-Events:* France declares war on England * Treaty of Lancaster .* Having begun in Europe in 1740, The War of the Austrian Succession spreads to North America ....
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- Esteban José Martínez Fernández y Martínez de la SierraEsteban José Martínez Fernández y Martínez de la SierraEsteban José Martínez Fernández y Martínez de la Sierra, or simply Esteban José Martínez was a Spanish navigator and explorer, native of Seville...
, naval officer (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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