1785 in Canada

Incumbents

• Monarch: George III

  Governors

• Governor of the Province of Quebec: Frederick Haldimand
• Governor of Nova Scotia: Edmund Fanning
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: John Byron
• Governor of St. John's Island: Walter Patterson

  Events

• North West Company strengthened far west trade through such forts as Athabasca and English River.
• May 18: The city of Saint John, New Brunswick is incorporated.
• Fredericton opens a Provincial Academy of Arts and Sciences, the germ of the University of New Brunswick.
• New Brunswick is separated from Nova Scotia
• Du Calvet proposes Canadian representation in the British Parliament, three members, each, for the Districts of Quebec and Montreal.
• To a proposed Elective Legislature, it is objected that French Canadians do not wish to change their customary laws, and that there are not enough fit men to compose a Legislature.
• Isaac Brock takes command of the 49th Foot, which would be the backbone of the British Empire forces in Canada during the War of 1812.
• Mohawk Chapel, the oldest church in Ontario, was constructed near Brantford, Ontario.

  Births

• January 4: Louis-Théodore Besserer, notary, soldier, politician, and businessman
• January 30: Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe, colonial administrator
• February 4: Frédéric-Auguste Quesnel, politician, lawyer, and businessman
• February 15: William Crane, merchant, justice of the peace, judge, and politician
• April 27: Amable Éno, dit Deschamps, political figure
• September 17: Jacob De Witt, businessman, politician, and justice of the peace
• November 25: Andrew Stuart, lawyer, politician, office holder, and author
• December 14: Michel-Louis Juchereau Duchesnay, army and militia officer, seigneur, jp, and office holder

  Full date unknown

• William Abrams, businessman, jp, judge, office holder, and militia officer
• François Lesieur Desaulniers, farmer and political figure
• John Heckman, political figure
• Caleb Hopkins, farmer and politician
• Peter Robinson, politician, Peterborough, Ontario renamed in his honour

  Deaths