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1793 in Canada
Events from the year
1793 in
Canada
.
Incumbents
Monarch:
George III
Federal government
Parliament of
Lower Canada
—
1st
Parliament of
Upper Canada
— 1st
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
Alexander Mackenzie
reaches
Pacific Ocean
at
Bella Coola
.
David Thompson
surveys Muskrat Country west of
Hudson Bay
.
HBC
Brandon House
established on the
Assiniboine River
, outpost for trade south and
southwest
to Missouri and Yellowstone.
Mackenzie reaches the Pacific at
Dean Channel
.
May 9 First Parliament, of Lower Canada prorogued.
July 9
Act Against Slavery
passed into law, making Upper Canada the first
British territory
to
bring in
legislation against slavery, although it does not abolish slavery entirely.
Merchant
vessels
first
navigate
Lake Ontario
.
Births
March 24
:
François-Xavier Paré
, politician.
Deaths
March 30
:
François-Marie Picoté de Belestre
, colonial soldier.