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Events from the year 1788 in Canada.
Incumbents
[edit]Governors
[edit]- Governor of the Canadas: Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
- Governor of New Brunswick: Thomas Carleton
- Governor of Nova Scotia: John Parr
- Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: John Elliot
- Governor of St. John's Island: Edmund Fanning
Events
[edit]- Attorney-General Monk and Solicitor-General Williams are of opinion that, as the Jesuits have no civil existence as a Canadian corporation, their estates accrue to the Crown.
- Ontario is divided into five districts,[2] under English law.
Births
[edit]- January 1 – Peter Warren Dease, HBC officer and Arctic explorer (d.1863)[3]
- October 14 – Sir Edward Sabine, soldier and scientist (d.1883)[4]
- December 31 – Alexander Rankin, timber merchant, justice of the peace, politician, and office holder (d.1852)[5]
Deaths
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References
[edit]- ^ "Kings and Queens of Canada". aem. 11 August 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
- ^ Districts of Ontario, www.archives.org, retrieved 12 March 2015[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Peter Warren Dease", Dartmouth College Library Encyclopedia Arctica, Retrieved August 26, 2016
- ^ "Sir Edward Sabine", National Portrait Gallery, Retrieved August 26, 2016
- ^ John Rankin (1908). A History of Our Firm: Some Account of the Firm of Pollok, Gilmour and Co. and Its Offshoots and Connections. author at the University Press of Liverpool. pp. 58–.
