1798 in Canada
Events from the year 1798 in Canada.
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Events
- David Thompson travels to Mandan villages and charts headwaters of Mississippi River
- A new fur trading company is formed to compete with the North West Company. Confusingly called the New North West Company, it is nicknamed the XY Company later on. [2][3]
- Indian chiefs, in Canada, claim from Vermont 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 MacNab, businessman, soldier, lawyer and politician (died 1862)
- April 3 – Louis Lacoste, politician (died 1878)
- April 20 – William Edmond Logan, geologist (died 1875)
- April 26, – Charles-François Baillargeon, Archbishops of Quebec (died 1870)
Deaths
- May 10 – George Vancouver, naval officer, explorer (b.1757)
- December 25 – Elias Hardy, lawyer and office-holder (b.1744)
Full date unknown
- Esteban José Martínez Fernández y Martínez de la Sierra, naval officer (b.1742)
References
- "Kings and Queens of Canada". aem. 11 August 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
- "Archives of Manitoba | Keystone Archives Descriptive Database". pam.minisisinc.com. Retrieved 2023-05-13.
- Easterbrook, W.T.; Aitken, Hugh (1988-12-31). Canadian Economic History. p. 168. doi:10.3138/9781442623279. ISBN 9781442623279.
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