1788 in Canada
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Events from the year 1788 in Canada.
Incumbents
- Monarch: George III
Governors
- 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
Births
- January 1 – Peter Warren Dease, HBC officer and Arctic explorer (d.1863)[2]
- October 14 – Sir Edward Sabine, soldier and scientist (d.1883)[3]
- December 31 – Alexander Rankin, timber merchant, justice of the peace, politician, and office holder (d.1852)[4]
Deaths
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References
- Districts of Ontario, www.archives.org, retrieved 12 March 2015
- "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–.
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