1798 in Canada
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Events from the year 1798 in Canada.
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Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
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 â Allan MacNab, businessman, soldier, lawyer and politician (died 1862)
- April 3 â Louis Lacoste, politician (died 1878)
- April 20 â William Edmond Logan, geologist (died 1875)
- April 26, â Charles-François Baillargeon, Archbishops of Quebec (died 1870)
Deaths
- May 10 â George Vancouver, naval officer, explorer (b.1757)
- December 25 â Elias Hardy, lawyer and office-holder (b.1744)
Full date unknown
- Esteban José MartÃnez Fernández y MartÃnez de la Sierra, naval officer (b.1742)