1796 in Canada

Incumbents

Federal government

Governors

Events

  • About 600 Blacks from Jamaica are deported to Nova Scotia. Known as Maroons, they help rebuild the Halifax Citadel. In 1800, most of them leave for Sierra Leone, Africa.
  • York officially becomes the capital of Upper Canada.
  • American David McLane, being convicted of high treason, is hanged on a gibbet on the glacis of the fortifications at Quebec. (Note – possibly 1797)

Births

John Redpath in 1836

Full date unknown

Deaths

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