1785 in Canada

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Events from the year 1785 in Canada.

• Monarch: George III^[1]

• Governor of the Province of Quebec: Frederick Haldimand
• Governor of Nova Scotia: Edmund Fanning
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: John Byron
• Governor of St. John's Island: Walter Patterson

• North West Company strengthened far west trade through such forts as Athabasca and English River.
• May 18: The city of Saint John, New Brunswick is incorporated.
• Fredericton opens a Provincial Academy of Arts and Sciences, the germ of the University of New Brunswick (1859).
• New Brunswick is separated from Nova Scotia
• Du Calvet proposes Canadian representation in the British Parliament, three members, each, for the Districts of Quebec and Montreal.
• To a proposed Elective Legislature, it is objected that French Canadians do not wish to change their customary laws, and that there are not enough fit men to compose a Legislature.
• Isaac Brock takes command of the 49th Foot, which would be the backbone of the British Empire forces in Canada during the War of 1812.
• Mohawk Chapel, the oldest church in Ontario, was constructed near Brantford, Ontario.

• January 4: Louis-Théodore Besserer, notary, soldier, politician, and businessman (d.1861)
• January 30: Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe, colonial administrator (d.1846)
• February 4: Frédéric-Auguste Quesnel, politician, lawyer, and businessman (d.1866)
• February 15: William Crane, merchant, justice of the peace, judge, and politician (d.1853)
• April 27: Amable Éno, dit Deschamps, political figure (d.1875)
• September 17: Jacob De Witt, businessman, politician, and justice of the peace (d.1859)
• November 25: Andrew Stuart, lawyer, politician, office holder, and author (d.1840)
• December 14: Michel-Louis Juchereau Duchesnay, army and militia officer, seigneur, jp, and office holder (d.1838)

• William Abrams, businessman, jp, judge, office holder, and militia officer (d.1844)
• François Lesieur Desaulniers, farmer and political figure (d.1870)
• John Heckman, political figure (d.1871)
• Caleb Hopkins, farmer and politician (d.1880)
• Peter Robinson, politician, Peterborough, Ontario renamed in his honour (d.1838)