1799 in Canada

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Events from the year 1799 in Canada.

• Monarch: George III^[1]

• Parliament of Lower Canada: 2nd
• Parliament of Upper Canada: 2nd

• Governor of the Canadas: Robert Prescott then Robert Milnes
• Governor of New Brunswick: Thomas Carleton
• Governor of Nova Scotia: John Wentworth
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: John Elliot
• Governor of St. John's Island: Edmund Fanning
• Governor of Upper Canada: John Graves Simcoe then Peter Hunter

• David Thompson marries Charlotte Small
• North West Company establishes a fur post at Rocky Mountain House, Alberta. The nearby Hudson's Bay Company fur post which is also established at this time is called Acton House.
• Alexander Mackenzie resigns from North West Company
• George Vancouver's Journeys to the North Pacific Ocean published in London
• Handsome Lake, a Seneca chief, founds the Longhouse religion
• Russian-American Fur Company chartered; launches aggressive policy in Aleutians and on Northwest Coast.
• American competition for West Indies trade kills Liverpool, Nova Scotia's merchant fleet.
• Alexander Baranov establishes Russian post known today as Old Sitka; trade charter grants exclusive trading rights to the Russian American Company.
• Vermont answers Indian chiefs, in Canada, that their claims were extinguished by treaties of 1763 and 1783 between France, Great Britain and the United States.
• Two cases are filed challenging slavery in New Brunswick: R v Jones and R v Agnew.

• September 8 – Sir William Young, Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1887)
• October 30 – Ignace Bourget, bishop of the Diocese of Montreal (d.1885)

• Joseph Cunard, merchant, shipbuilder and politician (d.1865)

• January 15 – Alexander McKee, agent for the Indian Department (b.1735)

• Philip Turnor, HBC inland surveyor (b.1751)