1796 in Canada

• Monarch: George III Federal government • Parliament of Lower Canada: 1st (until May 31) • Parliament of Upper Canada: 1st (until June 3) Governors • Governor of the Canadas: Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester then Robert Prescott • 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 ==Events==

• About 600 Jamaican Maroons are deported from Jamaica to Nova Scotia. They helped rebuild the Halifax Citadel. In 1800, most petition to be sent to Sierra Leone, Africa. • York officially becomes the capital of Upper Canada. ==Births==

• March 10 – Julia Catherine Beckwith, author (d.1867) • May 5 – Robert Foulis, inventor, civil engineer and artist (d.1866) • May 8 – Jean-Baptiste Meilleur, doctor, educator and politician (d.1878) • June – Thomas Brown Anderson, merchant, banker and politician (d.1873) • December 17 – Thomas Chandler Haliburton, author, judge and politician (d.1865) Full date unknown • John Redpath, Scots-Quebecer businessman and philanthropist, Born in Earlston, Scottish Borders, Scotland. (d.1869) ==Deaths==

• July 10 – Joseph Fairbanks, merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia. (b. 1718) == References ==