1799 in Canada

Events from the year 1799 in Canada.

Events

• 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.

Births

Full date unknown

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

Deaths

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