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Events from the year 1797 in Canada.

Incumbents

Federal government

Governors

Events

  • David Thompson leaves Hudson's Bay Company to join North West Company.
  • January 18 – This notice appears in the Quebec Gazette: "A mail for the upper counties, comprehending Niagara and Detroit, will be closed, at this office, on Monday, 30th instant, at four o'clock in the evening, to be forwarded, from Montreal, by the annual winter express, on Thursday, 2 February next."
  • July 21 – American David McLane, being convicted of high treason, is hanged on a gibbet on the glacis of the fortifications at Quebec.[2]

Births

Deaths

References

  1. ^ "Kings and Queens of Canada". aem. 11 August 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  2. ^ Galarneau, Claude (1979). "McLANE, DAVID". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. University of Toronto. Retrieved May 12, 2023.
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