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• Incumbents
• Governors
• Events
• Births
• Deaths
• Full date unknown
• References

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Events from the year 1784 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch – George III ^[1]

Events

• August 16 – In response to Loyalist demands, the Crown creates New Brunswick out of Nova Scotia. New Brunswick was then divided into eight counties.
• North West Company built up Grand portage as a general summer rendezvous for all companies and free traders, drawing furs from as far as Oregon and the Arctic Circle.
• David Thompson began his apprenticeship on Hudson Bay.
• James Cook's journal of his last voyage published in London.
• Ward Chipman the Elder, a Massachusetts lawyer, settled in New Brunswick, where he served as solicitor general until 1808. ^[2]
• Butler's Rangers were disbanded in June 1784, and its veterans were given land grants in the Nassau District, now the Niagara region of Ontario, as a reward for their services to the British Crown.

Births

• June 21 – Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet, army officer and colonial administrator (d.1854)
• October 19 – John McLoughlin, physician, fur trader, and merchant (d.1857)

Deaths

• January 28 – Henry Allen, evangelist, hymnist, and theologian (b.1748)
• December 13 – Dr. Samuel Johnson dies in London. (b.1709)

References