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• Incumbents
• Governors
• Events
• Births
• References

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Events from the year 1786 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: George III ^[1]

Events

• New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland allowed to import goods from the United States.
• Gerassin Pribilof discovers the rookeries on the islands now known as the Pribilofs.
• John Molson founds his first brewery in Montreal.

Births

• April 16 – John Franklin, naval officer, Arctic explorer, and author (d.1847)
• June 17 – William Thompson, farmer and political figure (d.1860)
• October 7 – Louis-Joseph Papineau, lawyer, politician and reformist (d.1871)
• October 30 – Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, lawyer, writer, fifth and last seigneur of Saint-Jean-Port-Joli (L'Islet County) (d.1871)
• October 31 – William Morris, businessman, militia officer, justice of the peace, politician, and school administrator (d.1858)

References