Contents

• Incumbents
• Governors
• Events
• Births
• Deaths
• References

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Events from the year 1790 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: George III ^[1]

Events

• British Captain George Vancouver begins his three-year survey of northwest coast of North America .
• Spain signs the Nootka Convention, ceding the Pacific Northwest to England and the United States.
• October 7 New York consents to Vermont's admission to the Union, with cessation of New York's jurisdiction, in the disputed territory.
• Lower Canada is divided into three districts, instead of two.

Births

Deaths

References