1788 in Canada

Incumbents

• Monarch: George III

  Governors

• Governor of the Canadas: Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
• Governor of New Brunswick: Thomas Carleton
• Governor of Nova Scotia: John Parr
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: John Elliot
• Governor of St. John's Island: Edmund Fanning

  Events

• Attorney-General Monk and Solicitor-General Williams are of opinion that, as the Jesuits have no civil existence as a Canadian corporation, their estates accrue to the Crown.
• Ontario is divided into five districts, under English law.

  Births

• January 1 – Peter Warren Dease, HBC officer and Arctic explorer
• October 14 – Sir Edward Sabine, soldier and scientist
• December 31 – Alexander Rankin, timber merchant, justice of the peace, politician, and office holder

  Deaths