1793 in Canada

Incumbents

• Monarch: George III

  Federal government

• Parliament of Lower Canada — 1st
• Parliament of Upper Canada — 1st

  Governors

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

  Events

• Alexander Mackenzie reaches Pacific Ocean at Bella Coola.
• David Thompson surveys Muskrat Country west of Hudson Bay.
• HBC Brandon House established on the Assiniboine River, outpost for trade south and southwest to Missouri and Yellowstone.
• Mackenzie reaches the Pacific at Dean Channel.
• May 9 First Parliament, of Lower Canada prorogued.
• July 9 Act Against Slavery passed into law, making Upper Canada the first British territory to bring in legislation against slavery, although it does not abolish slavery entirely.
• Merchant vessels first navigate Lake Ontario.

  Births

• March 24 : François-Xavier Paré, politician.

  Deaths

• March 30 : François-Marie Picoté de Belestre, colonial soldier.