1803 in Canada

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Events from the year 1803 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: George III^[1]

Federal government

• Parliament of Lower Canada: 3rd
• Parliament of Upper Canada: 3rd

Governors

• Governor of the Canadas: Robert Milnes
• Governor of New Brunswick: Thomas Carleton
• John Wentworth
• Charles Morice Pole
• Governor of St. John's Island: Edmund Fanning

Events

• Thomas Jefferson completes Louisiana Purchase extending U.S. control west of the Mississippi River; federal plans to resettle Eastern tribes beyond the Mississippi soon begin.
• William Clark to join the Lewis and Clark Expedition
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• The XY Company is reorganized under Alexander Mackenzie's name.
• First Canadian Paper Mill is built in Quebec.^[2]

Births

• October 13 – Augustin-Norbert Morin, lawyer, judge, politician and Joint Premier of the Province of Canada (d.1865)
• March 24 – Egerton Ryerson, politician, teacher, principal, Methodist minister (d.1882)
• December 6 – Susanna Moodie, writer (d.1885)

Full date unknown

• John Kinder Labatt, brewer and founder of the Labatt Brewing Company (d.1866)

Deaths

• Nathaniel Pettit (1724 – March 9, 1803) a political figure in Upper Canada.
• Rev. Johann Samuel Schwerdtfeger (1734–1803) The first Lutheran minister in Ontario.^[3]

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