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1791–95 – British Captain George Vancouver explores Northwest Coast exhaustively with two ships, but finds no Northwest Passage.; Edmund Burke supports the proposed constitution for Canada, saying that: "To attempt to amalgamate two populations, composed of races of men diverse in language, laws and habitudes, is a complete absurdity.
Vincent Ogé (c. 1757 – 6 February 1791) was a Creole [1] revolutionary, merchant, military officer and goldsmith who had a leading role in a failed uprising against French colonial rule in the colony of Saint-Domingue in 1790.
The Government of Canada recommends that all-numeric dates in both English and French use the YYYY-MM-DD format codified in ISO 8601. [11] The Standards Council of Canada also specifies this as the country's date format. [12] [13] The YYYY-MM-DD format is the only officially recommended method of writing a numeric date in Canada. [2]
Canada sends a delegation to the Paris Peace Talks, the conference resolving war issues. Canada signs the Versailles treaty as part of the British Empire, with parliament's approval. [93] Prohibition in Canada ends federally. [94] 1919: May 15 -June 26: The largest strike in Canadian history; the Winnipeg general strike occurs. Soldiers ...
Many gens de couleur, the affranchis (ex-slaves) and Creole residents of the colony whose rights were restored by the French National Convention as part of the decree of 15 May 1792, asserted that they could form the military backbone of Republican Saint-Domingue; Sonthonax rejected this view as outdated in the wake of the August 1791 slave ...
1791 establishments in Canada (1 C, 3 P) L. 1791 in Lower Canada (1 C) Pages in category "1791 in Canada" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
The word "Domingue" is simply French for Dominic, and it is pronounced "Doh-MANG," to rhyme with meringue. The "ue" at the end is silent.PGNormand 06:33, 26 November 2011 (UTC) "Domingue" seems to suffer a dual identity in English, being "Domingo" in Spanish, "Sunday" in English. --KPDcs 22:05, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
January 25 – The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act 1791, splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada. February 8 – The Bank of the United States , based in Philadelphia, is incorporated by the federal government with a 20-year charter and started with $10,000,000 capital.