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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.
Saint-Domingue became known as the "Pearl of the Antilles" – one of the richest colonies in the world in the 18th-century French empire. It was the greatest jewel in imperial France's mercantile crown. By the 1780s, Saint-Domingue produced about 40 percent of all the sugar and 60 percent of all the coffee consumed in Europe.
The Province of Quebec (French: Province de Québec) was a colony in British North America which comprised the former French colony of Canada.It was established by the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1763, following the conquest of New France by British forces during the Seven Years' War.
Canada withdraws from the War in Afghanistan at the end of the first phase. [136] [137] [146] 2018: 17 October The Cannabis Act becomes law, making recreational cannabis use legal throughout the country. Canada is the second country (after Uruguay in 2013) to legalize recreational cannabis use nationwide. [147] 2020: 7 January - March
Portrait of the Comte de Vaudreuil by François-Hubert Drouais, 1758.He is depicted pointing to his native Saint-Domingue on the map.. The Comte de Vaudreuil was born in Saint-Domingue, West Indies, the son of Joseph de Rigaud (1706–1764), Marquis de Vaudreuil, the French governor of the island, and his aristocratic white Creole wife, Françoise Guiot de la Mirande.
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]
Since 1659, Saint-Domingue (now the Republic of Haiti), was a French colony, recognized by Spain on September 20, 1697. From September 20, 1793, to October 1798 parts of the island were under British occupation. [1]