1799 in Canada

Events

David Thompson marries Charlotte Small
Alexander Mackenzie resigns from North West Company
George Vancouver's Journeys to the North Pacific Ocean published in London
Handsome Lake, a Seneca chief, founds the Longhouse religion
Russian-American Fur Company chartered; launches aggressive policy in Aleutians and on Northwest Coast.
American competition for West Indies trade kills Liverpool, Nova Scotia's merchant fleet.
Alexander Baranov establishes Russian post known today as Old Sitka; trade charter grants exclusive trading rights to the Russian American Company.
Vermont answers Indian chiefs, in Canada, that their claims were extinguished by treaties of 1763 and 1783 between France, Great Britain and the United States.