1784 in Canada

Incumbents

• Monarch: George III

  Governors

• Governor of the Province of Quebec: Frederick Haldimand
• Governor of Nova Scotia:
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: John Byron
• Governor of St. John's Island: Walter Patterson

  Events

• August 16 -: In response to Loyalist demands, the Crown creates New Brunswick out of Nova Scotia. New Brunswick was then divided into eight counties.
• 1784-: North West Company Built up Grand portage as a general summer rendezvous for all companies and free traders, drawing furs from as far as Oregon and the Arctic Circle.
• David Thompson begins apprenticeship on Hudson Bay
• James Cook's journal of his last voyage published in London
• Ward Chipman the Elder, a Massachusetts lawyer, settled in New Brunswick, where he served as solicitor general until 1808.
• Butler's Rangers were disbanded in June 1784, and its veterans were given land grants in the Nassau District, now the Niagara region of Ontario, as a reward for their services to the British Crown.

  Births

• June 21: Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet, army officer and colonial administrator
• October 19: John McLoughlin, physician, fur trader, and merchant

  Deaths

• January 28: Henry Allen, evangelist, hymnist, and theologian
• December 13: Dr. Samuel Johnson dies in London.

  Full date unknown

• Laurence Coughlan, Methodist preacher, Church of England clergyman, and local official