1799 in Canada
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See also: 1798 in Canada, other events of 1799, 1800 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.
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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.
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Births
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