1806 in Canada

Incumbents

• Monarch: George III

  Federal government

• Parliament of Lower Canada: 4th
• Parliament of Upper Canada: 4th

  Governors

• Governor of the Canadas: Robert Milnes
• Governor of New Brunswick: Thomas Carleton
• Governor of Nova Scotia: John Wentworth
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Erasmus Gower then John Holloway
• Governor of Prince Edward Island: Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres

  Events

• Minor trouble arises after 1806 when a governor attempts to anglicize Lower Canada, but he is able to quell dissent if not to achieve his goal.
• Russian-American Company Company collects otter pelts from Alaska to Spanish California.
• Mungo Park killed by natives on Niger River in Africa.
• On return trip John Colter is released from the Lewis and Clark Expedition to join Forrest Hancock and Joseph Dickson to trap the Yellowstone River.
• Le Canadien, a Quebec nationalist newspaper, is founded.

  Births

• April 12 – Peter Rindisbacher, painter
• May 6 – Charles Dewey Day, lawyer, judge and politician
• August 12 – George Ryan, politician
• November 2 – Henry Kellett, officer in the Royal Navy, oceanographer, Arctic explorer
• December 9 – Jean-Olivier Chénier, physician and Patriote

  Deaths

• May 31: Louis Dunière, politician
• July: Robert Gray, merchant sea-captain and explorer
• October 26: John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada