Thomas Dunn (lieutenant-governor)

Thomas Dunn (1729 – 15 April 1818) was Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada from 1805 to 1807.

He was born in Durham, England and came to the town of Quebec shortly after its surrender in 1760. With his partner John Gray, he obtained the trading lease to the king's posts, which gave them a monopoly in the fur trade and fishing on the north coast of the Saint Lawrence River. Dunn also purchased the seigneury of Mille-Vaches. He was also the owner of the Cape Diamond Brewery at Quebec City. Dunn was appointed to the Executive Council of the Province of Quebec (1764–1774) and served as a member of the Legislative Council of Quebec from 1775 to 1791.

He married Henriette Guichaud in 1783. Dunn died at Quebec City.

References

• "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec. 
• "Thomas Dunn". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2005. 
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Lieutenant-Governors of Quebec Post-Confederation (1867–present) Belleau Caron Saint-Just Robitaille Masson Angers Chapleau Jetté Pelletier Langelier Leblanc Fitzpatrick Brodeur Pérodeau Gouin Carroll Patenaude Fiset Fauteux Gagnon Comtois Lapointe Côté Lamontagne Asselin Roux Thibault Duchesne Province of Canada (1841–1866)* Clitherow Jackson Bagot Fernhill Cathcart Elgin Head Monck Lower Canada (1791–1841) Carleton (con't from 1791) Prescott Milnes Dunn Craig Prévost Drummond Wilson Sherbrooke Richmond Dalhousie Aylmer Gosford Colborne Durham Sydenham British Province of Quebec (1759–1791)* Amherst Murray Carleton Haldimand Carleton (2nd Time) The Crown's representative from 1759 to 1791, and from 1841 to 1866 held the office and rank of Governor-General