sentences:  Edmund Fanning, a recently arrived Loyalist, was named Parr's new lieutenant-governor.Parr immediately took over as colonel of the Royal Nova Scotia Volunteer Regiment.In 1786, when the colonial administration of British North America was reorganized, Parr had hoped to be named to the new position of Governor-General of The Canadas and Governor-in-Chief of British North America but was disappointed when the position went to Guy Carleton, who was elevated to the peerage as Lord Dorchester.