Joaquín Canaveris (1789 – c. 1833) was an Argentine attorney, merchant, politician and military man, who served as consignee in The Consulate of Buenos Aires.

[1] He had an active participation in the defense of Buenos Aires during the English invasions, serving as an Assistant in the battalion of Tercio de Vizcaínos.

He is registered in the Gazeta de Buenos Ayres on Saturday, April 6, 1816, participating in the donations tending to the financing of the liberation expeditions that took place during the Argentine War of Independence.

In 1816 he was appointed to integrate a regiment of urban militias created by order of the Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata.

[13] He served as legal executor in several testamentary, including his services provided to Mariano Olier, to his grandmother María Eugenia Sánchez, and his brother-in-law Juan Bayá Más Rosell.

[18] On November 14 of the same year he introduced a cargo in Buenos Aires that included, tobacco, twenty barrels of butter and bags of peanuts.

[19] He also sent a shipment to the Port of Maldonado that included farm equipment, black tobacco, wheat and thread destined for Uruguayan naval vessels.

His great granddaughter, María Elena Canavery, was married to Cornelio Casablanca, a manager of the Banco Español del Río de la Plata.

[28] Fulfilling his services as judge of Carmen de Areco, he was commissioned to combat the illegal practice of medicine exercised by healers of Scottish or Irish origin.

[31] He was registered in the July 14, 1864 edition of the newspaper The Standard and River Plate News, where it is mentioned participating in the celebrations for the anniversary of the declaration of Independence of the Argentine Republic.