1815 in Canada

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Robert Prescott, governor of British North America
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Events from the year 1815 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

  • Monarch: George III

Federal government[]

  • Parliament of Lower Canada: 8th (starting January 21)
  • Parliament of Upper Canada: 6th

Governors[]

  • Governor of the Canadas: Robert Milnes
  • Governor of New Brunswick: George Prévost
  • Governor of Nova Scotia: John Coape Sherbrooke
  • Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Richard Goodwin Keats
  • Governor of Prince Edward Island: Charles Douglass Smith

Events[]

  • Great Migration from Europe begins.
  • January – Unaware of the Treaty of Ghent, Gen. Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) wins an overwhelming victory at the Battle of New Orleans.
  • February 9 – A bill to give the speaker a salary is read: the salary is 1,000 pounds.
  • February 18 – The United States ratify Treaties, signed in December 1814.
  • March 25 – Governor George Prevost informs Parliament, that then-Prince Regent George IV has ordered him to England, to answer charges of the naval commander.
  • March – Parliament votes 25,000 pounds for a canal from Montreal to Lachine.

Births[]

  • January 10 – John A. Macdonald, politician and 1st Prime Minister of Canada, Born in Glasgow, Scotland. (died 1891)
  • March 7: Thomas Wood, Member of the Legislative Council of Quebec for Bedford
  • June 19 – Cornelius Krieghoff, artist (died 1872)
  • September 18 – Joseph Duquet, notary in Lower Canada, executed
  • October 15 – Pierre Antoine Deblois, Senator for La Salle, Quebec

Deaths[]

  • December 21 – Robert Prescott, Governor of Canada (born 1725)

References[]

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