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)
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