1817 in Canada

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Events from the year 1817 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

• Monarch: George III

Federal government[]

• Parliament of Lower Canada: 9th (starting January 15)
• Parliament of Upper Canada: 7th (starting February 4)

Governors[]

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

Events[]

• February 4 – Francois Page petitions for monopoly of navigation of Lower Canadian Rivers, by an invention of which he produces a model.
• February 18 – Mr. McCord reads a petition for the deepening of the St. Lawrence.
• February 28 – One Goudie and others petition for a monopoly of navigation of Lake Champlain, in Canada, as like U.S. monopolists injure Canadian Commerce, by trading into Canada.

Full date unknown[]

• Famine in Newfoundland due to poor postwar economy.
• Nova Scotia population estimated at 78,345.
• David Thompson takes post as chief surveyor for International Boundary Commission.
• The Rush-Bagot Agreement limits the number of battleships on the Great Lakes to a total of eight.

Births[]

• January 1 – Francis Godschall Johnson, politician (d.1894)
• January 29 – John Palliser, explorer and geographer (d.1887)
• February 17 – Donald Alexander Macdonald, politician (d.1896)
• September 6 – Alexander Tilloch Galt, politician and a Father of Confederation (d.1893)
• November 8 – Théophile Hamel, painter (d.1870)
• November 23 – William Jack, astronomer (d.1886)

Full date unknown[]

• John Chipman Wade, politician and lawyer (d.1892)

Deaths[]

• November 23 – James Glenie, army officer, military engineer, businessman, office holder, and politician (b.1750)

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