1818 in Canada

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Centuries: 18th century · 19th century · 20th century
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Years: 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821

Events from the year 1818 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

  • Monarch: George III

Federal government[]

  • Parliament of Lower Canada: 9th
  • Parliament of Upper Canada: 7th

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[]

  • April 1 – An expedition sails for the North Pole.
  • August 28 – The Governor (Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond) dies of rabies.

Full date unknown[]

  • Halifax and St. John's are made free ports.
  • 49th parallel becomes British North America/U.S. border from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains
  • Dalhousie University is established.

Births[]

  • January 17 – Antoine-Aimé Dorion, politician and jurist (d. 1891)
  • March 10 – John Ross, lawyer, politician, and businessman. Born in County Antrim, Ireland (d. 1871)
  • March 19 – Élisabeth Bruyère, nun (d. 1876)
  • March 25 – Edwin Randolph Oakes, politician (d.1889)
  • May 8 – Samuel Leonard Tilley, Premier of New Brunswick (d. 1896)
  • September – Hugh Cossart Baker, Sr., banker, businessman and mathematician (d.1859)
  • September 4 – Louis-François Richer Laflèche, diocese of Trois-Rivières (d.1898)
  • October 1 – David Christie, politician (d.1880)
  • November 29 – George Brown, journalist, politician and one of the Fathers of the Confederation (d.1880)

Full date unknown[]

Deaths[]

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