1822 in Canada

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Events from the year 1822 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

  • Monarch: George IV

Federal government[]

  • Parliament of Lower Canada: 11th
  • Parliament of Upper Canada: 8th

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[]

  • Louis-Joseph Papineau, a member of the legislative assembly since 1814, travels from Montreal to England to oppose an Act of Union identifying the French Canadians as a minority without language rights. The act is not passed in the British Parliament.

Births[]

Alexander Mackenzie
  • January 9 – George William Allan, politician and 11th Mayor of Toronto (died 1901)
  • January 25 – William McDougall, lawyer, politician and a Father of Confederation (died 1905)
  • January 28 – Alexander Mackenzie, building contractor, newspaper editor, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (died 1892)
  • March 9 – Alexander Campbell, politician, Senator and 6th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (died 1892)
  • March 12 – Albert James Smith, politician and Minister (died 1883)
  • April 25 – Marc-Amable Girard, politician, Senator and 2nd Premier of Manitoba (died 1892)
  • May 4 – Charles Boucher de Boucherville, politician and 3rd Premier of Quebec (died 1915)
  • July 16 – Charles Sangster, poet (died 1893)
  • August 31 – Timothy Anglin, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (died 1896)
  • October 2 – Matthew Crooks Cameron, lawyer, judge and politician (died 1887)
  • November 1 – Lemuel Owen, shipbuilder, banker, merchant, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1912)
  • November 13 – Thomas Heath Haviland, politician (died 1895)

Full date unknown[]

  • Harvey William Burk, politician and farmer (died 1907)

Deaths[]

  • December 17 – Peter Fidler, fur trader, mapmaker, explorer (born 1769)

References[]

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