1826 in Canada

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Events from the year 1826 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

  • Monarch: George IV

Federal government[]

  • Parliament of Lower Canada: 12th
  • Parliament of Upper Canada: 9th

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[]

  • June 8 – A mob of the ruling party, the Family Compact, destroy the Colonial Advocate's press at York. William Lyon Mackenzie, publisher, prosecutes and is awarded £625 in damages.
  • September 21 – Construction of the Rideau Canal begins.

Births[]

  • March 10 – Louis-Ovide Brunet, priest and botanist (died 1876)
  • March 17 – Alexander Morris, politician, Minister and 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (died 1889)
  • June 11 – James Colledge Pope, politician and 5th Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1885)
  • June 21 – Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Governor General of Canada (died 1902)
  • June 23 – Louis Babel, priest (d. 1912)
  • June 29 – Robert Christie, Ontario businessman and politician (died 1914)
  • July 21 – Hugh Richardson, jurist (died 1913)
  • August 25 – Hector-Louis Langevin, lawyer, politician and a Father of Confederation (died 1906)
  • September 17 – Jean-Baptiste-Éric Dorion, journalist and politician (died 1866)

Deaths[]

  • November 18 – James Monk, chief justice

References[]

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