1827 in Canada

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Events from the year 1827 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

  • Monarch: George IV

Federal government[]

  • Parliament of Lower Canada: 12th (until July 5), 13th (starting November 20)
  • 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
  • Civil Governor of Newfoundland: Thomas John Cochrane
  • Governor of Prince Edward Island: Charles Douglass Smith

Events[]

  • March 15 – The University of Toronto is chartered
  • First temperance society in Canada formed in Montreal
  • Elections overwhelmingly in favour of the Parti Patriote much to the annoyance of the British.
  • 87,000 people in Lower Canada sign a petition denouncing the political abuses of the Château Clique.

Births[]

  • January 3 – Letitia Youmans, temperance advocate (died 1896)
  • January 7 – Sandford Fleming, engineer and inventor (died 1915)
  • February 28 – Albert Lacombe, missionary (died 1916)
  • April 16 – Octave Crémazie, poet (died 1879)
  • August 22 – Ezra Butler Eddy, businessman
  • October 21 – Charles Laberge, lawyer, journalist and politician (died 1874)
  • November 17 – William Evan Price, businessman and politician (died 1880)
  • December 27 – Pierre-Alexis Tremblay, politician (died 1879)

Deaths[]

  • August 31 – Jean Boudreau, politician

References[]

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