1818 in Canada

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

• Alexander Francis Macdonald, politician (d.1913)

Deaths

• January 1 - Richard Pattinson, politician (born 1773)
• August 3 - John Jones, Lower Canada Assemblyman (born )
• November 25 – Jonathan Odell, poet (born 1737)

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