1819 in Canada

Events from the year 1819 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

• Cape Breton Island is annexed to Nova Scotia.

Births

• February 12
• Frederick Carter, Premier of Newfoundland (d.1900)
• Eden Colvile, Governor of Rupert's Land (d.1893)
• February 13 — James Cockburn, politician (d.1883)
• March 1 — Alexander Melville Bell, educator (d.1905)
• April 18 — James Gibb Ross, merchant and politician (d.1888)
• August 10 — Patrick Leonard MacDougall, General and author (d.1894)
• October 3 — Charles-Joseph Coursol, lawyer, politician and 13th Mayor of Montreal (d.1888)
• October 10 — Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck, Governor General (d.1894)

Full date unknown

• Louis-Antoine Dessaulles, seigneur, journalist and politician (d.1895)

Deaths

• March – Nonosabasut, Beothuk (indigenous Canadian) leader
• November 15 – Joseph Borneuf, Roman Catholic priest

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