1821 in Canada

Events from the year 1821 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

• July 17 – Construction of the Lachine Canal in Montreal begins.
• July – The Hudson's Bay Company merges with archrivals, the Montreal-based North West Company, creating unemployment for a substantial proportion of their Métis workforce.
• No foreigners allowed in Russian-American waters, except at regular ports of call.

Births

• February 21 – John Beverley Robinson, politician (d.1896)
• March 12 – John Abbott, politician and 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (d.1893)

• July 2 – Charles Tupper, politician, Premier of Nova Scotia and 6th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1915)
• July 6 – Henri Bernier, politician, businessman and manufacturer (d.1893)
• August 13 – Philip Carteret Hill, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1894)
• August 18 – Maurice Laframboise, lawyer, judge and politician (d.1882)

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