1822 in Canada

Events from the year 1822 in Canada.

Incumbents

Louis-Joseph Papineau and John Neilson, both members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, travel from Montreal to England to oppose an Act of Union identifying the French Canadians as a minority without language rights. The act is not passed in the British Parliament.

January 9 Ã¢ÂÂ George William Allan, politician and 11th Mayor of Toronto (died 1901)
January 25 Ã¢ÂÂ William McDougall, lawyer, politician and a Father of Confederation (died 1905)
January 28 Ã¢ÂÂ Alexander Mackenzie, building contractor, newspaper editor, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (died 1892)
March 9 Ã¢ÂÂ Alexander Campbell, politician, Senator and 6th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (died 1892)
March 12 Ã¢ÂÂ Albert James Smith, politician and Minister (died 1883)
April 25 Ã¢ÂÂ Marc-Amable Girard, politician, Senator and 2nd Premier of Manitoba (died 1892)
May 2 Ã¢ÂÂ Jacob Yost Shantz, Mennonite farmer, businessman and industrialist (died 1909)
May 4 Ã¢ÂÂ Charles Boucher de Boucherville, politician and 3rd Premier of Quebec (died 1915)
July 16 Ã¢ÂÂ Charles Sangster, poet (died 1893)
August 31 Ã¢ÂÂ Timothy Anglin, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (died 1896)
October 2 Ã¢ÂÂ Matthew Crooks Cameron, lawyer, judge and politician (died 1887)
November 1 Ã¢ÂÂ Lemuel Owen, shipbuilder, banker, merchant, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1912)
November 13 Ã¢ÂÂ Thomas Heath Haviland, politician (died 1895)