1827 in Canada

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: Howard Douglas
• 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

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