1833 in Canada

Events from the year 1833 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: William IV

Federal government

• Parliament of Lower Canada: 14th
• Parliament of Upper Canada: 11th

Governors

• Governor of the Canadas: Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer
• Governor of New Brunswick: Sir Archibald Campbell, 1st Baronet
• Governor of Nova Scotia: Thomas Nickleson Jeffery
• Civil Governor of Newfoundland: Thomas John Cochrane
• Governor of Prince Edward Island: Murray Maxwell
• Governor of Upper Canada: John Colborne

Events

• September – William Lyon Mackenzie returns from the United Kingdom.
• September 19 – Military riot at Montreal.
• November 13 – Meteor showers at Niagara, Ontario.
• November to December – William Lyon Mackenzie expelled three times and re-elected twice.
• Royal William, formerly operating between Quebec and Halifax, becomes first steamship to cross Atlantic.

Births

• April 22 – John Waldie, politician (died 1907)
• July 7 – Henry Joseph Clarke, lawyer, politician and 3rd Premier of Manitoba (died 1889)
• September 3 – Byron Moffatt Britton, politician, lawyer and lecturer (died 1920)
• September 15 – Alexander Roberts Dunn, first Canadian awarded the Victoria Cross (died 1868)
• October 13 – Edward Blake, politician and 2nd Premier of Ontario (died 1912)
• November 24 – Antoine Labelle, priest and settler (died 1891)
• December 10 – George Haddow, politician and merchant (died 1919)

Deaths

• March 3 – James Bardin Palmer, land agent, lawyer, office holder, and politician (born 1771)
• November 20 – Joel Stone, founder of Gananoque, Ontario (born 1749)

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