• Source: 1817 in Canada

      • Events from the year 1817 in Canada.


      Incumbents


      Monarch: George III


      = Federal government

      =
      Parliament of Lower Canada: 9th (starting January 15)
      Parliament of Upper Canada: 7th (starting February 4)


      = 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


      February 4 – Francois Page petitions for monopoly of navigation of Lower Canadian Rivers, by an invention of which he produces a model.
      February 18 – Mr. McCord reads a petition for the deepening of the St. Lawrence.
      February 28 – One Goudie and others petition for a monopoly of navigation of Lake Champlain, in Canada, as like U.S. monopolists injure Canadian Commerce, by trading into Canada.


      = Full date unknown

      =
      Famine in Newfoundland due to poor postwar economy.
      Nova Scotia population estimated at 78,345.
      David Thompson takes post as chief surveyor for International Boundary Commission.
      The Rush-Bagot Agreement limits the number of battleships on the Great Lakes to a total of eight.


      Births


      January 1 – Francis Godschall Johnson, politician (d.1894)
      January 29 – John Palliser, explorer and geographer (d.1887)
      February 17 – Donald Alexander Macdonald, politician (d.1896)
      September 6 – Alexander Tilloch Galt, politician and a Father of Confederation (d.1893)
      November 8 – Théophile Hamel, painter (d.1870)
      November 23 – William Jack, astronomer (d.1886)


      = Full date unknown

      =
      John Chipman Wade, politician and lawyer (d.1892)


      Deaths


      November 23 – James Glenie, army officer, military engineer, businessman, office holder, and politician (b.1750)


      References

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