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1821 in Canada

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1821 in Canada

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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.
John Abbott

Births

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

References

References

  1. "King George IV".
  2. "Biography – ABBOTT, Sir JOHN JOSEPH CALDWELL – Volume XII (1891-1900) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography".
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