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1825 in Canada

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Events from the year 1825 in Canada.

Incumbents

  • Monarch: George IV

Federal government

  • Parliament of Lower Canada: 12th (starting January 8)
  • Parliament of Upper Canada: 9th (starting January 11)

Governors

  • Governor of the Canadas: George Ramsay
  • Governor of New Brunswick: Howard Douglas
  • Governor of Nova Scotia: James Kempt
  • Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Thomas John Cochrane
  • Governor of Prince Edward Island: Charles Douglass Smith

Events

  • January 2 – The Parliament House, in Toronto, is burned.
  • June 27 – The Canada Company is founded
  • September 7 – Soldiers of the 70th Regiment subdue a fire, which consumes over eighty buildings, in Montreal.
  • September to October: The Great Miramichi Fire destroys at least 10 000 km2 to 20,000 km2 and killing at least 280 people.
  • October 26 – US finishes Erie Canal from Buffalo to Hudson River and New York City.
  • The Peter Robinson settlement brings 2,000 poor Irish families to Scott's Plains (now Peterborough, Ontario)

Births

  • February 24 – Richard William Scott, politician and Minister (died 1913)
  • March 22 – Jane Mackenzie, second wife of Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (died 1893)
  • March 24 – Joseph-Octave Beaubien, physician and politician (died 1877)
  • April 13 – D'Arcy McGee, journalist, politician and Father of Confederation, assassinated (died 1868)
  • May 25 – William Hallett Ray, politician, (died 1909)
  • May 29 – William Henry Pope, lawyer, politician, judge and a Father of Confederation (died 1879)
  • July 29 – Thomas McGreevy, politician and contractor (died 1897)
  • August 12 – Louis-Charles Boucher de Niverville, lawyer and politician (died 1869)
  • August 20 – Amor De Cosmos, journalist, politician and 2nd Premier of British Columbia (died 1897)

Full date unknown

  • Big Bear, Cree leader (died 1888)

References

References

  1. "King George IV".
  2. "Anniversary of the Opening of the Erie Canal in 1825".
  3. "Biography – DE COSMOS, AMOR – Volume XII (1891-1900) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography".
  4. "Biography – MISTAHIMASKWA (Big Bear, Gros Ours) – Volume XI (1881-1890) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography".
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