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*[[List of Canadian monarchs|Monarch]]: [[George III]]<ref name="rh">{{cite web |date=31 December 2015 |title=George III |url=https://www.royal.uk/george-iii-r-1760-1820 |access-date=18 April 2016 |website=Official website of the British monarchy |publisher=Royal Household}}</ref> |
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Events from the year 1817 in Canada.
Incumbents
[edit]Federal government
[edit]- Parliament of Lower Canada: 9th (starting January 15)
- Parliament of Upper Canada: 7th (starting February 4)
Governors
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- John Chipman Wade, politician and lawyer (d.1892)[2]
Deaths
[edit]- November 23 – James Glenie, army officer, military engineer, businessman, office holder, and politician (b.1750)
References
[edit]- ^ "George III". Official website of the British monarchy. Royal Household. 31 December 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- ^ "Profile". lop.parl.ca. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
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