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===Governors=== |
===Governors=== |
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*[[Governor General of the Province of Canada|Governor of the Canadas]]: [[]] |
*[[Governor General of the Province of Canada|Governor of the Canadas]]: [[Robert Milnes]] |
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*[[List of lieutenant governors of New Brunswick|Governor of New Brunswick]]: [[]] |
*[[List of lieutenant governors of New Brunswick|Governor of New Brunswick]]: [[George Prévost]] |
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*[[Governor of Nova Scotia]]: [[]] |
*[[Governor of Nova Scotia]]: [[John Wentworth (governor)|John Wentworth]] |
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*[[Colonial Governor of Newfoundland|Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland]]: [[]] |
*[[Colonial Governor of Newfoundland|Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland]]: [[Charles Morice Pole]] |
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*[[List of lieutenant governors of Prince Edward Island|Governor of |
*[[List of lieutenant governors of Prince Edward Island|Governor of St. John's Island]]: [[Edmund Fanning]] |
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*[[List of lieutenant governors of Ontario|Governor of Upper Canada]]: [[]] |
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==Events== |
==Events== |
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Events from the year 1817 in Canada.
Incumbents
Governors
- Governor of the Canadas: Robert Milnes
- Governor of New Brunswick: George Prévost
- Governor of Nova Scotia: John Wentworth
- Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Charles Morice Pole
- Governor of St. John's Island: Edmund Fanning
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)
