1817 in Canada
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Events from the year 1817 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
- Parliament of Lower Canada: 9th (starting January 15)
- Parliament of Upper Canada: 7th (starting February 4)
Governors
Events
- February 4 â Francois Page petitions for monopoly of navigation of Lower Canadian Rivers, by an invention of which he produces a model.
- February 18 â Mr. McCord reads a petition for the deepening of the St. Lawrence.
- February 28 â 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 â Francis Godschall Johnson, politician (d.1894)
- January 29 â John Palliser, explorer and geographer (d.1887)
- February 17 â Donald Alexander Macdonald, politician (d.1896)
- September 6 â Alexander Tilloch Galt, politician and a Father of Confederation (d.1893)
- November 8 â Théophile Hamel, painter (d.1870)
- November 23 â William Jack, astronomer (d.1886)
Full date unknown
- John Chipman Wade, politician and lawyer (d.1892)[2]
Deaths
- November 23 â James Glenie, army officer, military engineer, businessman, office holder, and politician (b.1750)