1818 in Canada
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Events from the year 1818 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
Events
- April 1 â An expedition sails for the North Pole.
- August 28 â The Governor (Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond) dies of rabies.
Full date unknown
- Halifax and St. John's are made free ports.
- 49th parallel becomes British North America/U.S. border from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains
- Dalhousie University is established.[2]
Births
- January 17 â Antoine-Aimé Dorion, politician and jurist (d. 1891)
- March 10 â John Ross, lawyer, politician, and businessman. Born in County Antrim, Ireland (d. 1871)
- March 19 â Ãlisabeth Bruyère, nun (d. 1876)
- March 25 â Edwin Randolph Oakes, politician (d.1889)
- May 8 â Samuel Leonard Tilley, Premier of New Brunswick (d. 1896)
- September â Hugh Cossart Baker, Sr., banker, businessman and mathematician (d.1859)
- September 4 â Louis-François Richer Laflèche, diocese of Trois-Rivières (d.1898)
- October 1 â David Christie, politician (d.1880)
- November 29 â George Brown, journalist, politician and one of the Fathers of the Confederation (d.1880)
Full date unknown
- Alexander Francis Macdonald, politician (d.1913)
Deaths
- January 1 - Richard Pattinson, politician (born 1773)
- August 3 - John Jones, Lower Canada Assemblyman (born c.â1752)
- November 25 â Jonathan Odell, poet (born 1737)