1822 in Canada
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Events from the year 1822 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
Events
- Louis-Joseph Papineau and John Neilson, both members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, travel from Montreal to England to oppose an Act of Union identifying the French Canadians as a minority without language rights. The act is not passed in the British Parliament.
Births
- January 9 â George William Allan, politician and 11th Mayor of Toronto (died 1901)
- January 25 â William McDougall, lawyer, politician and a Father of Confederation (died 1905)
- January 28 â Alexander Mackenzie, building contractor, newspaper editor, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (died 1892)
- March 9 â Alexander Campbell, politician, Senator and 6th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (died 1892)
- March 12 â Albert James Smith, politician and Minister (died 1883)
- April 25 â Marc-Amable Girard, politician, Senator and 2nd Premier of Manitoba (died 1892)
- May 2 â Jacob Yost Shantz, Mennonite farmer, businessman and industrialist (died 1909)
- May 4 â Charles Boucher de Boucherville, politician and 3rd Premier of Quebec (died 1915)
- July 16 â Charles Sangster, poet (died 1893)
- August 31 â Timothy Anglin, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (died 1896)
- October 2 â Matthew Crooks Cameron, lawyer, judge and politician (died 1887)
- November 1 â Lemuel Owen, shipbuilder, banker, merchant, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1912)
- November 13 â Thomas Heath Haviland, politician (died 1895)
Full date unknown
- Harvey William Burk, politician and farmer (died 1907)
Deaths
- December 17 â Peter Fidler, fur trader, mapmaker, explorer (born 1769)[2]