1825 in Canada
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Events from the year 1825 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
- Parliament of Lower Canada: 12th (starting January 8)
- Parliament of Upper Canada: 9th (starting January 11)
Governors
Events
- January 2 â The Parliament House, in Toronto, is burned.
- June 27 â The Canada Company is founded
- September 7 â Soldiers of the 70th Regiment subdue a fire, which consumes over eighty buildings, in Montreal.
- September to October: The Great Miramichi Fire destroys at least 10 000 km2 to 20,000 km2 and killing at least 280 people.
- October 26 â US finishes Erie Canal from Buffalo to Hudson River and New York City.[2]
- The Peter Robinson settlement brings 2,000 poor Irish families to Scott's Plains (now Peterborough, Ontario)
Births
- February 24 â Richard William Scott, politician and Minister (died 1913)
- March 22 â Jane Mackenzie, second wife of Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (died 1893)
- March 24 â Joseph-Octave Beaubien, physician and politician (died 1877)
- April 13 â D'Arcy McGee, journalist, politician and Father of Confederation, assassinated (died 1868)
- May 25 â William Hallett Ray, politician, (died 1909)
- May 29 â William Henry Pope, lawyer, politician, judge and a Father of Confederation (died 1879)
- July 29 â Thomas McGreevy, politician and contractor (died 1897)
- August 12 â Louis-Charles Boucher de Niverville, lawyer and politician (died 1869)
- August 20 â Amor De Cosmos, journalist, politician and 2nd Premier of British Columbia (died 1897) [3]