1826 in Canada
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Events from the year 1826 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
Events
- June 8 â A mob of the ruling party, the Family Compact, destroy the Colonial Advocate's press at York. Wilton, Carol.[2] William Lyon Mackenzie, publisher, prosecutes and is awarded £625 in damages.
- September 21 â Construction of the Rideau Canal begins.
Births
- March 10 â Louis-Ovide Brunet, priest and botanist (died 1876)
- March 17 â Alexander Morris, politician, Minister and 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (died 1889)
- June 11 â James Colledge Pope, politician and 5th Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1885)
- June 21 â Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Governor General of Canada (died 1902)
- June 23 â Louis Babel, priest (d. 1912)
- June 29 â Robert Christie, Ontario businessman and politician (died 1914)
- July 21 â Hugh Richardson, jurist (died 1913)
- August 25 â Hector-Louis Langevin, lawyer, politician and a Father of Confederation (died 1906)
- September 17 â Jean-Baptiste-Ãric Dorion, journalist and politician (died 1866)
Deaths
- November 18 â James Monk, chief justice