1827 in Canada
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Events from the year 1827 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
- Parliament of Lower Canada: 12th (until July 5), 13th (starting November 20)
- Parliament of Upper Canada: 9th
Governors
Events
- March 15 â The University of Toronto is chartered
- First temperance society in Canada formed in Montreal
- Elections overwhelmingly in favour of the Parti Patriote much to the annoyance of the British.
- 87,000 people in Lower Canada sign a petition denouncing the political abuses of the Château Clique.
Births
- January 3 â Letitia Youmans, temperance advocate (died 1896)
- January 7 â Sandford Fleming, engineer and inventor (died 1915)
- February 28 â Albert Lacombe, missionary (died 1916)
- April 16 â Octave Crémazie, poet (died 1879)
- August 22 â Ezra Butler Eddy, businessman
- October 21 â Charles Laberge, lawyer, journalist and politician (died 1874)
- November 17 â William Evan Price, businessman and politician (died 1880)[2]
- December 27 â Pierre-Alexis Tremblay, politician (died 1879)
Deaths
- August 31 â Jean Boudreau, politician