1830 in Canada
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Events from the year 1830 in Canada.
Incumbents
- Monarch: George IV (until June 26),[1] then William IV[2]
Federal government
- Parliament of Lower Canada: 13th
- Parliament of Upper Canada: 10th (until March 6)
Governors
Events
- Influenza epidemic strikes tribes of British Columbia.
- Canada is divided into counties.
- William Lyon Mackenzie re-elected to the Assembly with a Reform minority.
- Ridout's Hardware Store, later known as Aikenhead's Hardware opens in Toronto.
Births
- March 1 â James Armstrong, politician (died 1893)[3]
- August 7 â Thomas White, journalist and politician (died 1888)
- November 18 â Michel Auger, politician (died 1909)
Full date unknown
- Crowfoot, a chief of the Siksika First Nation (died 1890)
- Benjamin Allen, politician (died 1912)
Deaths
- June 24 â François Blanchet, author, physician, teacher, militia officer, businessman, seigneur, politician, office holder (born 1776)
- September 6 â Abraham Erb, Mennonite settler and miller who founded Waterloo, Ontario (born 1772)