1809 in Canada

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Events from the year 1809 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: George III^[1]

Parliaments of Canada

• Parliament of Lower Canada: 5th (April 10 – May 18)
• Parliament of Upper Canada: 5th (starting February 2)

Governors

• Governor of the Canadas: James Henry Craig
• Governor of New Brunswick: Thomas Carleton
• Governor of Nova Scotia: George Prevost
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: John Holloway
• Governor of Prince Edward Island: Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres
• Governor of Upper Canada: Francis Gore

Events

• On August 17, the foundation of Nelson's Column, Montreal was laid.^[2]
• November 3: John Molson's steamboat, PS Accommodation, starts for Quebec City. It is 85 feet (26 m) overall, has a 6 horsepower (4.5 kW) engine, and makes the distance in 36 hours, but stops at night and reaches Quebec on November 6. The Accommodation is the second steamboat in America, and probably the world.
• From 1809 to 1811,
  Ohio Valley, and Southeast against the United States. His brother Tenskwatawa, the Shawnee Prophet, is defeated at the Battle of Tippecanoe
  in 1811.
• Napoleon's continental blockade cuts British access to Scandinavian timber.
• The North West Company builds Fort Gibraltar.

Births

• January 31 – Lemuel Allan Wilmot, lawyer, politician, judge, and 3rd Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (d.1878)
• March 27 – Jean-Louis Beaudry, entrepreneur, politician and 11th Mayor of Montreal (d.1886)
• May 15 – Pierre-Eustache Dostaler, politician (d.1884)
• June 15 – François-Xavier Garneau, notary, civil servant, poet and historian (d.1866)
• July 25 – Jonathan McCully, politician (d.1877)
• October 11 – Modeste Demers, missionary (d.1871)
• November 15 – Charles La Rocque, priest and third Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe (d.1875)
• November 24 – Amos Wright, politician (d.1886)

Deaths

• July 3 – Joseph Quesnel, musician (b. 1746)^[3]

References