1815 in Canada

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See also:	History of Canada Timeline of Canadian history List of years in Canada

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Here are events and incumbents from 1815 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: George III^[1]

Federal government

• Parliament of Lower Canada: 8th (starting January 21)
• Parliament of Upper Canada: 6th

Governors

• Governor of the Canadas: George Prevost then Gordon Drummond
• Governor of New Brunswick: Thomas Carleton
• Governor of Nova Scotia: John Coape Sherbrooke
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Richard Goodwin Keats
• Governor of Prince Edward Island: Charles Douglass Smith
• Governor of Upper Canada: Francis Gore

Events

• The Great Migration from Europe begins.
• January – Unaware of the Treaty of Ghent, General Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) wins the Battle of New Orleans.
• February 9 – A bill to give the speaker a salary of 1,000 pounds is read.
• February 18 – The United States ratifies treaties signed in December 1814.
• March 25 – Governor
  George IV
  has ordered him to England to answer charges of the naval commander.
• March – Parliament allocates 25,000 pounds for a canal from Montreal to Lachine.

Births

• January 10 – John A. Macdonald, politician and 1st Prime Minister of Canada, Born in Glasgow, Scotland. (died 1891)^[2]
• March 7:
  Thomas Wood
  , Member of the Legislative Council of Quebec for Bedford, died in office, 1898
• June 19 – Cornelius Krieghoff, painter (died 1872)
• September 18 – Joseph Duquet, notary in Lower Canada, executed in 1838
• October 15 – Pierre Antoine Deblois, Senator for La Salle, Quebec, died in office, 1898

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