1822 in Canada

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Events from the year 1822 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: George IV^[1]

Federal government

• Parliament of Lower Canada: 11th
• Parliament of Upper Canada: 8th

Governors

• Governor of the Canadas: Robert Milnes
• Governor of New Brunswick: George Stracey Smyth
• Governor of Nova Scotia: John Coape Sherbrooke
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Richard Goodwin Keats
• Governor of Prince Edward Island: Charles Douglass Smith

Events

• British Parliament
  .

Births

• January 9 – George William Allan, politician and 11th Mayor of Toronto (died 1901)
• January 25 –
  Father of Confederation (died 1905
  )
• January 28 – Alexander Mackenzie, building contractor, newspaper editor, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (died 1892)
• March 9 –
  Alexander Campbell, politician, Senator and 6th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (died 1892
  )
• March 12 – Albert James Smith, politician and Minister (died 1883)
• April 25 – Marc-Amable Girard, politician, Senator and 2nd Premier of Manitoba (died 1892)
• May 2 –
  Mennonite farmer, businessman and industrialist (died 1909
  )
• May 4 – Charles Boucher de Boucherville, politician and 3rd Premier of Quebec (died 1915)
• July 16 – Charles Sangster, poet (died 1893)
• August 31 –
  Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (died 1896
  )
• October 2 – Matthew Crooks Cameron, lawyer, judge and politician (died 1887)
• November 1 – Lemuel Owen, shipbuilder, banker, merchant, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1912)
• November 13 – Thomas Heath Haviland, politician (died 1895)

Full date unknown

• Harvey William Burk, politician and farmer (died 1907)

Deaths

• December 17 –
  Peter Fidler, fur trader, mapmaker, explorer (born 1769)^[2]