1822 in Canada

Decades:

• 1800s
• 1810s
• 1820s
• 1830s
• 1840s

See also:

• History of Canada
• Timeline of Canadian history
• List of years in Canada

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Events from the year 1822 in Canada.

• Monarch: George IV ^[1]

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

• 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

• Louis-Joseph Papineau and John Neilson, both members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, travel from Montreal to England to oppose an Act of Union identifying the French Canadians as a minority without language rights. The act is not passed in the British Parliament.

• January 9 – George William Allan, politician and 11th Mayor of Toronto (died 1901)
• January 25 – William McDougall, lawyer, politician and a 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 – Jacob Yost Shantz, 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 – Timothy Anglin, politician and 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)

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

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