1819 in Canada explained

Events from the year 1819 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch

George III^[1]

Federal government

• Parliament of Lower Canada

• Parliament of Upper Canada

7th

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

• Cape Breton Island is annexed to Nova Scotia.

Births

• February 12
  • Frederick Carter, Premier of Newfoundland (d.1900)
  • Eden Colvile, Governor of Rupert's Land (d.1893)
• February 13 — James Cockburn, politician (d.1883)^[2]
• March 1 — Alexander Melville Bell, educator (d.1905)
• April 18 — James Gibb Ross, merchant and politician (d.1888)
• August 10 — Patrick Leonard MacDougall, General and author (d.1894)
• October 3 — Charles-Joseph Coursol, lawyer, politician and 13th Mayor of Montreal (d.1888)
• October 10 — Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck, Governor General (d.1894)

Full date unknown

• Louis-Antoine Dessaulles, seigneur, journalist and politician (d.1895)

Deaths

• March  - Nonosabasut, Beothuk (indigenous Canadian) leader
• November 15  - Joseph Borneuf, Roman Catholic priest^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: 31 December 2015 . George III . 18 April 2016 . Official website of the British monarchy . Royal Household.
2. Cockburn, James . 11 . Donald . Swainson.
3. Borneuf, Jospeh . Louis . Rousseau . V . 5 January 2024.