1815_in_Canada
Here are events and incumbents from 1815 in Canada.
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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
- 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 Prevost informs Parliament that then-prince regent 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.
- 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
- "George III". Official website of the British monarchy. Royal Household. 31 December 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- Gwyn, Richard J. (2007–2011). John A. : the man who made us : the life and times of John A. Macdonald. Toronto: Random House Canada. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-679-31475-2. OCLC 141842594.