Английская Википедия:1823 in Canada

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Шаблон:Year in Canada Шаблон:History of Canada Events from the year 1823 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: George IV

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

• May 10 – Louis-Joseph Papineau and John Neilson are in London to present a petition of 60,000 signatures against favouring Union of the colonies
• October 14 – At a meeting, in Montreal, Mr. (afterwards Sir) James Stuart favors Union.

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• Shanawdithit, the last known Beothuk is found
• British expedition up the St. Clair River; site of Corunna surveyed as a potential capital for Upper Canada
• Smiths Falls, Ontario is founded
• Ward Chipman replaces George Stracey Smyth as Governor of New Brunswick
• Peter Robinson organizes land settlements of Irish Catholics to Carelton and Lanark County, Ontario

Arts and literature

New Books

• A General Description of Nova Scotia, Thomas Chandler Haliburton his first work
• James Fenimore Cooper's first volume of his Leatherstocking series published in United States.

Births

• February 24 – William Murdoch, poet (died 1887)
• March 30 – James Cox Aikins, politician, Minister and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (died 1904)
• April 29 – Hart Massey, businessman and philanthropist (died 1896)
• June 2 – Gédéon Ouimet, politician and 2nd Premier of Quebec (died 1905)

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• June 13 – David Breakenridge Read, lawyer and 14th Mayor of Toronto (died 1904)
• June 17 – Henri Faraud, Roman Catholic bishop (died 1890)
• July 23 – Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Roman Catholic priest, missionary, author and Archbishop (died 1894)
• August 13 – Goldwin Smith, historian and journalist (died 1910)
• October 16 – Marc-Aurèle Plamondon, lawyer, journalist, publisher, and judge (died 1900)
• November 10 – Thomas Arkell, politician, farmer and grain merchant (died 1906)
• December 27 – Mackenzie Bowell, politician and 5th Prime Minister of Canada, Born in Rickinghall, England. (died 1917)