Events from the year 1819 in Canada.

Incumbents

  • Monarch: George III

Federal government

  • Parliament of Lower Canada: 9th
  • 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)
  • 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

References