1817 in Canada

"See also:"
1816 in Canada,
other events of 1817,
1818 in Canada and the
list of 'years in Canada'.

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Events

* February 4 - Francois Page petitions for monopoly of navigation of Lower Canadian Rivers, by an invention of which he produces a model.
* February 18 - Mr. McCord reads a petition for the deepening of the St. Lawrence.
* February 28 - One Goudie and others petition for a monopoly of navigation of Lake Champlain, in Canada, as like U.S. monopolists injure Canadian Commerce, by trading into Canada.
* Famine in Newfoundland due to poor postwar economy.
* Nova Scotia population estimated at 78,345.
* David Thompson takes post as chief surveyor for International Boundary Commission.
* The Rush-Bagot Agreement limits the number of battleships on the Great Lakes to a total of eight.

Births

* John Chipman Wade, politician
* January 1 - Francis Godschall Johnson, politician
* January 29 - John Palliser, explorer and geographer
* February 17 - Donald Alexander Macdonald, politician
* November 23 - William Jack, astronomer

Deaths