Events from the year 1818 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 April 1 – An expedition sails for the North Pole. August 28 – The Governor (Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond) dies of rabies.
Full date unknown Halifax and St. John's are made free ports. 49th parallel becomes British North America/U.S. border from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains Dalhousie University is established."History & Tradition". Dalhousie University. Archived from the original on 4 June 2013. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
Births January 17 – Antoine-Aimé Dorion, politician and jurist (d. 1891) March 10 – John Ross, lawyer, politician, and businessman. Born in County Antrim, Ireland (d. 1871) March 19 – Élisabeth Bruyère, nun (d. 1876) March 25 – Edwin Randolph Oakes, politician (d.1889) May 8 – Samuel Leonard Tilley, Premier of New Brunswick (d. 1896) September – Hugh Cossart Baker, Sr., banker, businessman and mathematician (d.1859) September 4 – Louis-François Richer Laflèche, diocese of Trois-Rivières (d.1898) October 1 – David Christie, politician (d.1880) November 29 – George Brown, journalist, politician and one of the Fathers of the Confederation (d.1880)
Full date unknown Alexander Francis Macdonald, politician (d.1913)
Deaths January 1 - Richard Pattinson, politician (born 1773) August 3 - John Jones, Lower Canada Assemblyman (born ) November 25 – Jonathan Odell, poet (born 1737)
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