1817 in Canada

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

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

• 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