1832 in Canada

Events

January 1 – William Lyon Mackenzie readmited to the Legislative Assembly after being expelled
March – Attempted assassination of William Lyon Mackenzie at Hamilton.
March 30 – Bank of Nova Scotia is founded
May 21 – Election riots at Montreal. Three persons being shot by the troops, Colonel Macintosh and Captain Temple are arrested.
June 20 – Eighty-eight deaths, from Asiatic cholera, at Montreal.
December – A meeting, at Toronto, proposes annexation of the District of Montreal to Upper Canada.
Deaths from Asiatic cholera, in Quebec, in five months, 3,300. Meetings of French Canadians attribute the cholera to British immigrants, 52,000 having arrived in the year.
The City of Montreal is incorporated. Heretofore an out-port of Quebec, it becomes a port of entry.
William Lyon Mackenzie leaves for England with 25,000 names on the petition, with little result.
William Lyon Mackenzie expelled and re-elected while away.