1818 in Canada
Events from the year 1818 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
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 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.
Births
- January 17 – Antoine-Aimé Dorion, politician and jurist
- March 10 – John Ross, lawyer, politician, and businessman. Born in County Antrim, Ireland
- March 19 – Élisabeth Bruyère, nun
- March 25 – Edwin Randolph Oakes, politician
- May 8 – Samuel Leonard Tilley, Premier of New Brunswick
- September – Hugh Cossart Baker, Sr., banker, businessman and mathematician
- September 4 – Louis-François Richer Laflèche, diocese of Trois-Rivières
- October 1 – David Christie, politician
- November 29 – George Brown, journalist, politician and one of the Fathers of the Confederation
Full date unknown
- Alexander Francis Macdonald, politician
Deaths
- January 1 - Richard Pattinson, politician
- August 3 - John Jones, Lower Canada Assemblyman
- November 25 – Jonathan Odell, poet