1823 in Canada

Incumbents

• Monarch: George IV

  Federal government

• Parliament of Lower Canada: 11th
• Parliament of Upper Canada: 8th

  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

• May 10 – Louis-Joseph Papineau and John Neilson are in London to present a petition of 60,000 signatures against favouring Union of the colonies
• October 14 – At a meeting, in Montreal, Mr. James Stuart favors Union.

  Full date unknown

• Shanawdithit, the last known Beothuk is found
• Smiths Falls, Ontario is founded
• Ward Chipman replaces George Stracey Smyth as Governor of New Brunswick
• Peter Robinson organizes land settlements of Irish Catholics to Carelton and Lanark County, Ontario.

  Arts and literature

New Books

• A General Description of Nova Scotia, Thomas Chandler Haliburton his first work
• James Fenimore Cooper's first volume of his Leatherstocking series published in United States.

  Births

• February 24 – William Murdoch, poet
• March 30 – James Cox Aikins, politician, Minister and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
• April 29 – Hart Massey, businessman and philanthropist
• June 2 – Gédéon Ouimet, politician and 2nd Premier of Quebec
• June 13 – David Breakenridge Read, lawyer and 14th Mayor of Toronto
• June 17 – Henri Faraud, Roman Catholic bishop
• July 23 – Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Roman Catholic priest, missionary, author and Archbishop
• August 13 – Goldwin Smith, historian and journalist
• October 16 – Marc-Aurèle Plamondon, lawyer, journalist, publisher, and judge
• November 10 – Thomas Arkell, politician, farmer and grain merchant
• December 27 – Mackenzie Bowell, politician and 5th Prime Minister of Canada, Born in Rickinghall, England.

  Deaths