1824 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

• The first Welland Canal is begun, partly in response to American initiatives in the Erie Canal.
• Russians begin exploration of mainland that leads to discovery of Nushagak, Kuskokwim, Yukon, and Koyukuk Rivers.
• William Lyon Mackenzie establishes the Colonial Advocate.
• First Lachine Canal near Montreal is completed.

  Births

• January 4 – Peter Mitchell, politician, Minister and a Father of Confederation
• March 14 – John Robson, journalist, politician and Premier of British Columbia
• August 4 – Antoine Gérin-Lajoie, poet and novelist
• November 18 – John Bolton, businessman and politician

  Full date unknown

• Philip Francis Little, 1st Premier of Newfoundland of the colonial
• Edward Whelan, journalist and politician

  Deaths

• January 17 – William Osgoode, judge
• February 9 – Ward Chipman, lawyer, public servant, politician
• April 4 – Alexander Henry the elder, fur trader, merchant, militia officer, jp, and author
• August 3 – Joseph Barss, privateer