1815 in Canada

Here are events and incumbents from 1815 in Canada.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: George III

Federal government

 * Parliament of Lower Canada: 8th (starting January 21)
 * Parliament of Upper Canada: 6th

Governors

 * Governor of the Canadas: George Prevost then Gordon Drummond
 * Governor of New Brunswick: Thomas Carleton
 * Governor of Nova Scotia: John Coape Sherbrooke
 * Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Richard Goodwin Keats
 * Governor of Prince Edward Island: Charles Douglass Smith
 * Governor of Upper Canada: Francis Gore

Events

 * The Great Migration from Europe begins.
 * January – Unaware of the Treaty of Ghent, General Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) wins the Battle of New Orleans.
 * February 9 – A bill to give the speaker a salary of 1,000 pounds is read.
 * February 18 – The United States ratifies treaties signed in December 1814.
 * March 25 – Governor George Prevost informs Parliament that then-prince regent George IV has ordered him to England to answer charges of the naval commander.
 * March – Parliament allocates 25,000 pounds for a canal from Montreal to Lachine.

Births

 * January 10 – John A. Macdonald, politician and 1st Prime Minister of Canada, Born in Glasgow, Scotland. (died 1891)
 * March 7: Thomas Wood, Member of the Legislative Council of Quebec for Bedford, died in office, 1898
 * June 19 – Cornelius Krieghoff, painter (died 1872)
 * September 18 – Joseph Duquet, notary in Lower Canada, executed in 1838
 * October 15 – Pierre Antoine Deblois, Senator for La Salle, Quebec, died in office, 1898