1818 in Canada

Events from the year 1818 in Canada.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: George III

Federal government

 * Parliament of Lower Canada: 9th
 * Parliament of Upper Canada: 7th

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 (Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond) 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 (d. 1891)
 * March 10 – John Ross, lawyer, politician, and businessman. Born in County Antrim, Ireland (d. 1871)
 * March 19 – Élisabeth Bruyère, nun (d. 1876)
 * March 25 – Edwin Randolph Oakes, politician (d.1889)
 * May 8 – Samuel Leonard Tilley, Premier of New Brunswick (d. 1896)
 * September – Hugh Cossart Baker, Sr., banker, businessman and mathematician (d.1859)
 * September 4 – Louis-François Richer Laflèche, diocese of Trois-Rivières (d.1898)
 * October 1 – David Christie, politician (d.1880)
 * November 29 – George Brown, journalist, politician and one of the Fathers of the Confederation (d.1880)

Full date unknown

 * Alexander Francis Macdonald, politician (d.1913)