1821 in Canada

Events from the year 1821 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

 * July 17 – Construction of the Lachine Canal in Montreal begins.
 * July – The Hudson's Bay Company merges with archrivals, the Montreal-based North West Company, creating unemployment for a substantial proportion of their Métis workforce.
 * No foreigners allowed in Russian-American waters, except at regular ports of call.

Births

 * February 21 – John Beverley Robinson, politician (d.1896)
 * March 12 – John Abbott, politician and 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (d.1893)
 * July 2 – Charles Tupper, politician, Premier of Nova Scotia and 6th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1915)
 * July 6 – Henri Bernier, politician, businessman and manufacturer (d.1893)
 * August 13 – Philip Carteret Hill, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1894)
 * August 18 – Maurice Laframboise, lawyer, judge and politician (d.1882)