1825 in Canada

Events from the year 1825 in Canada.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: George IV

Federal government

 * Parliament of Lower Canada: 12th (starting January 8)
 * Parliament of Upper Canada: 9th (starting January 11)

Governors

 * Governor of the Canadas: George Ramsay
 * Governor of New Brunswick: Howard Douglas
 * Governor of Nova Scotia: James Kempt
 * Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Thomas John Cochrane
 * Governor of Prince Edward Island: Charles Douglass Smith

Events

 * January 2 – The Parliament House, in Toronto, is burned.
 * June 27 – The Canada Company is founded
 * September 7 – Soldiers of the 70th Regiment subdue a fire, which consumes over eighty buildings, in Montreal.
 * September to October: The Great Miramichi Fire destroys at least 10 000 km ² to 20,000 km ² and killing at least 280 people.
 * October 26 – US finishes Erie Canal from Buffalo to Hudson River and New York City.
 * The Peter Robinson settlement brings 2,000 poor Irish families to Scott's Plains (now Peterborough, Ontario)

Births

 * February 24 – Richard William Scott, politician and Minister (died 1913)
 * March 22 – Jane Mackenzie, second wife of Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (died 1893)
 * March 24 – Joseph-Octave Beaubien, physician and politician (died 1877)
 * April 13 – D'Arcy McGee, journalist, politician and Father of Confederation, assassinated (died 1868)
 * May 25 – William Hallett Ray, politician, (died 1909)
 * May 29 – William Henry Pope, lawyer, politician, judge and a Father of Confederation (died 1879)
 * July 29 – Thomas McGreevy, politician and contractor (died 1897)
 * August 12 – Louis-Charles Boucher de Niverville, lawyer and politician (died 1869)
 * August 20 – Amor De Cosmos, journalist, politician and 2nd Premier of British Columbia (died 1897)

Full date unknown

 * Big Bear, Cree leader (died 1888)