1827 in Canada

Events from the year 1827 in Canada.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: George IV

Federal government

 * Parliament of Lower Canada: 12th (until July 5), 13th (starting November 20)
 * Parliament of Upper Canada: 9th

Governors

 * Governor of the Canadas: Robert Milnes
 * Governor of New Brunswick: George Stracey Smyth
 * Governor of Nova Scotia: John Coape Sherbrooke
 * Civil Governor of Newfoundland: Thomas John Cochrane
 * Governor of Prince Edward Island: Charles Douglass Smith

Events

 * March 15 – The University of Toronto is chartered
 * First temperance society in Canada formed in Montreal
 * Elections overwhelmingly in favour of the Parti Patriote much to the annoyance of the British.
 * 87,000 people in Lower Canada sign a petition denouncing the political abuses of the Château Clique.

Births

 * January 3 – Letitia Youmans, temperance advocate (died 1896)
 * January 7 – Sandford Fleming, engineer and inventor (died 1915)
 * February 28 – Albert Lacombe, missionary (died 1916)
 * April 16 – Octave Crémazie, poet (died 1879)
 * August 22 – Ezra Butler Eddy, businessman
 * October 21 – Charles Laberge, lawyer, journalist and politician (died 1874)
 * November 17 – William Evan Price, businessman and politician (died 1880)
 * December 27 – Pierre-Alexis Tremblay, politician (died 1879)

Deaths

 * August 31 – Jean Boudreau, politician