Events from the year 1832 in Canada.

Incumbents

Federal government

Parliament of Lower Canada The Parliament of Lower Canada was the legislature for Lower Canada. It was created when the old Province of Quebec was split into Lower Canada and Upper Canada in 1791. As in other Westminster-style legislatures, it consisted of three component ...

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Parliament of Upper Canada The Parliament of Upper Canada was the legislature for Upper Canada. It was created when the old Province of Quebec was split into Upper Canada and Lower Canada by the Constitutional Act of 1791. As in other Westminster-style legislatures, i ...

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Governors

* Governor of the Canadas: James Kempt * Governor of New Brunswick: Sir Archibald Campbell, 1st Baronet *

Governor of Nova Scotia The following is a list of the governors and lieutenant governors of Nova Scotia. Though the present day office of the lieutenant governor in Nova Scotia came into being only upon the province's entry into Canadian Confederation in 1867, the po ...

Thomas Nickleson Jeffery Thomas Nickleson Jeffery (1782 – October 21, 1847) was a colonial official and politician in Nova Scotia. He was born in Dorset, England. In 1798 he became an audit clerk in London and was, due to assistance from William Pitt the Younger, ap ...

* Civil Governor of Newfoundland: Thomas John Cochrane * Governor of Prince Edward Island: John Ready

Events

*January 1 – William Lyon Mackenzie readmitted into the Legislative Assembly after being expelled *February 25 – The first railway charter in Canada is issued for the

Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad The Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad (C&SL) was a historic railway in Lower Canada, the first Canadian public railway and one of the first railways built in British North America. Origin The C&SL was financed by Montreal entrepreneur and br ...

. *March – Attempted

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of William Lyon Mackenzie at

Hamilton Hamilton may refer to: People * Hamilton (name), a common British surname and occasional given name, usually of Scottish origin, including a list of persons with the surname ** The Duke of Hamilton, the premier peer of Scotland ** Lord Hamilt ...

. *March 30 – Bank of Nova Scotia is founded *May 21 – Election riots at Montreal. Three supporters of

Daniel Tracey Daniel Tracey (probably 1794 – July 18, 1832) born in Roscrea, Tipperary County, Ireland, was a doctor, journalist and Canadian politician. He arrived in the Province of Lower Canada (today Quebec) with his younger siblings in 1825. Th ...

of the '' Parti Patriote'' are shot dead by government troops. Colonel MacIntosh and Captain Temple are arrested for ordering the shooting. The next day, it is announced that Tracey is elected to the Legislative Assembly for Montreal West. *June – The immigrant ship ''The Carrick'' arrives in Quebec filled with Irish immigrants. A few of these immigrants are ill with cholera, which becomes an epidemic in Lower Canada and Upper Canada. *June 20 – Eighty-eight deaths from Asiatic

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are reported at Montreal. *November –

1832 Newfoundland general election The 1832 Newfoundland general election came after many years of agitation against the British Parliament. Newfoundland was the last British colony in North America to gain representative government. Results by party Member distribution The first ...

. *December – A meeting, at Toronto, proposes annexation of the District of Montreal to Upper Canada.

Full date unknown

* 7,800 French-Canadians are killed by the cholera epidemic – 3,800 in Quebec and 4,000 in Montreal. Meetings of French Canadians attribute the cholera to British immigrants, 52 000 having arrived in that same year. * The City of Montreal is incorporated. Heretofore an out-port of Quebec, it becomes a port of entry. * William Lyon Mackenzie leaves for England with 25,000 names on the petition advocating more powers for elected representatives, with little result. He is expelled from the Assembly and re-elected while away. * The

Rideau Canal The Rideau Canal, also known unofficially as the Rideau Waterway, connects Canada's capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, to Lake Ontario and the Saint Lawrence River at Kingston. It is 202 kilometres long. The name ''Rideau'', French for "curtain", ...

is opened after six years of construction.

Arts and literature

Births

*January 1 –

David Oppenheimer David Oppenheimer (January 1, 1834 – December 31, 1897) was a successful entrepreneur, the second mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, and a National Historic Person of Canada. Early life David Oppenheimer was born in Blieskastel, then in the ...

, entrepreneur and 2 Mayor of Vancouver (died

1897 Events January–March * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a puniti ...

) *January 9 –

Félix-Gabriel Marchand Félix-Gabriel Marchand (January 9, 1832 – September 25, 1900) was a journalist, author, notary and politician in Quebec, Canada. He was the 11th premier of Quebec from May 24, 1897, to September 25, 1900. Born in what is Saint-Jean-sur- ...

, journalist, author, notary, politician and

Premier of Quebec (died

1900 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), 2 ...

) *March 27 –

Benjamin Pâquet Benjamin Pâquet (or Paquet, pronounced ; March 27, 1832 – February 25, 1900) was a French-Canadian Roman Catholic priest and educator. He was an influential and controversial figure in 19th century Quebec religious politics, making numerous ene ...

, Roman Catholic priest and educationist (died

) *April 30 – Wilfrid Prévost, lawyer and politician (died

1898 Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, B ...

) *August 15 –

Lucius Richard O'Brien Lucius Richard O'Brien (or L. R. O'Brien as he was known) (15 August 1832 – 13 December 1899) was an influential 19th-century Canadian oil and watercolour landscape artist. Life and career Lucius O'Brien was born in Shanty Bay, Upper ...

, painter (died

1899 Events January 1899 * January 1 ** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. ** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City. * January 2 – **Bolivia sets up a c ...

)

Deaths

*July 18 –

, doctor, journalist and politician (born

1794 Events January–March * January 1 – The Stibo Group is founded by Niels Lund as a printing company in Aarhus (Denmark). * January 13 – The U.S. Congress enacts a law providing for, effective May 1, 1795, a United States ...

)

Historical documents

Extensive geographical description of "Indian territories" from Labrador to Pacific Ocean (Note: racial stereotypes) Prince Edward Island society described in terms of class and ethnic (English, Scottish, Irish, Acadian) stereotypes Fur trading rivalry in Saguenay region makes trade of little value to any but Indigenous people, who "will soon be extinct"Joseph Bouchette
"Saguenay, river"
''A Topographical Dictionary of the Province of Lower Canada'' (1832), image 282. Access 22 August 2021

References

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