1823 in Canada

• 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==

• May 10 – Louis-Joseph Papineau and John Neilson are in London to present a petition of 60,000 signatures against favouring Union of the colonies • October 14 – At a meeting, in Montreal, Mr. (afterwards Sir) James Stuart favors Union. Full date unknown • Shanawdithit, the last known Beothuk is found • British expedition up the St. Clair River; site of Corunna surveyed as a potential capital for Upper Canada • Smiths Falls, Ontario is founded • Ward Chipman replaces George Stracey Smyth as Governor of New Brunswick • Peter Robinson organizes land settlements of Irish Catholics to Carelton and Lanark County, Ontario ==Arts and literature==

New books • A General Description of Nova Scotia, Thomas Chandler Haliburton his first work • James Fenimore Cooper's first volume of his Leatherstocking series published in United States. ==Births==

• February 24 – William Murdoch, poet (died 1887) • March 30 – James Cox Aikins, politician, Minister and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (died 1904) • April 29 – Hart Massey, businessman and philanthropist (died 1896) • June 2 – Gédéon Ouimet, politician and 2nd Premier of Quebec (died 1905) • June 13 – David Breakenridge Read, lawyer and 14th Mayor of Toronto (died 1904) • June 17 – Henri Faraud, Roman Catholic bishop (died 1890) • July 23 – Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Roman Catholic priest, missionary, author and Archbishop (died 1894) • August 13 – Goldwin Smith, historian and journalist (died 1910) • October 16 – Marc-Aurèle Plamondon, lawyer, journalist, publisher, and judge (died 1900) • November 10 – Thomas Arkell, politician, farmer and grain merchant (died 1906) • December 27 – Mackenzie Bowell, politician and 5th Prime Minister of Canada, Born in Rickinghall, England. (died 1917) == References ==