1827 in Canada
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1826 in Canada
1826 in Canada
See also:1825 in Canada,other events of 1826,1827 in Canada.----Events from the year 1826 in Canada.-Events:*June 8 - A mob of the ruling party, the Family Compact, destroy the Colonial Advocate's press at York...

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other events of 1827,
1828 in Canada
1828 in Canada
See also:1827 in Canada,other events of 1828,1829 in Canada.----Events from the year 1828 in Canada.-Events:*William Lyon Mackenzie elected to the Assembly with the first Reform majority.*Settlement begins in Stratford, Ontario...

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Events from the year 1827 in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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Events

  • March 15 - The University of Toronto
    University of Toronto
    The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

     is chartered
  • First temperance
    Temperance movement
    A temperance movement is a social movement urging reduced use of alcoholic beverages. Temperance movements may criticize excessive alcohol use, promote complete abstinence , or pressure the government to enact anti-alcohol legislation or complete prohibition of alcohol.-Temperance movement by...

     society in Canada formed in Montreal
    Montreal
    Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

  • 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
    Château Clique
    The Clique du Château or Château Clique was a group of wealthy families in Lower Canada in the early 19th century. They were the Lower Canadian equivalent of the Family Compact in Upper Canada...

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Births

  • January 3 - Letitia Youmans
    Letitia Youmans
    Letitia Youmans, née Creighton, was a Canadian school teacher who became an activist for the temperance movement. Youmans founded and served as the first president of the Ontario chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union....

    , temperance advocate
  • January 7 - Sandford Fleming
    Sandford Fleming
    Sir Sandford Fleming, was a Scottish-born Canadian engineer and inventor, proposed worldwide standard time zones, designed Canada's first postage stamp, a huge body of surveying and map making, engineering much of the Intercolonial Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway, and was a founding...

    , engineer and inventor (d.1915
    1915 in Canada
    -Events:*January 4 - WWI: Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry becomes the first Canadian troops sent to the front lines*January 15 - The Canadian Northern Railway line to Vancouver, British Columbia, is completed...

    )
  • February 28 - Albert Lacombe
    Albert Lacombe
    Albert Lacombe , commonly known in Alberta simply as Father Lacombe, was a French-Canadian Roman Catholic missionary who lived among and evangelized the Cree and Blackfoot First Nations of western Canada...

    , missionary (d.1916
    1916 in Canada
    -January to June:*January 28 - Women are given the right to vote in Manitoba, after protests by people such as Nellie McClung*February 3 - The Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa burns down*February 10 - An anti-German riot hits Calgary...

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  • April 16 - Octave Crémazie
    Octave Crémazie
    Octave Crémazie was a French Canadian poet. He has been called "the father of French Canadian poetry" for his patriotic verse, often rhetorical in style, celebrating such subjects as Montcalm's defence of Fort Carillon in "Le drapeau de Carillon"...

    , poet (d.1879
    1879 in Canada
    Events from the year 1879 in Canada.-Events:*February 4 - Prince Edward Island election: William Wilfred Sullivan's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority*March 12 - Sir John A...

    )
  • August 22 - Ezra Eddy, businessman
  • October 21 - Charles Laberge
    Charles Laberge
    Charles Laberge was a Quebec lawyer, journalist and political figure.He was born in Montreal, Lower Canada in 1827 and studied at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe. During his time in school, he helped found the Institut canadien de Montréal. He articled in law with René-Auguste-Richard Hubert at...

    , lawyer, journalist and politician (d.1874
    1874 in Canada
    -Events:*January 22 - Federal election: Alexander Mackenzie's Liberals win a majority, defeating J. A. Macdonald's Liberal-Conservatives*February 11 - George Walkem becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Amor De Cosmos...

    )
  • November 17 - William Evan Price
    William Evan Price
    William Evan Price was a Quebec businessman and political figure. He was a Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons representing Chicoutimi—Saguenay from 1872 to 1874.-Biography:...

    , businessman and politician (d.1880
    1880 in Canada
    -Events:*February 4 - Five members of the Donnelly family are killed near Lucan, Ontario*February 14 - The wife of the governor general, The Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne, is seriously injured when the viceregal sleigh overturns on a Rudolph Ottawa street....

    )
  • December 27 - Pierre-Alexis Tremblay
    Pierre-Alexis Tremblay
    Pierre-Alexis Tremblay was a surveyor and Quebec political figure. He was a Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1875 and 1878 to 1879....

    , politician (d.1879
    1879 in Canada
    Events from the year 1879 in Canada.-Events:*February 4 - Prince Edward Island election: William Wilfred Sullivan's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority*March 12 - Sir John A...

    )
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