1800 in Canada

Events from the year 1800 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: George III<ref name="rh">Template:Cite web</ref>

Federal government

• Parliament of Lower Canada: 2nd (until June 4)
• Parliament of Upper Canada: 2nd (until July 4)

Governors

• Governor of the Canadas: Robert Milnes
• Governor of New Brunswick: Thomas Carleton
• Governor of Nova Scotia: John Wentworth
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Charles Morice Pole
• Governor of St. John's Island: Edmund Fanning

Events

• Alexander Mackenzie, the explorer, joins XY Company.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• April – United Irish Uprising in Newfoundland.
• May 30 – Bar of Quebec is founded.
• August – Upper Canada expands westward and further into the interior, as the first settlers arrive at the upper Grand River.<ref>Template:Cite DCB</ref>
• October 1 – Spain cedes Louisiana back to France.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Births

• January 3 – Etienne-Michel Faillon, Catholic historian (d.1870)
• August 22 – Edward Barron Chandler, politician (d.1880)
• October 21 – René-Édouard Caron, 2nd Mayor of Quebec City and 2nd Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (d.1876)
• October 22 – James Ferrier, merchant, politician and 4th Mayor of Montreal (d.1888)
• November 21 – William Agar Adamson, Church of England clergyman and author (d.1868)

Deaths

• March 16 – Jean-Joseph Casot, last jesuit in Canada.