1825 in Canada

Events from the year 1825 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: George IV<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Federal government

• Parliament of Lower Canada: 12th (starting January 8)
• Parliament of Upper Canada: 9th (starting January 11)

Governors

• Governor of the Canadas: George Ramsay
• Governor of New Brunswick: Howard Douglas
• Governor of Nova Scotia: James Kempt
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Thomas John Cochrane
• Governor of Prince Edward Island: Charles Douglass Smith

Events

• January 2 – The Parliament House, in Toronto, is burned.
• June 27 – The Canada Company is founded
• September 7 – Soldiers of the 70th Regiment subdue a fire, which consumes over eighty buildings, in Montreal.
• September to October: The Great Miramichi Fire destroys at least 10 000 km² to 20,000 km² and killing at least 280 people.
• October 26 – US finishes Erie Canal from Buffalo to Hudson River and New York City.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• The Peter Robinson settlement brings 2,000 poor Irish families to Scott's Plains (now Peterborough, Ontario)

Births

• February 24 – Richard William Scott, politician and Minister (died 1913)
• March 22 – Jane Mackenzie, second wife of Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (died 1893)
• March 24 – Joseph-Octave Beaubien, physician and politician (died 1877)
• April 13 – D'Arcy McGee, journalist, politician and Father of Confederation, assassinated (died 1868)
• May 25 – William Hallett Ray, politician, (died 1909)
• May 29 – William Henry Pope, lawyer, politician, judge and a Father of Confederation (died 1879)
• July 29 – Thomas McGreevy, politician and contractor (died 1897)
• August 12 – Louis-Charles Boucher de Niverville, lawyer and politician (died 1869)
• August 20 – Amor De Cosmos, journalist, politician and 2nd Premier of British Columbia (died 1897) <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Full date unknown

• Big Bear, Cree leader (died 1888)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>