1825 in Canada
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Events from the year 1825 in Canada.
Incumbents
=Federal government=
- Parliament of Lower Canada: 12th (starting January 8)
- Parliament of Upper Canada: 9th (starting January 11)
=Governors=
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 km ² to 20,000 km ² and killing at least 280 people.
- October 26 – US finishes Erie Canal from Buffalo to Hudson River and New York City.{{Cite web |title=Anniversary of the Opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/features/erie-canal |access-date=2023-06-02 |website=GovInfo |language=en}}
- 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) {{Cite web |title=Biography – DE COSMOS, AMOR – Volume XII (1891-1900) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/de_cosmos_amor_12E.html |access-date=2023-06-02 |website=www.biographi.ca}}
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Deaths
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