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1832 in Canada

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Events from the year 1832 in Canada.

Incumbents

  • Monarch: William IV{{cite web |date=15 January 2016 |title=William IV |url=https://www.royal.uk/william-iv-r-1830-1837 |access-date=18 April 2016 |website=Official web site of the British monarchy |archive-date=21 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921001850/https://www.royal.uk/william-iv-r-1830-1837 |url-status=live}}

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Events

  • January 1 – William Lyon Mackenzie readmitted into the Legislative Assembly after being expelled
  • February 25 – The first railway charter in Canada is issued for the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad.{{cite web |url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm |title=Significant Dates in Canadian Railway History |first=Colin |last=Churcher website |access-date=2011-08-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060829044454/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm |archive-date=2006-08-29

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  • March – Attempted assassination of William Lyon Mackenzie at Hamilton.
  • March 30 – Bank of Nova Scotia is founded
  • May 21 – Election riots at Montreal. Three supporters of Daniel Tracey of the Parti Patriote are shot dead by government troops. Colonel MacIntosh and Captain Temple are arrested for ordering the shooting. The next day, it is announced that Tracey is elected to the Legislative Assembly for Montreal West.
  • June – The immigrant ship The Carrick arrives in Quebec filled with Irish immigrants. A few of these immigrants are ill with cholera, which becomes an epidemic in Lower Canada and Upper Canada.http://www.cbc.ca/history/EPISCONTENTSE1EP7CH1PA5LE.html The Carrick
  • June 20 – Eighty-eight deaths from Asiatic cholera are reported at Montreal.
  • November – 1832 Newfoundland general election.
  • December – A meeting, at Toronto, proposes annexation of the District of Montreal to Upper Canada.

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  • 7,800 French-Canadians are killed by the cholera epidemic – 3,800 in Quebec and 4,000 in Montreal. Meetings of French Canadians attribute the cholera to British immigrants, 52 000 having arrived in that same year.
  • The City of Montreal is incorporated. Heretofore an out-port of Quebec, it becomes a port of entry.
  • William Lyon Mackenzie leaves for England with 25,000 names on the petition advocating more powers for elected representatives, with little result. He is expelled from the Assembly and re-elected while away.
  • The Rideau Canal is opened after six years of construction.

Arts and literature

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Historical documents

Extensive geographical description of "Indian territories" from Labrador to Pacific Ocean (Note: racial stereotypes)Joseph Bouchette, [https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc_lc_british-dominions_lande01594_v1-19904/page/27/mode/1up "Chapter II"] The British Dominions in North America; Vol. I (1832), pgs. 27-60. Accessed 22 August 2021

Prince Edward Island society described in terms of class and ethnic (English, Scottish, Irish, Acadian) stereotypesJoseph Bouchette, [https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc_lc_british-dominions_lande01594_v2-19905/page/176/mode/2up "Chapter XI"] The British Dominions in North America; Vol. II (1832), pgs. 176-8. Accessed 22 August 2021

Fur trading rivalry in Saguenay region makes trade of little value to any but Indigenous people, who "will soon be extinct"Joseph Bouchette, [https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc_lc_topographical-dic_lande01595-19906/page/n281/mode/1up "Saguenay, river"] A Topographical Dictionary of the Province of Lower Canada (1832), image 282. Access 22 August 2021

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