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Events from the year 1823 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
Events
- May 10 – Louis-Joseph Papineau and John Neilson are in London to present a petition of 60,000 signatures against favouring Union of the colonies
 - October 14 – At a meeting, in Montreal, Mr. (afterwards Sir) James Stuart favors Union.
 
Full date unknown
- Shanawdithit, the last known Beothuk is found
 - British expedition up the St. Clair River; site of Corunna surveyed as a potential capital for Upper Canada
 - Smiths Falls, Ontario is founded
 - Ward Chipman replaces George Stracey Smyth as Governor of New Brunswick
 - Peter Robinson organizes land settlements of Irish Catholics to Carelton and Lanark County, Ontario
 
Arts and literature
New Books
- A General Description of Nova Scotia, Thomas Chandler Haliburton his first work
 - James Fenimore Cooper's first volume of his Leatherstocking series published in United States.
 
Births
- February 24 – William Murdoch, poet (died 1887)
 - March 30 – James Cox Aikins, politician, Minister and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (died 1904)
 - April 29 – Hart Massey, businessman and philanthropist (died 1896)[2]
 - June 2 – Gédéon Ouimet, politician and 2nd Premier of Quebec (died 1905)
 

Mackenzie Bowell
- June 13 – David Breakenridge Read, lawyer and 14th Mayor of Toronto (died 1904)
 - June 17 – Henri Faraud, Roman Catholic bishop (died 1890)
 - July 23 – Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Roman Catholic priest, missionary, author and Archbishop (died 1894)
 - August 13 – Goldwin Smith, historian and journalist (died 1910)
 - October 16 – Marc-Aurèle Plamondon, lawyer, journalist, publisher, and judge (died 1900)
 - November 10 – Thomas Arkell, politician, farmer and grain merchant (died 1906)
 - December 27 – Mackenzie Bowell, politician and 5th Prime Minister of Canada, Born in Rickinghall, England. (died 1917)
 
Deaths
References
- ↑ "King George IV". Official website of the British monarchy. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
 - ↑ Martin, Joseph E. (2017). "Titans". Canada's History. 97 (5): 47–53. ISSN 1920-9894.
 
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