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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.[2]
 - 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) [3]
 
Full date unknown
Deaths
References
- ↑ "King George IV". Official website of the British monarchy. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
 - ↑ "Anniversary of the Opening of the Erie Canal in 1825". GovInfo. Retrieved 2023-06-02.
 - ↑ "Biography – DE COSMOS, AMOR – Volume XII (1891-1900) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca. Retrieved 2023-06-02.
 - ↑ "Biography – MISTAHIMASKWA (Big Bear, Gros Ours) – Volume XI (1881-1890) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca. Retrieved 2023-06-02.
 
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