1809 in Canada

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Events from the year 1809 in Canada.

Incumbents edit

On August 17, the foundation of Nelson's Column, Montreal was laid.^[2]
November 3: John Molson's steamboat, PS Accommodation, starts for Quebec City. It is 85 feet (26 m) overall, has a 6 horsepower (4.5 kW) engine, and makes the distance in 36 hours, but stops at night and reaches Quebec on November 6. The Accommodation is the second steamboat in America, and probably the world.
From 1809 to 1811, Tecumseh, Shawnee chief, and the Prophet campaign to unite tribes of the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, and Southeast against the United States. His brother Tenskwatawa, the Shawnee Prophet, is defeated at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811.
Napoleon's continental blockade cuts British access to Scandinavian timber.
The North West Company builds Fort Gibraltar.

Modeste Demers

January 31 – Lemuel Allan Wilmot, lawyer, politician, judge, and 3rd Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (d.1878)
March 27 – Jean-Louis Beaudry, entrepreneur, politician and 11th Mayor of Montreal (d.1886)
May 15 – Pierre-Eustache Dostaler, politician (d.1884)
June 15 – François-Xavier Garneau, notary, civil servant, poet and historian (d.1866)
July 25 – Jonathan McCully, politician (d.1877)
October 11 – Modeste Demers, missionary (d.1871)
November 15 – Charles La Rocque, priest and third Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe (d.1875)
November 24 – Amos Wright, politician (d.1886)

^ "George III". Official website of the British monarchy. Royal Household. 31 December 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
^ Sandham, Alfred (1870). Ville-Marie, Or, Sketches of Montreal: Past and Present. G. Bishop. p. 342.
^ Brown, George W.; Halpenny, Francess G. (1966). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 700. ISBN 9780802033987.