1813 in Canada
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Events

  • January 22 - General Henry Proctor's 1,300 British and natives capture 495 U.S. troops, under General Winchester.
  • February 7 - Battle of Elizabethtown.
  • March 30 - Engagement at Lacolle.
  • April 27 - Battle of York
    Battle of York
    The Battle of York was a battle of the War of 1812 fought on 27 April 1813, at York, Upper Canada . An American force supported by a naval flotilla landed on the lake shore to the west, defeated the defending British force and captured the town and dockyard...

    : The Americans, under Henry Dearborn
    Henry Dearborn
    Henry Dearborn was an American physician, a statesman and a veteran of both the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Born to Simon Dearborn and Sarah Marston in North Hampton, New Hampshire, he spent much of his youth in Epping, where he attended public schools...

    , take York
    York, Ontario
    York is a dissolved municipality in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it is located northwest of Old Toronto, southwest of North York and east of Etobicoke, where it is bounded by the Humber River. Formerly a separate city, it was one of six municipalities that amalgamated in 1998 to form...

    , but the explosion of a magazine kills many of them. Americans burn York.
  • May 5 - Battle of Fort George
    Battle of Fort George
    The Battle of Fort George was a battle fought during the War of 1812, in which the Americans defeated a British force and captured the Fort George in Upper Canada...

    .
  • June 1 - The English frigate "Shannon" takes the "Chesapeake," in 15 minutes, off Boston
    Boston
    Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

    .
  • June 3 - The "Growler" and the "Eagle," which left Plattsburg, yesterday, are taken by the British gun-boats they pursued
  • June 6 - Capture of Generals Chandler and Winder and 120 U.S. troops, at Stoney Creek, by Sgt. Alexander Fraser. The Battle of Stoney Creek
    Battle of Stoney Creek
    The Battle of Stoney Creek was fought on 6 June 1813 during the War of 1812 near present day Stoney Creek, Ontario. British units made a night attack on an American encampment...

     is a Canadian victory.
  • June 23 or June 24 - Battle of Beaver Dams
    Battle of Beaver Dams
    The Battle of Beaver Dams took place on 24 June 1813, during the War of 1812. An American column marched from Fort George and attempted to surprise a British outpost at Beaver Dams, billeting themselves overnight in the village of Queenston, Ontario...

     is a Canadian victory, in part due to Laura Secord
    Laura Secord
    Laura Ingersoll Secord was a Canadian heroine of the War of 1812. She is known for warning British forces of an impending American attack that led to the British victory at the Battle of Beaver Dams.-Early life:...

    's famous 32 km. walk to warn Lieutenant James Fitzgibbon
    James FitzGibbon
    James FitzGibbon was a British soldier and hero of the War of 1812.Born to Garrett FitzGibbon and Mary Widenham in Glin, County Limerick, Ireland, he enlisted in the Knight of Glin's Yeomanry Corps at age 15...

    , who had already been warned by Indians.
  • July 30 - The British destroy Plattsburg's barracks, and fire at Burlington, but avoid the reply.
  • September 10 - The Battle of Put-in-Bay, Lake Erie
    Battle of Lake Erie
    The Battle of Lake Erie, sometimes called the Battle of Put-in-Bay, was fought on 10 September 1813, in Lake Erie off the coast of Ohio during the War of 1812. Nine vessels of the United States Navy defeated and captured six vessels of Great Britain's Royal Navy...

     is an American victory.
  • October 5 - The Battle of Moraviantown, also known as the Battle of the Thames
    Battle of the Thames
    The Battle of the Thames, also known as the Battle of Moraviantown, was a decisive American victory in the War of 1812. It took place on October 5, 1813, near present-day Chatham, Ontario in Upper Canada...

    , is an American victory. British supporter and Shawnee Indian Chief Tecumseh
    Tecumseh
    Tecumseh was a Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy which opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War and the War of 1812...

     is killed.
  • October 25 - The Battle of Chateauguay
    Battle of Chateauguay
    The Battle of the Chateauguay was a battle of the War of 1812. On 26 October 1813, a force consisting of about 1,630 French Canadian regulars and militia and Mohawk warriors under Charles de Salaberry repulsed an American force of about 4,000 attempting to invade Canada.The Chateauguay was one of...

    , with mostly French-Canadian soldiers is a Canadian victory over larger numbers of American troops.
  • October 26 - General Hampton, commanding 7,000 U.S. troops, ignorant of Col. Charles de Salaberry
    Charles de Salaberry
    Lieutenant Colonel Charles-Michel d'Irumberry de Salaberry was a French-Canadian of the seigneurial class who served as an officer of the British army in Lower Canada and won distinction for repelling the American advance on Montreal during the War of 1812.-Early years:Born at the manor house of...

    's experience, and expecting French desertions, divides his force. Part lose their way; the rest spend their strength in a maze of obstructions. De Salaberry gains the thanks of the commander-in-chief and of both Houses, and decoration by then Prince Regent
    Prince Regent
    A prince regent is a prince who rules a monarchy as regent instead of a monarch, e.g., due to the Sovereign's incapacity or absence ....

     George IV
    George IV of the United Kingdom
    George IV was the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and also of Hanover from the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten years later...

     .
  • November 11 - The Battle of Crysler's Farm
    Battle of Crysler's Farm
    The Battle of Crysler's Farm, also known as the Battle of Crysler's Field, was fought on 11 November 1813, during the Anglo-American War of 1812. A British and Canadian force won a victory over an American force which greatly outnumbered them...

    , with English-Canadian soldiers, is a Canadian victory over larger American troops.
  • December 19 - Col. Murray takes Fort Niagara.
  • Quebec City
    Quebec City
    Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...

     has a shipping year involving 198 vessels, of 46,514 tons.
  • Angus Bethune
    Angus Bethune (fur trader)
    Angus Bethune was the oldest son of the Reverend John Bethune. He had several distinguished brothers, Alexander Neil, who became Anglican bishop of Toronto; John, Anglican clergyman, dean of the diocese of Montreal and principal of McGill University; James Gray prominent Upper Canada businessman;...

     witnessed the North West Company
    North West Company
    The North West Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821. It competed with increasing success against the Hudson's Bay Company in what was to become Western Canada...

    's purchase of Fort Astoria
    Fort Astoria
    Fort Astoria was the Pacific Fur Company's primary fur trading post in the Northwest, and was the first American-owned settlement on the Pacific coast. After a short two-year term of US ownership, the British owned and operated it for 33 years. It was the first British port on the Pacific coast...

     from the Pacific Fur Company
    Pacific Fur Company
    The Pacific Fur Company was founded June 23, 1810, in New York City. Half of the stock of the company was held by the American Fur Company, owned exclusively by John Jacob Astor, and Astor provided all of the capital for the enterprise. The other half of the stock was ascribed to working partners...

    .

Births

  • March 5 - Casimir Gzowski
    Casimir Gzowski
    Sir Kazimierz Stanislaus Gzowski, KCMG , was an engineer who served as acting Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1896 to 1897....

    , engineer (d.1898
    1898 in Canada
    Events from the year 1898 in Canada.-Events:*March 1 - 1898 Ontario election: A. S. Hardy's Liberals win a majority*June 13 - Yukon becomes a distinct territory from the North-West Territories*July 29 - White Pass and Yukon Route opens...

    )
  • June 5 - François Bourassa
    François Bourassa
    François Bourassa was a Quebec farmer and political figure. He represented Saint-Jean in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal member from 1867 to 1896....

    , farmer and politician (d.1898
    1898 in Canada
    Events from the year 1898 in Canada.-Events:*March 1 - 1898 Ontario election: A. S. Hardy's Liberals win a majority*June 13 - Yukon becomes a distinct territory from the North-West Territories*July 29 - White Pass and Yukon Route opens...

    )
  • August 4 - George Luther Hathaway
    George Luther Hathaway
    George Luther Hathaway was a politician in New Brunswick, Canada. His surname also appears as Hatheway.He was born in Musquash, Sunbury County, New Brunswick, the son of Calvin Luther Hatheway and Sarah Harrison....

    , 3rd Premier of New Brunswick
    Premier of New Brunswick
    The Premier of New Brunswick is the first minister for the Canadian province of New Brunswick. They are the province's head of government and de facto chief executive....

     (d.1872
    1872 in Canada
    Events from the year 1872 in Canada.-Events:*March 14 - Henry Joseph Clarke becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Marc-Amable Girard*March 25 - The beginning of the Toronto Printers' Strike for a nine-hour day....

    )
  • August 7 - John Ostell
    John Ostell
    John Ostell architect, surveyor and manufacturer, was born in London, England and emigrated to Canada in 1834, where he apprenticed himself to a Montreal surveyor André Trudeau to learn French methods of surveying. In 1837 he married Eleonore Gauvin a member of a prominent French Catholic family...

    , architect, surveyor and manufacturer (d.1892
    1892 in Canada
    -Events:*June 29 - John Robson, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office*July 2 - Theodore Davie becomes Premier of British Columbia*July 8 - Two-thirds of St. Johns, Newfoundland, destroyed in a fire*November 24 - Sir John Abbott resigns as Prime Minister...

    )
  • September 30 - John Rae
    John Rae (explorer)
    John Rae was a Scottish doctor who explored Northern Canada, surveyed parts of the Northwest Passage and reported the fate of the Franklin Expedition....

    , doctor and explorer (d.1893
    1893 in Canada
    -Events:*May 27 - Algonquin Provincial Park is established as a wildlife sanctuary in Ontario*September 16 - Calgary incorporated as a city*October 27 - The National Council of Women meets for the first time...

    )

Full date unknown

  • James Austin, businessman (d.1897
    1897 in Canada
    - Events :* January 29 - The Victorian Order of Nurses is founded in Ottawa* February 2 - Clara Brett Martin becomes the first woman to practise law in Ontario* February 19 - World's first Women's Institute founded in Stoney Creek, Ontario...

    )

Deaths

  • February 5 - William Berczy
    William Berczy
    William Berczy was a German pioneer and painter....

    , painter, architect, author, and colonizer (b.1744
    1744 in Canada
    -Events:* France declares war on England * Treaty of Lancaster .* Having begun in Europe in 1740, The War of the Austrian Succession spreads to North America ....

    )
  • October 5 - Tecumseh
    Tecumseh
    Tecumseh was a Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy which opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War and the War of 1812...

     (b.c1768
    1768 in Canada
    -Events:* Guy Carleton succeeds James Murray as governor of Quebec.-Deaths:...

    )
  • November 26 - John Craigie
    John Craigie
    John Craigie was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Scotland, probably in 1757, and came to Quebec in 1781 as deputy commissary general for the British Army there. Craigie was named commissary general in 1784. The following year, he became private secretary to...

    , businessman and political figure (b.c1757
    1757 in Canada
    -Events:* Thursday March 17 to Tuesday March 22 - In four nights 1,500 French Canadians and Indians destroy the out-works of Fort William-Henry.* Saturday July 30 - Seven thousand men are collected to attack Fort William Henry....

    )
  • December 19 - James McGill
    James McGill
    James McGill was a Scottish-Canadian businessman, military commander and philanthropist known for being the founder of McGill University...

    , merchant, philanthropist (b.1744)
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