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1840 in Canada

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1840 in Canada

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Events from the year 1840 in Canada.

Incumbents

  • Monarch: Victoria

Federal government

  • Parliament of Lower Canada: 15th

Governors

  • Governor of the Canadas: Robert Milnes
  • Governor of New Brunswick: George Stracey Smyth
  • Governor of Nova Scotia: John Coape Sherbrooke
  • Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Richard Goodwin Keats
  • Governor of Prince Edward Island: Charles Douglass Smith

Events

  • May 6 — Postage stamps come into use.
  • June 10 — Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are shot at.
  • June 28 — Queen Victoria is crowned.
  • July 23 — Act of Union. The Queen sanctions the union of Upper and Lower Canada. The United Canada Act allows larger government to borrow more money.

Births

  • January 1 — John Christian Schultz, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (died 1896)
  • March 24 — Laurent-Olivier David, journalist, lawyer, and politician (died 1926)
  • September 26 — Louis-Olivier Taillon, politician and Premier of Quebec (died 1923)
Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
  • October 15 — Honoré Mercier, lawyer, journalist, politician and Premier of Quebec (died 1894)
  • November 6 — James Fisher, politician (died 1927)
  • November 9 — Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, lawyer, politician and 5th Premier of Quebec (died 1898)

Full date unknown

  • Patrick J. Whelan, tailor and alleged Fenian sympathizer executed following the 1868 assassination of Canadian journalist and politician Thomas D'Arcy McGee (died 1869)

Deaths

  • February 21 — Andrew Stuart, lawyer, politician, office holder, and author (born 1785)
  • April 19 — Jean-Jacques Lartigue, bishop of Montreal (born 1777)

References

References

  1. "Queen Victoria {{!}} The Canadian Encyclopedia".
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