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1842 in Canada

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Events from the year 1842 in Canada.

Incumbents

  • Monarch: Victoria

Federal government

  • Parliament: 1st

Governors

  • Governor General of the Province of Canada: Charles Bagot (starting 12 January)
  • Governor of New Brunswick: William MacBean George Colebrooke
  • Governor of Nova Scotia: Lucius Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland
  • Civil Governor of Newfoundland: John Harvey
  • Governor of Prince Edward Island: Henry Vere Huntley
  • Governor of Canada West: Richard Downes Jackson

Premiers

  • Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada —
    • William Henry Draper, Canada West Premier
    • Charles Richard Ogden, Canada East Premier

Events

  • January 10 – Governor General of Canada Sir Charles Bagot arrives at Kingston, Ontario.
  • January 12 – The Islander is founded Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
  • August 9 – The Webster–Ashburton Treaty ends the Aroostook War, settling once and for all the Maine–New Brunswick border dispute.
  • October 16 – Queen's University is founded
  • The first Railway in Nova Scotia is begun.

Full date unknown

Births

  • January 1 – John Morison Gibson, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (died 1929)
  • March 4 – Hector Berthelot, lawyer, journalist and publisher (died 1895)
  • June 26 – Zoé Lafontaine, wife of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (died 1921)
  • June 30 – William Smithe, politician and 6th Premier of British Columbia (died 1887)
  • July 11 – Louis-Philippe Turcotte, historian (died 1878)
  • August 14 – Malcolm Alexander MacLean, 1st Mayor of Vancouver (died 1895)
  • August 15 – Judson Burpee Black, physician and politician (died 1924)
  • September 9 – Silas Tertius Rand Bill, politician, merchant and shipowner (died 1890)
  • December 15 – Neil McLeod, lawyer, judge, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1915)
  • December 28 – Calixa Lavallée, musician and composer (died 1891)

Full date unknown

  • Poundmaker, Cree chief (died 1886)
  • Jean Baptiste Blanchet, politician (died 1904)
  • Arthur Boyle, politician (died 1919)
  • Thomas Scott, Orangemen (died 1870)

References

References

  1. "Queen Victoria {{!}} The Canadian Encyclopedia".
  2. (December 11, 2016). "Remember This? Bruce Mines was kind of a big deal".
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