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1848 in Canada

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Events from the year 1848 in Canada.

Incumbents

  • Monarch — Victoria

Federal government

  • Parliament: 3rd

Governors

  • Governor General of the Province of Canada — James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
  • 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

Premiers

  • Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada —
    • Henry Sherwood, Canada West Premier
    • Canada East Premiership vacant from December 8, 1847
  • Premier of Nova Scotia — James Boyle Uniacke

Events

  • January 2 – Maple sugar is made in St. Anselme.
  • January 15 – Wellington and Commissioners streets in Montreal are flooded.
  • January 27 – Ploughing about Bathurst and Beckwith.
  • March 4 – The so-called Great Ministry of Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine begins.
  • May 15 – MP's vote themselves 50 pounds each for 25 days.
  • July 5 – Run on the Savings Bank, Montreal, followed by re-deposit.
  • September 20 – Opening of the Jesuits' College, Montreal.

full date unknown

Births

  • January 19 – John Fitzwilliam Stairs, entrepreneur and statesman (died 1904)
  • February 4 – James Brien, politician and physician (died 1907)
  • February 24 – Grant Allen, science writer, author and novelist (died 1899)
  • March 7 – Isidore-Noël Belleau, politician and lawyer (died 1936)
  • March 24 – Honoré Beaugrand, journalist, politician, author and folklorist (died 1906)
  • April 14 – James Walker, jurist
  • April 23 – George Clift King, politician and 2 Mayor of Calgary (died 1935)
  • May 20 – Joseph-Aldric Ouimet, politician (died 1916)
  • July 18 – Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan, newspaper publisher (died 1938)
  • October 23 – Joseph Tassé, politician (died 1895)
  • November 24 – William Stevens Fielding, journalist, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (died 1929)
  • December 21 – George Boyce, politician (died 1930)

Deaths

  • February 1 – John Neilson, publisher, printer, bookseller, politician, farmer, and militia officer (born 1776)

References

References

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