1831 in Canada

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Events from the year 1831 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

• Monarch: William IV

Federal government[]

• Parliament of Lower Canada: 14th (starting January 21)
• Parliament of Upper Canada: 11th (starting January 7)

Governors[]

• Governor of the Canadas: James Kempt
• Governor of New Brunswick: Howard Douglas
• Governor of Nova Scotia: Thomas Nickleson Jeffery
• Civil Governor of Newfoundland: Thomas John Cochrane
• Governor of Prince Edward Island: John Ready

Events[]

• A charter for a railway, from La Prairie, Quebec to St. John's, is granted; it will be the first railway in Canada.
• Massive Patriote campaign to petition the king for reforms.
• Male Jews were extended full political and religious rights.
• Many African-Canadians were protesting at the time about voting rights, although these weren't granted to them until 7 years later.

Births[]

• February 1 – Francis Evans Cornish, politician (died 1878)
• February 14 – Camille Lefebvre (died 1895)
• March 18 – David Mills, politician, author, poet and jurist (died 1903)
• April 17 – John Macoun, naturalist (died 1920)
• May 1 – Emily Stowe, first female doctor to practice in Canada and women's rights and suffrage activist (died 1903)
• May 17 – Robert Machray, clergyman, missionary and first Primate of the Church of England in Canada (died 1904)
• July 30 – Simon Hugh Holmes, publisher, lawyer, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (died 1919)
• August 16 – John Jones Ross, politician and Premier of Quebec (died 1901)

Deaths[]

• October 26 : Jacques Labrie, physician and politician

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