1839 in Canada

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Events from the year 1839 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

  • Monarch: Victoria

Federal government[]

  • Parliament of Upper Canada: 13th

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[]

  • February 15 – Chevalier DeLorimier and others who joined in the Rebellion are executed.
  • April 11 – Death of John Galt, novelist, one of the originators of the British American Land Company.
  • June 24 – Last meeting of the Committee of Trade, forerunner of the Board of Trade.
  • September 26 – Canadian rebels are transported to New South Wales.
  • October 19 – Hon C. Thompson, Governor of Upper and Lower Canada, arrives. It is determined that Upper and Lower Canada shall share revenue in the ratio of 2 to 3.

Full date unknown[]

  • Lord Durham's report recommends the establishment of responsible government and the union of Upper and Lower Canada to speed the assimilation of French-speaking Canadians.
  • Territorial disputes between lumbermen from Maine and New Brunswick lead to armed conflict in the Aroostook River valley (the Aroostook War).
  • First Horse Railway in Upper Canada.
  • Mount Allison University founded by Charles Frederick Allison in Sackville, New Brunswick.

Births[]

  • January 1 – Annie L. Jack, author
  • January 29 – Élie Saint-Hilaire, educator, farmer and politician (died 1888)
  • May 8 – Adolphe-Basile Routhier, judge, author and lyricist (died 1920)
  • May 31 – Louis-Alphonse Boyer, politician (died 1916)
  • October 8 – George Edwin King, jurist, politician and 2nd Premier of New Brunswick (died 1901)
  • September 17 – Antonin Nantel, priest, teacher, school administrator, and author (died 1929)
  • November 16 – Louis-Honoré Fréchette, poet, politician, playwright and short story writer (died 1908)

Full date unknown[]

  • Augustus F. Goodridge, politician and Premier of Newfoundland (died 1920)
  • James Colebrooke Patterson, politician, Minister and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (died 1929)

Deaths[]

  • September 18 – Jeanne-Charlotte Allamand, pioneer, educator and artist (b. 1760 in Switzerland)[1]

References[]

  1. ^ Halpenny, Francess G. (1988). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-8020-3452-6.
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