January 2 – The Parliament House, in Toronto, is burned.
June 27 – The Canada Company is founded
September 7 – Soldiers of the 70th Regiment subdue a fire, which consumes over eighty buildings, in Montreal.
September to October: The Great Miramichi Fire destroys at least 10 000 km ² to 20,000 km ² and killing at least 280 people.
October 26 – US finishes Erie Canal from Buffalo to Hudson River and New York City.^[2]
The Peter Robinson settlement brings 2,000 poor Irish families to Scott's Plains (now Peterborough, Ontario)

Births

February 24 – Richard William Scott, politician and Minister (died 1913)
March 22 – Jane Mackenzie, second wife of Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (died 1893)
March 24 – Joseph-Octave Beaubien, physician and politician (died 1877)
April 13 – D'Arcy McGee, journalist, politician and Father of Confederation, assassinated (died 1868)
May 25 – William Hallett Ray, politician, (died 1909)
May 29 – William Henry Pope, lawyer, politician, judge and a Father of Confederation (died 1879)
July 29 – Thomas McGreevy, politician and contractor (died 1897)
August 12 – Louis-Charles Boucher de Niverville, lawyer and politician (died 1869)
August 20 – Amor De Cosmos, journalist, politician and 2nd Premier of British Columbia (died 1897) ^[3]

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