1839 in Canada explained
Events from the year 1839 in Canada.
Incumbents
Victoria[1]
Federal government
13th
Governors
John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham then Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham
John Harvey
Colin Campbell
Henry Prescott
Charles Douglass Smith
George Arthur then Charles Poulett Thomson
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 19 – Opening of the Albion Mines Railway in Nova Scotia, an early Canadian steam-driven mining railway[2]
- September 26 – Canadian rebels are transported to New South Wales.
- October 19 – Charles Thomson, 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
Deaths
Notes and References
- Web site: Queen Victoria The Canadian Encyclopedia . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . 5 December 2022.
- Web site: Significant Dates in Canadian Railway History . Colin . Churcher website . 2011-08-02 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060829044454/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm . 2006-08-29.
- Book: Halpenny . Francess G. . Dictionary of Canadian Biography . 1988 . Springer Science & Business Media . 978-0-8020-3452-6 . 13 . en.