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1840 in Canada
Summary
Events from the year
1840 in Canada
.
←
1839
1838
1837
1840
in
Canada
→
1841
1842
1843
Decades:
1820s
1830s
1840s
1850s
1860s
See also:
History of Canada
Timeline of Canadian history
List of years in Canada
Incumbents
edit
Monarch
:
Victoria
[1]
Federal government
edit
Parliament of Lower Canada
:
15th
Governors
edit
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
edit
May 6 —
Postage stamps
come into use.
June 10 —
Queen Victoria
and
Prince Albert
are shot at.
June 28 — Queen Victoria is crowned.
July 23 —
Act of Union
. The Queen sanctions the union of
Upper
and
Lower Canada
. The United Canada Act allows larger government to borrow more money.
Births
edit
January 1 —
John Christian Schultz
, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of
Manitoba
(died
1896
)
March 24 —
Laurent-Olivier David
, journalist, lawyer, and politician (died
1926
)
September 26 —
Louis-Olivier Taillon
, politician and Premier of
Quebec
(died
1923
)
Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
October 15 —
Honoré Mercier
, lawyer, journalist, politician and
Premier of Quebec
(died
1894
)
November 6 —
James Fisher
, politician (died
1927
)
November 9 —
Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
, lawyer, politician and 5th
Premier of Quebec
(died
1898
)
Full date unknown
edit
Patrick J. Whelan
,
tailor
and alleged
Fenian
sympathizer executed following the 1868
assassination
of
Canadian
journalist
and
politician
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
(died
1869
)
Deaths
edit
February 21 —
Andrew Stuart
, lawyer, politician, office holder, and author (born
1785
)
April 19 —
Jean-Jacques Lartigue
, bishop of
Montreal
(born
1777
)
References
edit
^
"Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia".
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca
. Retrieved
5 December
2022
.