• Source: 1842 in Canada

Events from the year 1842 in Canada.




Incumbents


Monarch: Victoria




= Federal government

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Parliament: 1st




= Governors

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Governor General of the Province of Canada: Charles Bagot (starting 12 January)
Governor of New Brunswick: William MacBean George Colebrooke
Governor of Nova Scotia: Lucius Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland
Civil Governor of Newfoundland: John Harvey
Governor of Prince Edward Island: Henry Vere Huntley
Governor of Canada West: Richard Downes Jackson




= Premiers

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Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada —
William Henry Draper, Canada West Premier
Samuel Harrison, Canada East Premier




Events


January 10 – Governor General of Canada Sir Charles Bagot arrives at Kingston, Ontario.
January 12 – The Islander is founded Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
August 9 – The Webster–Ashburton Treaty ends the Aroostook War, settling once and for all the Maine–New Brunswick border dispute.
October 16 – Queen's University is founded
The first Railway in Nova Scotia is begun.




= Full date unknown

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1842 Newfoundland general election
Cornish emigrants begin to arrive in the area of Bruce Mines




Births


January 1 – John Morison Gibson, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (died 1929)
March 4 – Hector Berthelot, lawyer, journalist and publisher (died 1895)
June 26 – Zoé Lafontaine, wife of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (died 1921)
June 30 – William Smithe, politician and 6th Premier of British Columbia (died 1887)
July 11 – Louis-Philippe Turcotte, historian (died 1878)
August 14 – Malcolm Alexander MacLean, 1st Mayor of Vancouver (died 1895)
August 15 – Judson Burpee Black, physician and politician (died 1924)
September 9 – Silas Tertius Rand Bill, politician, merchant and shipowner (died 1890)
December 15 – Neil McLeod, lawyer, judge, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1915)
December 28 – Calixa Lavallée, musician and composer (died 1891)




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Poundmaker, Cree chief (died 1886)
Jean Baptiste Blanchet, politician (died 1904)
Arthur Boyle, politician (died 1919)
Thomas Scott, Orangemen (died 1870)




Deaths






References

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