- Source: 1843 in Canada
Events from the year 1843 in Canada.
Incumbents
Monarch: Victoria
= Federal government
=Parliament: 1st
= Governors
=Governor General of the Province of Canada: Charles Bagot (until 19 May); Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe (starting 30 May)
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
= Premiers
=Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada —
William Henry Draper, Canada West Premier
Samuel Harrison, Canada East Premier
Events
January 19 – Mount Allison University is founded.
September 1 – First Prime Minister of Canada Sir John A. Macdonald marries Isabella Clark
December 9 – Bishop's University is founded.
= Full date unknown
=Fort Victoria built by British to strengthen their claim to Vancouver Island.
David Thompson sends a set of refined maps to London.
Lord Metcalfe comes to Montreal.
The Cornwall and Chambly Canals are opened.
Survey of Boundary, between the U.S. and Canada, is begun.
Grace Marks is controversially convicted of murder after her trial on November 3 and 4, 1843. The crime and trial will form the basis for Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace in 1996.
Births
= January to June
=February 3 – William Cornelius Van Horne, pioneering railway executive (died 1915)
February 10 – Jean Blanchet, politician (died 1908)
March 16 – James Mitchell, politician and 7th Premier of New Brunswick (died 1897)
May 2 – Elijah McCoy, inventor and engineer (died 1929)
May 17 – Robert Beith, politician (died 1922)
June 1 – David Howard Harrison, farmer, physician, politician and 6th Premier of Manitoba (died 1905)
= July to December
=August 4 – Joseph-Guillaume Bossé, politician and lawyer (died 1908)
September 30 – Samuel Barton Burdett, politician, lawyer and lecturer (died 1892)
October 2 – James Whitney, politician and 6th Premier of Ontario (died 1914)
October 25 – Thomas Simpson Sproule, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (died 1917)
December 3 – William Dillon Otter, soldier and first Canadian-born Chief of the General Staff (died 1929)
December 6 – William Wilfred Sullivan, journalist, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1920)
Deaths
February 26 (baptised) – William Carson (born 1770)
September 16 – Ezekiel Hart, entrepreneur, politician, and first Jew to be elected to public office in the British Empire (born 1767)
October 6 – Sir Archibald Campbell, 1st Baronet, army officer and colonial administrator (born 1769)
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Olimpiade Kuno
- John Leech
- HMS Terror (1813)
- Katedral Kingston, Ontario
- Robert S. Duncanson
- Maria Elise Turner Lauder
- Mesin perontok
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Longgok es
- Katedral Québec
- 1843 in Canada
- Canada Corn Act 1843
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- 1843 in sports
- William Whyte
- Charles Mackintosh
- List of Canadian federal general elections
- Oregon Trail
- Alphonse (given name)
- USS Michigan (1843)
