1829 in Canada
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Events from the year 1829 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
Events
- January 4 â Sir John Colborne, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada founds Upper Canada College, as a feeder school to the newly formed University of Toronto and a home for the colony's upper class.
- November 30 â Construction of the First Welland Canal is completed (construction to begin again in 1831)[2]
Births
- May 28 â A. B. Rogers, surveyor (died 1889)
- June 7 â Joseph Godéric Blanchet, politician (died 1890)
- July 10 â Louis-Adélard Senécal, businessman and politician (died 1887)[3]
- August 1 â John James Fraser, lawyer, judge, politician and 4th Premier of New Brunswick (died 1896)
- December 5 â Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, politician, Minister, 4th Premier of Quebec and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (died 1908)[4]
Deaths
- June 6 â Shanawdithit, last recorded surviving member of the Beothuk people of Newfoundland (b. c1801)