1842 in Canada
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Events from the year 1842 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
- 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
- Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada â
- William Henry Draper, Canada West Premier
- Charles Richard Ogden, Canada East Premier
Events
- January 10 â Governor General of Canada Sir Charles Bagot arrives at Kingston, Ontario.
- January 12 â The Islander is founded Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
- August 9 â The WebsterâAshburton Treaty ends the Aroostook War, settling once and for all the MaineâNew Brunswick border dispute.
- October 16 â Queen's University is founded
- The first Railway in Nova Scotia is begun.
Full date unknown
- 1842 Newfoundland general election
- Cornish emigrants begin to arrive in the area of Bruce Mines[2]
Births
- January 1 â John Morison Gibson, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (died 1929)
- March 4 â Hector Berthelot, lawyer, journalist and publisher (died 1895)
- June 26 â Zoé Lafontaine, wife of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (died 1921)
- June 30 â William Smithe, politician and 6th Premier of British Columbia (died 1887)
- July 11 â Louis-Philippe Turcotte, historian (died 1878)
- August 14 â Malcolm Alexander MacLean, 1st Mayor of Vancouver (died 1895)
- August 15 â Judson Burpee Black, physician and politician (died 1924)
- September 9 â Silas Tertius Rand Bill, politician, merchant and shipowner (died 1890)
- December 15 â Neil McLeod, lawyer, judge, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1915)
- December 28 â Calixa Lavallée, musician and composer (died 1891)
Full date unknown
- Poundmaker, Cree chief (died 1886)
- Jean Baptiste Blanchet, politician (died 1904)
- Arthur Boyle, politician (died 1919)
- Thomas Scott, Orangemen (died 1870)