Английская Википедия:1839 in Canada

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Events from the year 1839 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Victoria

Federal government

• Parliament of Upper Canada: 13th

Governors

• Governor of the Canadas: John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham then Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham
• Governor of New Brunswick: John Harvey
• Governor of Nova Scotia: Colin Campbell
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Henry Prescott
• Governor of Prince Edward Island: Charles Douglass Smith
• Governor of Upper Canada: George Arthur then Charles Poulett Thomson

Events

• February 15 – Chevalier DeLorimier and others who joined in the Rebellion are executed.
• April 11 – Death of John Galt, novelist, one of the originators of the British American Land Company.
• June 24 – Last meeting of the Committee of Trade, forerunner of the Board of Trade.
• September 19 – Opening of the Albion Mines Railway in Nova Scotia, an early Canadian steam-driven mining railway
• September 26 – Canadian rebels are transported to New South Wales.
• October 19 – Charles Thomson, Governor of Upper and Lower Canada, arrives. It is determined that Upper and Lower Canada shall share revenue in the ratio of 2 to 3.

Full date unknown

• Lord Durham's report recommends the establishment of responsible government and the union of Upper and Lower Canada to speed the assimilation of French-speaking Canadians.
• Territorial disputes between lumbermen from Maine and New Brunswick lead to armed conflict in the Aroostook River valley (the Aroostook War).
• First Horse Railway in Upper Canada.
• Mount Allison University founded by Charles Frederick Allison in Sackville, New Brunswick.

Births

• January 1 – Annie L. Jack, author
• January 29 – Élie Saint-Hilaire, educator, farmer and politician (died 1888)
• May 8 – Adolphe-Basile Routhier, judge, author and lyricist (died 1920)
• May 31 – Louis-Alphonse Boyer, politician (died 1916)
• October 8 – George Edwin King, jurist, politician and 2nd Premier of New Brunswick (died 1901)
• September 17 – Antonin Nantel, priest, teacher, school administrator, and author (died 1929)
• November 16 – Louis-Honoré Fréchette, poet, politician, playwright and short story writer (died 1908)

Full date unknown

• Augustus F. Goodridge, politician and Premier of Newfoundland (died 1920)
• James Colebrooke Patterson, politician, Minister and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (died 1929)

Deaths

• September 18 – Jeanne-Charlotte Allamand, pioneer, educator and artist (b. 1760 in Switzerland)