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Events from the year 1839 in Canada .
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
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
[2]
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
Deaths
References
1839 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories