1840 in Canada

Events from the year 1840 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Victoria

Federal government

• Parliament of Lower Canada: 15th

Governors

• Governor of the Canadas: Robert Milnes
• Governor of New Brunswick: George Stracey Smyth
• Governor of Nova Scotia: John Coape Sherbrooke
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Richard Goodwin Keats
• Governor of Prince Edward Island: Charles Douglass Smith

Events

• May 6 — Postage stamps come into use.
• June 10 — Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are shot at.
• June 28 — Queen Victoria is crowned.
• July 23 — Act of Union. The Queen sanctions the union of Upper and Lower Canada. The United Canada Act allows larger government to borrow more money.

Births

• January 1 — John Christian Schultz, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (died 1896)
• March 24 — Laurent-Olivier David, journalist, lawyer, and politician (died 1926)
• September 26 — Louis-Olivier Taillon, politician and Premier of Quebec (died 1923)

• October 15 — Honoré Mercier, lawyer, journalist, politician and Premier of Quebec (died 1894)
• November 6 — James Fisher, politician (died 1927)
• November 9 — Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, lawyer, politician and 5th Premier of Quebec (died 1898)

Full date unknown

• Patrick J. Whelan, tailor and alleged Fenian sympathizer executed following the 1868 assassination of Canadian journalist and politician Thomas D'Arcy McGee (died 1869)

Deaths

• February 21 — Andrew Stuart, lawyer, politician, office holder, and author (born 1785)
• April 19 — Jean-Jacques Lartigue, bishop of Montreal (born 1777)

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