1841 in Canada

Events from the year 1841 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Victoria

Federal government

• Parliament: 1st (starting June 15)

Governors

• Governor General of the Province of Canada: Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham (until 16 September); vacant then
• 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: John Clitherow then Richard Downes Jackson
• Governor of Upper Canada: Charles Poulett Thomson

Premiers

• Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada —
• William Henry Draper, Canada West Premier
• Samuel Harrison, Canada East Premier

Events

• February 10 – The Union of Upper and Lower Canada establishes the Province of Canada.
• June 15 – The 1st Parliament of the Province of Canada meets at Kingston.
• October 2 – The Canada Gazette publishes its first issue.
• December 20 – The Kingston Common Council establishes a police force.
• The Dawn Settlement, in what is now Dresden, Ontario, is established to provide self-help for Blacks in agricultural communities.

Births

• January 15 – Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, Governor General of Canada (died 1908)
• March 9 – Robert Atkinson Davis, businessman, politician and 4th Premier of Manitoba (died 1903)
• April 15 – Joseph E. Seagram, distillery founder, politician, philanthropist and racehorse owner (died 1919)
• April 21 – Jennie Kidd Trout, physician, first woman in Canada legally to become a medical doctor and only woman in Canada licensed to practice medicine until 1880 (died 1921)
• May 8 – John Norquay, politician and 5th Premier of Manitoba (died 1889)
• August 3 – Juliana Horatio Ewing, poet and writer of children's novels set in Canada.(died 1885)
• August 10
• James David Edgar, politician (died 1899)
• Oronhyatekha, Mohawk physician, CEO of an international benefit society, native statesman, scholar, rights campaigner and international shooter (died 1907)

• September 13 – George Airey Kirkpatrick, politician (died 1899)
• September 18 – George William Ross, educator, politician and 5th Premier of Ontario (died 1914)
• November 20 – Wilfrid Laurier, politician and 7th Prime Minister of Canada (died 1919)
• December 23 – John Brown, politician, miller, mining consultant and prospector (died 1905)

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