1840 in Canada

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Events from the year 1840 in Canada.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Births

• January 1 - John Christian Schultz, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (d.1896)
• February 19 - William LeSueur, historian
• June 25 - John Murray, detective
• September 26 - Louis-Olivier Taillon, politician and Premier of Quebec (d.1923)
• October 9 - Robert Drummond, labour leader

Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau

• October 15 - Honoré Mercier, lawyer, journalist, politician and Premier of Quebec (d.1894)
• November 6 - James Fisher, politician (d.1927)
• November 9 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, lawyer, politician and 5th Premier of Quebec (d.1898)
• November 14 - May Fleming, author

[edit] Deaths

• April 19 - Jean-Jacques Lartigue, bishop of Montreal (b.1777)