1829 in Canada

Incumbents

• Monarch: George IV

  Federal government

• Parliament of Lower Canada: 13th
• Parliament of Upper Canada: 10th

  Governors

• Governor of the Canadas: James Kempt
• Governor of New Brunswick: Howard Douglas
• Governor of Nova Scotia: Thomas Nickleson Jeffery
• Civil Governor of Newfoundland: Thomas John Cochrane
• Governor of Prince Edward Island: John Ready

  Events

• January 4 – Sir John Colbe, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada founds Upper Canada College, as a feeder school to the newly formed University of Toronto and a home for the colony's upper class.
• November 30 – construction of the first Welland Canal is completed.

  Births

• May 28 – A. B. Rogers, surveyor
• June 7 – Joseph Godéric Blanchet, politician
• July 10 – Louis-Adélard Senécal, businessman and politician
• August 1 – John James Fraser, lawyer, judge, politician and 4th Premier of New Brunswick
• December 5 – Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, politician, Minister, 4th Premier of Quebec and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia

  Deaths

• June 6 – Shanawdithit, last recorded surviving member of the Beothuk people of Newfoundland