1835 in Canada

Incumbents

• Monarch: William IV

  Federal government

• Parliament of Lower Canada: 15th
• Parliament of Upper Canada: 12th

  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

• February 21 – The Governor's speech, proroguing the Assembly's last session, is expunged from the Journals. The revolutionary speech reduces the Country Party in the House to less than two-thirds of the members. The Governor will not sign a warrant for sessional expenses, until past payments are ratified. He prorogues the House.
• June 1 – Official opening of the Kingston Penitentiary.

  Full date unknown

• Joseph Howe, a Halifax printer and owner since 1828 of the weekly Novascotian, is arrested for libel but successfully argues his own case for freedom of the press. A local hero, he begins advocating the kind of responsible government that is only established in 1848.
• In the British Parliament, Mr. Stanley says there is no evidence to justify any one of the 92 Resolutions.
• Sir Robert Peel announces that a Commission will investigate Canadian affairs, and report; but that no change of Constitution will be immediately made. If complaints as to its working prove unfounded, the agitation will be suppressed. To those threatening insurrection, he says "Our desire is to do justice; beware, then, lest your threats turn to your own disadvantage.

  Births

• March 22 – Pierre Bachand, politician
• June – Richard Alleyn, lawyer, judge, educator and politician
• June 27 – Daniel Lionel Hanington, politician and 5th Premier of New Brunswick
• June 28 – Adélard-Joseph Boucher, politician
• September 20 – Alfred Boyd, politician and 1st Premier of Manitoba
• November 5 – Edgar Dewdney, politician, Lieutenant Governor of Northwest Territories and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
• December 4 – Richard John Cartwright, businessman, politician and Minister

  Deaths