1842 in Canada

Incumbents

• Monarch: Victoria

  Federal government

• Parliament: 1st

  Governors

• Governor General of the Province of Canada: Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham
• 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: Richard Downes Jackson

  Premiers

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

  Events

• January 10 – Governor General of Canada Sir Charles Bagot arrives at Kingston, Ontario.
• January 12 – The Islander is founded Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
• August 9 – The Webster–Ashburton Treaty ends the Aroostook War, settling once and for all the Maine–New Brunswick border dispute.
• October 16 – Queen's University is founded
• The first Railway in Nova Scotia is begun.

  Full date unknown

• 1842 Newfoundland general election

  Births

• January 1 – John Morison Gibson, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
• March 4 – Hector Berthelot, lawyer, journalist and publisher
• June 26 – Zoé Lafontaine, wife of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada
• June 30 – William Smithe, politician and 6th Premier of British Columbia
• July 11 – Louis-Philippe Turcotte, historian
• August 14 – Malcolm Alexander MacLean, 1st Mayor of Vancouver
• August 15 – Judson Burpee Black, physician and politician
• September 9 – Silas Tertius Rand Bill, politician, merchant and shipowner
• December 15 – Neil McLeod, lawyer, judge, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island
• December 28 – Calixa Lavallée, musician and composer

  Full date unknown

• Pitikwahanapiwiyin, Cree chief
• Jean Baptiste Blanchet, politician
• Arthur Boyle, politician
• Thomas Scott, Orangemen

  Deaths