1848 in Canada

Incumbents

• Monarch — Victoria

  Federal government

• Parliament: 3rd

  Governors

• Governor General of the Province of Canada — Edmund Walker Head
• 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

  Premiers

• Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada —
• *William Henry Draper, Canada West Premier
• *Samuel Harrison, Canada East Premier
• Premier of Nova Scotia — James Boyle Uniacke

  Events

• January 2 – Maple sugar is made in St. Anselme.
• January 15 – Wellington and Commissioners streets in Montreal are flooded.
• January 27 – Ploughing about Bathurst and Beckwith.
• March 4 – The so-called Great Ministry of Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine begins.
• May 15 – MP's vote themselves 50 pounds each for 25 days.
• July 5 – Run on the Savings Bank, Montreal, followed by re-deposit.
• September 20 – Opening of the Jesuits' College, Montreal.

  full date unknown

• First telegraph lines in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
• 1848 Newfoundland general election
• Responsible government established in Nova Scotia and The Canadas.

  Births

• January 19 – John Fitzwilliam Stairs, entrepreneur and statesman
• February 4 – James Brien, politician and physician
• February 24 – Grant Allen, science writer, author and novelist
• March 7 – Isidore-Noël Belleau, politician and lawyer
• March 24 – Honoré Beaugrand, journalist, politician, author and folklorist
• April 14 – James Walker, jurist
• April 23 – George Clift King, politician and 2 Mayor of Calgary
• May 20 – Joseph-Aldric Ouimet, politician
• July 18 – Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan, newspaper publisher
• October 23 – Joseph Tassé, politician
• November 24 – William Stevens Fielding, journalist, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia
• December 21 – George Boyce, politician

  Deaths

• February 1 – John Neilson, publisher, printer, bookseller, politician, farmer, and militia officer