1831 in Canada
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See also: 1830 in Canada, other events of 1831, 1832 in Canada.
Events from the year 1831 in Canada.
[edit] Events
- A charter for a railway, from La Prairie, Quebec to St. John's, is granted; it will be the first railway in Canada.
- Massive Patriote campaign to petition the king for reforms.
- Male Jews were extended full political and religious rights.
[edit] Births
- February 1 - Francis Evans Cornish, politician (d.1878)
- February 14 - Camille Lefebvre (d.1895)
- March 18 - David Mills, politician, author, poet and jurist (d.1903)
- April 17 - John Macoun, naturalist (d.1920)
- May 1 - Emily Stowe, first female doctor to practice in Canada and women's rights and suffrage activist (d.1903)
- May 17 - Robert Machray, clergyman, missionary and first Primate of the Church of England in Canada (d.1904)
- July 30 - Simon Hugh Holmes, publisher, lawyer, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1919)
- August 16 - John Jones Ross, politician and Premier of Quebec (d.1901)
[edit] Deaths
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