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Events from the year 1831 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
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.
- Many African-Canadians were protesting at the time about voting rights, although these weren't granted to them until 7 years later.
Births
- February 1 –
Francis Evans Cornish, politician (died
1878)
[2]
- February 14 –
Camille Lefebvre (died
1895)
[3]
- March 18 –
David Mills, politician, author, poet and jurist (died
1903)
- April 17 –
John Macoun, naturalist (died
1920)
- May 1 –
Emily Stowe, first female doctor to practice in Canada and women's rights and suffrage activist (died
1903)
- May 17 –
Robert Machray, clergyman, missionary and first Primate of the
Church of England in Canada (died
1904)
- July 30 –
Simon Hugh Holmes, publisher, lawyer, politician and Premier of
Nova Scotia (died
1919)
- August 16 –
John Jones Ross, politician and
Premier of Quebec (died
1901)
Deaths
References
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