1843 in Canada

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Events from the year 1843 in Canada.

[edit] Events

• January 19 - Mount Allison University is founded.
• September 1 - First Prime Minister of Canada Sir John A. Macdonald marries Isabella Clark ^[1]
• December 9 - Bishop's University is founded.

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• Fort Victoria built by British to strengthen their claim to Vancouver Island.
• David Thompson sends a set of refined maps to London.
• Lord Metcalfe comes to Montreal.
• The Cornwall and Chambly Canals are opened.
• Survey of Boundary, between the U.S. and Canada, is begun.
• Grace Marks is controversially convicted of murder. The crime and trial will form the basis for Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace in 1996.

[edit] Births

[edit] January to June

• February 3 - William Cornelius Van Horne, pioneering railway executive (d.1915)
• February 10 - Jean Blanchet, politician (d.1908)
• March 16 - James Mitchell, politician and 7th Premier of New Brunswick (d.1897)
• May 2 - Elijah McCoy, inventor and engineer (d.1929)
• May 17 - Robert Beith, politician (d.1922)
• June 1 - David Howard Harrison, farmer, physician, politician and 6th Premier of Manitoba (d.1905)

[edit] July to December

• August 4 - Joseph-Guillaume Bossé, politician and lawyer (d.1908)
• September 30 - Samuel Barton Burdett, politician, lawyer and lecturer (d.1892)
• October 2 - James Whitney, politician and 6th Premier of Ontario (d.1914)
• October 25 - Thomas Simpson Sproule, politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (d.1917)
• December 3 - William Dillon Otter, soldier and first Canadian-born Chief of the General Staff (d.1929)
• December 6 - William Wilfred Sullivan, journalist, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1920)

[edit] Deaths

• September 16 - Ezekiel Hart, entrepreneur, politician, and first Jew to be elected to public office in the British Empire (b.1767)

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