1840 in Canada

Events from the year 1840 in Canada.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Victoria

Federal government

 * Parliament of Lower Canada: 15th

Governors

 * Governor of the Canadas: Robert Milnes
 * Governor of New Brunswick: George Stracey Smyth
 * Governor of Nova Scotia: John Coape Sherbrooke
 * Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Richard Goodwin Keats
 * Governor of Prince Edward Island: Charles Douglass Smith

Events

 * May 6 — Postage stamps come into use.
 * June 10 — Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are shot at.
 * June 28 — Queen Victoria is crowned.
 * July 23 — Act of Union. The Queen sanctions the union of Upper and Lower Canada. The United Canada Act allows larger government to borrow more money.

Births

 * January 1 — John Christian Schultz, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (died 1896)
 * March 24 — Laurent-Olivier David, journalist, lawyer, and politician (died 1926)
 * September 26 — Louis-Olivier Taillon, politician and Premier of Quebec (died 1923)
 * October 15 — Honoré Mercier, lawyer, journalist, politician and Premier of Quebec (died 1894)
 * November 6 — James Fisher, politician (died 1927)
 * November 9 — Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, lawyer, politician and 5th Premier of Quebec (died 1898)

Full date unknown

 * Patrick J. Whelan, tailor and alleged Fenian sympathizer executed following the 1868 assassination of Canadian journalist and politician Thomas D'Arcy McGee (died 1869)

Deaths

 * February 21 — Andrew Stuart, lawyer, politician, office holder, and author (born 1785)
 * April 19 — Jean-Jacques Lartigue, bishop of Montreal (born 1777)