1841 in Canada

Events from the year 1841 in Canada.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Victoria

Federal government

 * Parliament: 1st (starting June 15)

Governors

 * Governor General of the Province of Canada: Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham (until 16 September); vacant then
 * 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
 * Governor of Canada West: John Clitherow then Richard Downes Jackson
 * Governor of Upper Canada: Charles Poulett Thomson

Premiers

 * Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada —
 * William Henry Draper, Canada West Premier
 * Samuel Harrison, Canada East Premier

Events

 * February 10 – The Union of Upper and Lower Canada establishes the Province of Canada.
 * June 15 – The 1st Parliament of the Province of Canada meets at Kingston.
 * October 2 – The Canada Gazette publishes its first issue.
 * December 20 – The Kingston Common Council establishes a police force.
 * The Dawn Settlement, in what is now Dresden, Ontario, is established to provide self-help for Blacks in agricultural communities.

Births

 * January 15 – Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, Governor General of Canada (died 1908)
 * March 9 – Robert Atkinson Davis, businessman, politician and 4th Premier of Manitoba (died 1903)
 * April 15 – Joseph E. Seagram, distillery founder, politician, philanthropist and racehorse owner (died 1919)
 * April 21 – Jennie Kidd Trout, physician, first woman in Canada legally to become a medical doctor and only woman in Canada licensed to practice medicine until 1880 (died 1921)
 * May 8 – John Norquay, politician and 5th Premier of Manitoba (died 1889)
 * August 3 – Juliana Horatio Ewing, poet and writer of children's novels set in Canada.(died 1885)
 * August 10
 * James David Edgar, politician (died 1899)
 * Oronhyatekha, Mohawk physician, CEO of an international benefit society, native statesman, scholar, rights campaigner and international shooter (died 1907)
 * September 13 – George Airey Kirkpatrick, politician (died 1899)
 * September 18 – George William Ross, educator, politician and 5th Premier of Ontario (died 1914)
 * November 20 – Wilfrid Laurier, politician and 7th Prime Minister of Canada (died 1919)
 * December 23 – John Brown, politician, miller, mining consultant and prospector (died 1905)