1842 in Canada

Events from the year 1842 in Canada.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Victoria

Federal government

 * Parliament: 1st

Governors

 * Governor General of the Province of Canada: Charles Bagot (starting 12 January)
 * 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: Richard Downes Jackson

Premiers

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

Events

 * January 10 – Governor General of Canada Sir Charles Bagot arrives at Kingston, Ontario.
 * January 12 – The Islander is founded Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
 * August 9 – The Webster–Ashburton Treaty ends the Aroostook War, settling once and for all the Maine–New Brunswick border dispute.
 * October 16 – Queen's University is founded
 * The first Railway in Nova Scotia is begun.

Full date unknown

 * 1842 Newfoundland general election
 * Cornish emigrants begin to arrive in the area of Bruce Mines

Births

 * January 1 – John Morison Gibson, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (died 1929)
 * March 4 – Hector Berthelot, lawyer, journalist and publisher (died 1895)
 * June 26 – Zoé Lafontaine, wife of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (died 1921)
 * June 30 – William Smithe, politician and 6th Premier of British Columbia (died 1887)
 * July 11 – Louis-Philippe Turcotte, historian (died 1878)
 * August 14 – Malcolm Alexander MacLean, 1st Mayor of Vancouver (died 1895)
 * August 15 – Judson Burpee Black, physician and politician (died 1924)
 * September 9 – Silas Tertius Rand Bill, politician, merchant and shipowner (died 1890)
 * December 15 – Neil McLeod, lawyer, judge, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1915)
 * December 28 – Calixa Lavallée, musician and composer (died 1891)

Full date unknown

 * Pitikwahanapiwiyin, Cree chief (died 1886)
 * Jean Baptiste Blanchet, politician (died 1904)
 * Arthur Boyle, politician (died 1919)
 * Thomas Scott, Orangemen (died 1870)