1843 in Canada

Events from the year 1843 in Canada.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Victoria

Federal government

 * Parliament: 1st

Governors

 * Governor General of the Province of Canada: Charles Bagot (until 19 May); Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe (starting 30 May)
 * 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

Premiers

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

Events

 * January 19 – Mount Allison University is founded.
 * September 1 – First Prime Minister of Canada Sir John A. Macdonald marries Isabella Clark
 * December 9 – Bishop's University is founded.

Full date unknown

 * 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 after her trial on November 3 and 4, 1843. The crime and trial will form the basis for Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace in 1996.

January to June

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

July to December

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

Deaths

 * February 26 (baptised) – William Carson (born 1770)
 * September 16 – Ezekiel Hart, entrepreneur, politician, and first Jew to be elected to public office in the British Empire (born 1767)
 * October 6 – Sir Archibald Campbell, 1st Baronet, army officer and colonial administrator (born 1769)