1848 in Canada

Events from the year 1848 in Canada.

Incumbents

 * Monarch — Victoria

Federal government

 * Parliament: 3rd

Governors

 * Governor General of the Province of Canada — James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
 * 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
 * Premier of Nova Scotia — James Boyle Uniacke

Events

 * January 2 – Maple sugar is made in St. Anselme.
 * January 15 – Wellington and Commissioners streets in Montreal are flooded.
 * January 27 – Ploughing about Bathurst and Beckwith.
 * March 4 – The so-called Great Ministry of Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine begins.
 * May 15 – MP's vote themselves 50 pounds each for 25 days.
 * July 5 – Run on the Savings Bank, Montreal, followed by re-deposit.
 * September 20 – Opening of the Jesuits' College, Montreal.

full date unknown

 * First telegraph lines in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
 * 1848 Newfoundland general election
 * Responsible government established in Nova Scotia and The Canadas.

Births

 * January 19 – John Fitzwilliam Stairs, entrepreneur and statesman (died 1904)
 * February 4 – James Brien, politician and physician (died 1907)
 * February 24 – Grant Allen, science writer, author and novelist (died 1899)
 * March 7 – Isidore-Noël Belleau, politician and lawyer (died 1936)
 * March 24 – Honoré Beaugrand, journalist, politician, author and folklorist (died 1906)
 * April 14 – James Walker, jurist
 * April 23 – George Clift King, politician and 2 Mayor of Calgary (died 1935)
 * May 20 – Joseph-Aldric Ouimet, politician (died 1916)
 * July 18 – Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan, newspaper publisher (died 1938)
 * October 23 – Joseph Tassé, politician (died 1895)
 * November 24 – William Stevens Fielding, journalist, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (died 1929)
 * December 21 – George Boyce, politician (died 1930)

Deaths

 * February 1 – John Neilson, publisher, printer, bookseller, politician, farmer, and militia officer (born 1776)