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===Governors=== |
===Governors=== |
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*[[Governor General of the Province of Canada]] — [[]] |
*[[Governor General of the Province of Canada]] — [[Edmund Walker Head]] |
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*[[Colonial Governor of Newfoundland]] — [[Charles Henry Darling]] |
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*[[Governor of New Brunswick]] — [[]] |
*[[Governor of New Brunswick]] — [[John Manners-Sutton]] |
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*[[Governor of Nova Scotia]] — [[]] |
*[[Governor of Nova Scotia]] — [[John Gaspard Le Marchant]] |
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*[[Governor of Prince Edward Island]] — [[]] |
*[[Governor of Prince Edward Island]] — [[Dominick Daly]] |
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===Premiers=== |
===Premiers=== |
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| Decades: | 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s |
| Years: | 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 |
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Events from the year 1848 in Canada.
Incumbents
- Monarch — Queen Victoria
Governors
- Governor General of the Province of Canada — Edmund Walker Head
- Colonial Governor of Newfoundland — Charles Henry Darling
- Governor of New Brunswick — John Manners-Sutton
- Governor of Nova Scotia — John Gaspard Le Marchant
- Governor of Prince Edward Island — Dominick Daly
Premiers
- Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada —
- [[]], Canada West Premier
- [[]], Canada East Premier
- [[]],
- Premier of Nova Scotia — [[]]
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.
- Newfoundland general election, 1848
- 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)
