1829 in Canada

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Events from the year 1829 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: George IV^[1]

Federal government

• 13th Parliament of Lower Canada
• 10th Parliament of Upper Canada

Governors

• Governor-General of the Province of Canada: James Kempt
• Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick: Sir Howard Douglas
• Governor of Nova Scotia: Thomas Nickleson Jeffery
• Colonial Governor of Newfoundland: Thomas John Cochrane
• Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island: John Ready

Events

• January 4 – Sir John Colborne, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada founds Upper Canada College, as a feeder school to the newly formed University of Toronto and a home for the colony's upper class.
• November 30 – Construction of the First Welland Canal is completed (construction to begin again in 1831)^[2]

Births

• May 28 – A. B. Rogers, surveyor (died 1889)
• June 7 –
  Joseph Godéric Blanchet, politician (died 1890
  )
• July 10 – Louis-Adélard Senécal, businessman and politician (died 1887)^[3]
• August 1 – John James Fraser, lawyer, judge, politician and 4th Premier of New Brunswick (died 1896)
• December 5 – Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, politician, Minister, 4th Premier of Quebec and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (died 1908)^[4]

Deaths

• June 6 –
  Newfoundland (b. c1801
  )