1843 in Canada

Events from the year 1843 in Canada.

Incumbents

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.

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.

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

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