1846 in Canada

Events from the year 1846 in Canada.

Incumbents

Parliament: [2nd Parliament of the Province of Canada|Parliament of the Province of Canada|2nd]

January 29 – Many persons in the Eastern Townships are arrested on charge of counterfeiting, being afterwards tried before Sir James Stuart and other Judges. Hon L. T. Drummond and Edward Short,, prosecute; H. B. Terrill, defends. All are acquitted.
April 18 – The commission on Rebellion Losses reports.
16 May – Under the leadership of British Prime Minister Robert Peel, the British Parliament repeals the Corn Laws, replacing the old Colonial mercantile trade system with Free Trade.
June 9 – Burning of St. John's, Newfoundland.
June 12 – Theatre burned at Quebec.
June 15 – Britain and United States settle the long-disputed boundary across the Columbia District or Oregon Country from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, by drawing the boundary across the mountains along the 49th Parallel to the Strait of Georgia, and leaving the Colony of Vancouver Island, established in 1843, intact.

Mines north of Lake Superior are explored.
The new canal, from Lachine, overcomes a fall of 42 ft., in 8½ miles, by two locks of 13 ft. and two of 8 ft. Equal fall of the whole river would wield 4,500,000 horse power.
Hon. John Young writes the Economist, favoring a bridge across the St. Lawrence.
The Great Famine begins, marking a change in the composition of Irish immigrating to Canada from mostly rich, well-connected, respectable Protestants to vastly poor, ill-equipped, poorly treated Catholics.
David Thompson begins compiling a book about his travels.
The first copper mine in Canada opens at Bruce Mines.

January 14 – Daniel Hunter McMillan, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
May 1 – Pierre-Amand Landry, lawyer, judge and politician
July 31 – Thomas George Roddick, surgeon, medical administrator and politician
August 12 – Graham Fraser (industrialist)
October 26 – Gilbert Anselme Girouard, politician
December 8 – Antoine Audet, politician
December 13 – John Howatt Bell, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island