1848 in Canada

Events from the year 1848 in Canada.

Incumbents

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.

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

February 1 – John Neilson, publisher, printer, bookseller, politician, farmer, and militia officer