1831 in Canada

Events from the year 1831 in Canada.

Incumbents

A charter for a railway, from La Prairie, Quebec to St. John's, is granted; it will be the first railway in Canada.
Massive Patriote campaign to petition the king for reforms.
Male Jews were extended full political and religious rights.
Many African-Canadians were protesting at the time about voting rights, although these weren't granted to them until 7 years later.

February 1 – Francis Evans Cornish, politician
February 14 – Camille Lefebvre
March 18 – David Mills, politician, author, poet and jurist
April 17 – John Macoun, naturalist
May 1 – Emily Stowe, first female doctor to practice in Canada and women's rights and suffrage activist
May 17 – Robert Machray, clergyman, missionary and first Primate of the Church of England in Canada
July 30 – Simon Hugh Holmes, publisher, lawyer, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia
August 16 – John Jones Ross, politician and Premier of Quebec