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Events from the year 1848 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
Premiers
- Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada —
- William Henry Draper, Canada West Premier
 - Samuel Harrison, Canada East Premier
 
 - Premier of Nova Scotia — James Boyle Uniacke
 
Events
- 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.
 
full date unknown
- First telegraph lines in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
 - 1848 Newfoundland general election
 - Responsible government established in Nova Scotia and The Canadas.
 
Births
- January 19 – John Fitzwilliam Stairs, entrepreneur and statesman (died 1904)
 - February 4 – James Brien, politician and physician (died 1907)
 - February 24 – Grant Allen, science writer, author and novelist (died 1899)
 - March 7 – Isidore-Noël Belleau, politician and lawyer (died 1936)
 - March 24 – Honoré Beaugrand, journalist, politician, author and folklorist (died 1906)
 - April 14 – James Walker, jurist
 - April 23 – George Clift King, politician and 2 Mayor of Calgary (died 1935)
 - May 20 – Joseph-Aldric Ouimet, politician (died 1916)
 - July 18 – Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan, newspaper publisher (died 1938)
 - October 23 – Joseph Tassé, politician (died 1895)
 - November 24 – William Stevens Fielding, journalist, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (died 1929)
 - December 21 – George Boyce, politician (died 1930)
 
Deaths
- February 1 – John Neilson, publisher, printer, bookseller, politician, farmer, and militia officer (born 1776)
 
References
- ↑ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
 
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