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Events from the year
1831 in Canada
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Events
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- 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.
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- February 1 ?
Francis Evans Cornish
, politician (died
1878
)
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- February 14 ?
Camille Lefebvre
(died
1895
)
[3]
- March 18 ?
David Mills
, politician, author, poet and jurist (died
1903
)
- April 17 ?
John Macoun
, naturalist (died
1920
)
- May 1 ?
Emily Stowe
, first female doctor to practice in Canada and women's rights and suffrage activist (died
1903
)
- May 17 ?
Robert Machray
, clergyman, missionary and first Primate of the
Church of England in Canada
(died
1904
)
- July 30 ?
Simon Hugh Holmes
, publisher, lawyer, politician and Premier of
Nova Scotia
(died
1919
)
- August 16 ?
John Jones Ross
, politician and
Premier of Quebec
(died
1901
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