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Events from the year
1835 in Canada
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Governors
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Events
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- February 21 ? The Governor's speech, proroguing the Assembly's last session, is expunged from the Journals. The revolutionary speech reduces the Country Party in the House to less than two-thirds of the members. The Governor will not sign a warrant for sessional expenses, until past payments are ratified. He prorogues the House.
- June 1 ? Official opening of the
Kingston Penitentiary
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Full date unknown
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- Joseph Howe
, a
Halifax
printer and owner since 1828 of the weekly Novascotian, is arrested for libel but successfully argues his own case for freedom of the press. A local hero, he begins advocating the kind of
responsible government
that is only established in 1848.
- In the British Parliament, Mr. Stanley says there is no evidence to justify any one of the
92 Resolutions
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- Sir
Robert Peel
announces that a Commission will investigate Canadian affairs, and report; but that no change of Constitution will be immediately made. If complaints as to its working prove unfounded, the agitation will be suppressed. To those threatening insurrection, he says "Our desire is to do justice; beware, then, lest your threats turn to your own disadvantage.
Births
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- March 22 ?
Pierre Bachand
, politician (died
1878
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- June ?
Richard Alleyn
, lawyer, judge, educator and politician (died
1883
)
- June 27 ?
Daniel Lionel Hanington
, politician and 5th
Premier of New Brunswick
(died
1909
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- June 28 ?
Adelard-Joseph Boucher
, politician
- September 20 ?
Alfred Boyd
, politician and 1st
Premier of Manitoba
(died
1908
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- November 5 ?
Edgar Dewdney
, politician, Lieutenant Governor of
Northwest Territories
and Lieutenant Governor of
British Columbia
(died
1916
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- December 4 ?
Richard John Cartwright
, businessman, politician and Minister (died
1912
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Deaths
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"William IV"
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Official web site of the British monarchy
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Archived
from the original on 21 September 2017
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18 April
2016
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- ^
Kingston Historical Society (Ont.) (1952).
Historic Kingston
. Robarts - University of Toronto. Kingston, Ont. Historical Society. p. 26.
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