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• Incumbents
• Federal government
• Governors
• Premiers
• Events
• Full date unknown
• Births
• Full date unknown 2
• Deaths
• References

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Events from the year 1847 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Victoria ^[1]

Events

• January 30 – Lord Elgin, Governor, arrives at Montreal.
• September 1 – Lord Elgin visits the Irish fever sheds at Windmill Point, Montreal, during the typhus epidemic of 1847.
• October 18 – Telegraph Line from Quebec to London, Canada West, complete.
• October 23 – 65 immigrants die in a week at Pointe St. Charles neighbourhood of Montreal.
• November 1 – 9,634 deaths of immigrants since 1 January
• November 19 – The railway from Montreal to Lachine is opened.

Births

• February 25 – John Watson, Canadian philosopher (born in Scotland) (died 1939)
• March 3 – Alexander Graham Bell, scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone (died 1922)
• March 12 – George Hope Bertram, politician (born in Scotland) (died 1933)
• April 18 - Oliver Aiken Howland, lawyer and politician, 31st Mayor of Toronto (died 1905)
• June 22 – Joseph Bolduc, politician, Speaker of the Senate (died 1924)
• July 31 – Samuel Bridgeland, politician (died 1903)
• August 3 – John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, Governor General of Canada (died 1934)
• September 3 – George Eulas Foster, politician and academic (died 1931)
• September 8 – Abraham Groves, physician
• October 9 – William Anderson Black, politician (died 1934)
• November 1 – Emma Albani, soprano (died 1930)
• November 3 – George Thomas Baird, politician, Senator for Victoria, New Brunswick (died 1917)
• November 11 – Adam Carr Bell, politician, Leader of the Opposition of Nova Scotia (died 1912)
• November 16 – Edmund James Flynn, politician and Premier of Quebec (died 1927)
• November 24 – Alexander Edmund Batson Davie, politician and 7th Premier of British Columbia (died 1889)
• December 10 – John M. Baillie, politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (died 1913)
• December 29 – Alexis-Xyste Bernard, Roman Catholic bishop (died 1923)

Deaths

• June 11 – John Franklin, naval officer, Arctic explorer, and author (born 1786)
• June 13 – Colin Campbell, army officer and colonial administrator (born 1776)

References