Events from the year 1831 in Canada.
Incumbents Monarch: William IV
Federal government Parliament of Lower Canada: 14th (starting January 21) Parliament of Upper Canada: 11th (starting January 7)
Governors Governor of the Canadas: James Kempt Governor of New Brunswick: Howard Douglas Governor of Nova Scotia: Thomas Nickleson Jeffery Civil Governor of Newfoundland: Thomas John Cochrane Governor of Prince Edward Island: John Ready
Events 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.
Births February 1 – Francis Evans Cornish, politician (died 1878) February 14 – Camille Lefebvre (died 1895) 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)
Deaths October 26 : Jacques Labrie, physician and politician
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