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Events
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to give the timeline perspective.
This timeline is not all inclusive.
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| DATES |
EVENTS |
| 1800 |
Births
1800:
1800 -
Born Marie Louise Arseneault (1800-1884) medicine woman & light
keeper
1800 -
Born Elizabeth Jane "Eliza" Barnes, (1800?-1893) 'Granny Barnes'
was a well known clairvoyant
April 22, 1800 - Born Henrietta Feller (1800-1868) founder of
the protestant mission at Grande-Ligne, Quebec |
| 1801 |
Deaths 1801:
August 17, 1801 - Died by hanging Mary London
(1773-1801) convicted murderer |
| 1802 |
1802 - The
first Public School Act is passed in New Brunswick
Births
1802:
January 9, 1802 - Born Catherine Parr Traill (1802-1899) Pioneer and author in the province of Canada |
| 1803 |
1803 - Mary Fubbester,
disguised as a man, works as a clerk for the Hudson Bay
Company in Rupert's Land. She was forced to quit in 1807 when
she gave birth to a child in 1807 Source : Cool
Chronology
(accessed July 2005)
Births 1803:
1803 -
Grezelda Elizabeth Cottnam Tonge (1803-1825) Maritime
poet
September 25, 1803 - Born Mary
'Polly' Scovil/Scovill (1803-1898) pioneer, teacher, farmers wife, & mother
Deaths 1803:
1803 - Died Helen 'Nelly' MacDonald of Glenaladale
(1750?-1803?) pioneer of Prince Edward Island |
| 1804 |
Births 1804:
1804 - Born "Ruthie" Lucie Blackburn
(1804-1895) escaped slave & person of National Historic Significance
1804 - Born Hortense Globensky Prevost (1804-1873) heroine
June 1804 - Born Elizabeth 'Eliza' Field Jones (1804-1890)
painter & author writing of the Ojibwa peoples
June 24, 1804 - Born Ann Langdon (1804-1893) pioneer in Upper
Canada
Deaths
1804:
August 17, 1804 - Died Barbara Heck (1734-1804) founder of
early Methodist followings in New York City & Upper Canada (Ontario) |
| 1805 |
Births 1805:
March 10, 1805 - Born
Susanna Maxwell (1805-1923) Black pioneer of Toronto
March 26, 1805 - Born Marie Anne Marcelle
Mallett/Maille/Maillet (1805-1871) |
1806
|
1806 - Marie-Anne Lagemodiére (1780-1875.) traveling with her fur trading husband,
is one of the 1st white
women to visit such outposts as Red River
and Fort Edmonton
1806 -
The Ursuline Sisters convent is destroyed by fire.
Mother Marie Anne
de Saint Olivier remains on site for two years to gain support
to reconstruct the convent
1806 - The news paper the Fredericton Telegraph is
published in New Brunswick
Births 1806:
June 25, 1806 - Born Mary Love (1806-1866)
1st
Canadian born artist to have works lithographed (drawn to stone for
printing and reproduction)
October 16, 1806 - Born Marie Fisbach (1806-1885) Sr. Marie
de Sacré-Coeur, founder of Sisters of the Good Shepherd
Deaths 1806:
December 31, 1806 - Died Deborah
How Cottnam (1727?-1806) poet & teacher in Maritimes |
| 1807 |
1807
- Slavery
is abolished in British colonies
1807 - Marie-Anne Lagemodiére (1780-1875) gives birth to a daughter, Reine, the 1st
legitimate white child born in the Canadian west
Births 1807:
July 3, 1807-
Born Eliza Ann Chipman (1807-1853) Diarist & teacher |
| 1808 |
July 2, 1808 - Nor West explorer Simon Fraser reaches the mouth of
what is now called the Fraser River.
Births
1808:
1808 -
Born Rebecca Gibbs (1808-1873) considered first Black female
Canadian poet
1808 -
Born Ann Martyn (1808- ) 1st Canadian
woman photographer
Deaths 1808:
March 29, 1808 - Died Frederika Charlotte Louise Riedesel
(1746-1808) put up 1st Christmas tree in Canada
December 31, 1808 -
Died Deborah How Cottnam (1728-1808) poet |
| 1809 |
1809 -
Quebec women with property have the right to vote from 1809-1949
when the word "male" is added to the Quebec franchise act Source:
History of Women's Rights, Nellie McClung Foundation online
accessed April 2013 |
| 1810 |
1810 -
New Brunswick passes An Act for making
further provisions to prevent the destroying and murdering of
Bastard Children, and for the further prevention of the malicious
using of means to procure the miscarriage of women
Births 1810:
1810 - Born
Nancy Lester (1810-1892) Black pioneer in British Columbia |
| 1811 |
Births 1811:
1811 - Born Marianne Creedon, Sister Mary Frances of the
Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy, Ireland (1811-1855)
1811 -
Born Isabella Macdonald (1811-1857) wife of Sir J. A. Macdonald
(1815-1891), 1st Prime
minister of Canada.
1811 -
Born Ann Harvey (1811-1860) heroine who risked her life to save
people from floundering ships off Newfoundland
January 20, 1811 - Born Isabel Graham Findlayson (1811-1890)
diarist
October 6, 1811 - Born Mother Marie-Rose (Elalie Durocher)
(1811-1849) founder of Sisters of the Holy Name of Jesus & Mary.
Beatified 1982 |
| 1812 |
June
18, 1812 - The United States declares war one Britain
beginning the War of 1812
Births 1812:
1812 - Born Margaret Arnold McEwan (1812-1883) heroine of the
cholera epidemic in Sandwich, Ontario 1854
January 1, 1812 - Born Amelia Connolly
(1812-1890) Métis wife of Governor of Vancouver, nurse & midwife
March 28, 1812 -
Frances Ramsay Simpson (1812-1853) Lady Simpson, for whom Fort
Frances was named |
| 1813 |
April 1813 - Penelope Beikie remains to defend her home when
the Americans raided the Town of York (Toronto) and many
families fled to safety to avoid the coming attack
Source: Letter to her brother John. Letter 4 Letters from 1812.
;
Women
of Valour
, in Canadian History Aug-September 2013
April 27, 1813 - Angelica Givins treats wounded soldiers
in her house in York during retreat of her husband's forces. The
blood stains on her floor remained on the floor boards until the
house was demolished in 1891
Source: Letter to her brother John. Letter 4 Letters from 1812.
Historic-Canada.com/1812LetterFour.htm (Accessed March 2015);
Women
of Valour
, in Canadian History Aug-September 2013
June 22, 1813 - Laura Secord
(1775-1868)
learns plans by the Americans to attack Upper Canada . Laura walks
32 kilometers to wan the British Troops resulting in a British
victory at the Battle of Beaver Dams
September 1813-August 1816: "Black Refugees" Set Sail
- British Vice-Admiral Alexander Cochrane's offer of transportation
for anyone wanting to leave the United States was widely circulated
among the Black population. Four thousand former slaves deserted to
the British side and were transported to the British colonies. About
2000 refugees set sail for Nova Scotia from September 1813- August
1816
Births 1813:
1813 - Born Letitia
Hargrave (1813-1854) fur trading era pioneer
1813 - Born
Maria Miller (1813-1875) artist of wild flowers
February 12, 1813 - Born Mary Frances Ann Morris Miller
(1813-1875) 1st professional woman artist in Nova Scotia |
1814
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1814 -
The population of Canada in 95,000
July 25, 1814 -
The
battle of Lundy's Lane raged and each side of the battle suffered
over 500 wounded. Catherine Lundy opened her home to
the wounded and tended to their care. Her contribution was
considered so important that a senior British officer paid her a
visit and presented her with his sword. Source:
Parks Canada
December 24, 1814 -
The Treaty of Ghent is signed, ending the War of 1812 and restoring
Canada-U. S. borders |
| 1815 |
1815 -
300 former slaves from Virginia and Maryland in the U.S.A. arrive in
Saint John, New Brunswick and settle in Loch Lomond
Births
1815:
1815 - Born Sydna Edmonia Robella Francis (1815-1889) Black
pioneer, abolitionist & suffragist
1815 - Born Harriet Powel (1815?- 1860) escaped slave who used
the underground railroad
December 5, 1815 - Born Adeline Boardman Todd (1815-1882) author
of stories for children
December 22, 1815 - Born Ellen Kyle Noel (1815-1873) author |
| 1816 |
Births
1816:
March 1816 -
Born Mary McConnell-Conroy (1816-1887) pioneer businesswoman of
the Gatineau, Ontario
June 27, 1816 - Born Maria Monk (1816- 1849) author of
disrepute |
| 1817 |
Births 1817:
February 2, 1817 - Born Frances Carpenter Curtis - Boucherat
(1817-1888) ship bride
Deaths 1817:
October 1, 1817 -
Died Jeanne Dugas (1731-1817) pioneer Acadian |
| 1818 |
Births
1818:
1818 - Born Elizabeth Chandler McDougall (1818-1903) pioneer
of the Canadian North West
1818 - Born Jessie Joyful Steinhauser (1818?-1910?) Cree wife
of first Indigenous Methodist minister
February 7, 1818 - Born Susannah Woodhouse Oland (1818-1885)
businesswoman in beer industry
March 1, 1818 -
Born Léocadie-Romaine
Gascoin / Sister Marie des Septs-Douleurs (1818-1900) religious
leader and mother Superior of her order
March 10, 1818 - Born Catherine Seaton (1818-1897) artist
March 19, 1818 - Born Elizabeth Bruyère (1818-1876) founder of
Grey Sisters of Ottawa, & founder of schools and hospitals in Ottawa
May 24, 1818 - Born Louisa Annie Murray (1818-1894) author
November 1, 1818 - Born Lydia Campbell (1818-1905) diarist of
life & lore of 19th century Labrador |
| 1819 |
Births:
1819? -
Born Caroline Hayward (1819?-1871) painter & poet
July 6, 1819 - Born Isabella Binney Cogswell (1819-1874)
humanitarian & philanthropist |
| 1820 |
Births
1820:
1820 - Born Fanny Bendixen (1820-1899) businesswoman
who ran boarding houses & saloons in Cariboo region of British
Colombia
1820 - Born Mary Elizabeth Bibb (1820-1877) 1st black
woman journalist in Canada
1820 - Born Matilda Davis (1820-1873) pioneer educator
1820 - Born Elizabeth Frame (1820-1913)
teacher & author
1820 - Born Maria Wait (1820 ca- 1848) heroine who travelled to
plead for her husband's life
March 14, 1820 -
Born Elizabeth ‘Eliza’ Murdoch Frame (1820-1904) author and local
historian
April 22, 1820 - Born Catherine MacNiven (1820-1865) poet
May 7, 1820 - Born
Mary Teresa
Dease (1820-1889) Superior-general of the Institute of Blessed virgin
Mary in America
December 31, 1820 -
Born Mary Anne Sadlier (1820-1903) prolific
author |
| 1821 |
Births
1821:
1821 -
Born Eliza Cox Carter (1821-1899) early unlicensed doctor in New
Brunswick
Deaths 1821:
August 1, 1821 - Died Catherine Anne Prevost (1766-1821) wife
of Sir George Prevost (1767-1816), Governor General of British
North America |
| 1822 |
1822 - Marguerite Magdelaine
Marcot La Famboise (1780-1846) retires as a
wealthy Métis fur trader in Michilmackinac territory in present day
Michigan
Source: Women in History: a timeline by Kirsten Smith, Postmedia news
March 3, 2011.
Births 1822:
February 28, 1822
-
Born Augusta Baldwin/Baldyn (1822-1884) poet
August 1, 1822 -
Born Amelia Lemon Burritt (1822-1929) pioneer & suffragist
Deaths 1822:
1822 - Died Sally Ainse Montour (1728-1822) an historic
plaque in Chatham, Ontario commemorates the life of this fiery
aboriginal woman
November 15, 1822 -
Born Sophia Thomas Mason (1822-1861) translated 1st Cree
Language Bible |
| 1823 |
1823 - Shawandithit,
(1801-1829) last member of the native Beothuk
tribe, is captured by fur traders
Births 1823:
1823 - Born Mary Abbott
(1823-1898) wife of Prime Minister John Joseph Abbott (1821-1893)
1823 - Born Charlotte deGrassi (1823-1872) heroine of the 1937
rebellion in Upper Canada (Ontario)
1823 -
Born Mary 'Anisalaga' Ebberts Hunt (1823-1916) Indigenous weaver
February 19, 1823 -
Born Annie Mountain (1823-1882) author
April 16, 1823 -
Born Ester Pariseau (Mother Joseph) (1823-1902) first woman
architect in Pacific Northwest
August 6, 1823 -
Born Amelia Burritt (1823-1929) suffragist
September 22, 1823 -
Died Johanna Donnelly (1823-1880) mother of the famous Black
Donnelly family
October 9, 1823 - Born Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893) 1st free
black in North America to edit a newspaper
April 161823 - Born Ester Pariseau, Mother
Joseph (1823-1902) Member of Sisters of Charity & pioneer of the
northwest coast of North America |
| 1824 |
1824
- Julia Catherine Hart (1796-1867) writes the 1st work of fiction by a
native born Canadian to be published in Canada
June 8,1824 - The 1st Canadian Patent for a washing machine is
granted to Noah Cushing Source: The Kid's book of
Canadian Firsts by Valerie Wyatt (Toronto : Kids Can Press, 2001) pg.
32
Births 1824:
1824 - Born Natawista-Iksana. Medicine Snake Woman.
(1824?-1893) healer
1824 - Born Sarah Herbert (1824-1846) editor, journalist & poet
1824 - Born Catherine Sonego Sutton (1824-1865) Nahnebahwequat,
Indigenous writer
April 8, 1823 - Born Anne Molson (1824-1899) philanthropist
wife of John Molson
May 25, 1824 - Born Nancy Alexander (1824-1912) Black pioneer |
| 1825 |
1825
– The latest census puts the population of Lower Canada (Quebec) at
479,288, and Upper Canada (Ontario) at 157,923
1825 - The Great Miramichi Fire lays waste to almost 20%
of the colony of New Brunswick
Births
1825:
1825 - Born
Cornelia deGrassi
(1825-1885) heroine of the 1837 rebellion in Upper Canada
March 22, 1825 - Born Jane Mackenzie
(1825-1893), wife of Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie (1822-1892)
October 8, 1825 -
Born Anna Delia Topley (1825-1906) photographer
Deaths1825:
May 19, 1825 - Died Grezelda Elizabeth Cottnam Tonge,
(1803-1825) Maritime poet. |
| 1826 |
August 19, 1826 -
The Canada Co. is chartered to colonize Upper Canada (now Ontario
Births
1825:
1826 - Born Kate M. Buckland (1826?-1896) stage actor
1826 - Born Sister Zoe Leblanc-Emery (1826-1885) religious
pioneer of the Canadian North West
1825 - Born Margaret Dixon McDougall (1826?-1898) author & poet
1825 -
Born Rhoda Ann Page (1826-1863) author
March 14, 1826 - Born Frances Amelia Tupper (1826-1912) wife
of Prime Minister Sir Charles Tupper (1821-1915) |
| 1827 |
August 10, 1827 -
As a result of race riots in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1,000 Black people
leave to settle in Canada
Births
1827:
1827 -
Born Mary Isabella Cole (1827-????) Mother de Chantal
January 3, 1827 - Born Lititia Youmans
(1827-1896) the 1st president of the Canadian
Women's Temperance Union (C W T U)
January 27, 1882
- Born Elise L’Hereux- Benoit dit Livernois (1827- 1896) pioneer
professional photographer
April 8, 1827 - Born Lucia Fidelia Gillette (1827-1905) may
be the first Baptist woman ordained in Canada
April 15, 1827 - Born Louisa Goddard Frothingham-Molson
(1827-1910) social activist & philanthropist
Deaths 1827:
1827 - Died Elizabeth Mitchell (ca 1761-1827) heroine of the
War of 1812
January 16, 1827 - Died Catherine Norton (1797? - 1827)
Karighwahcagh, accompanied her husband John Norton in War of 1812
October 7, 1827 - Died Mary 'Polly' Cannon (1751-1827)
pioneer |
| 1828 |
July 10,1828 -
Teenager
Anne Harvey
insists on accompanying her father and younger brother and their dog
is saving 163 lives off the brig The Dispatch which sank off Port
aux Basques, Newfoundland
Births 1828:
1828 - Born Mary Jane Lawson (1828 - 1890)
poet & historian
1828 - Born Grace Marks (1828-after 1873) controversial
convicted murderer
January 15, 1828 - Born Mary Jane Katzmann (1828-1890)
businesswoman, poet, editor, and historian
May 11, 1828 - Born Harriet Louise Bowell (1828-1884) wife of
Prime Minister Mackenzie Bowell
February 9, 1828 - Born
Marie Angèle Gauthier(1828-1898) author & teacher, who
taught aboriginal people in Duncan BC, knitting of Cowichan sweaters
December 25, 1828 - Born Margaret Moran Dixon
MacDougall/McDougall (1828-1899) poet, author & journalist |
| 1829 |
February 9, 1829 -
The 1st temperance meeting in Canada is held in Montreal
1829 -
Shawandithit, (
-1829) the last member of the native
Beothuk tribe, dies of tuberculosis
Births 1829:
1829 - Born Louise Ann Brown-Bailey
(1829-1911) pioneer Black businesswoman
1829 -
Born Mary Eliza Herbert (1829-1872) publisher,
novelist, & poet
1829 - Born Harriet Annie Wilkins
(1829-1888) teacher & poet
January 12, 1829 - Born
Rosanna Eleanora Leprohn (1829-1879) novelist & poet |
| 1830 |
1830
- Only four women voted in the New Brunswick provincial
election. At this point in time, women who owned property in New
Brunswick could vote
Births
1830:
1830? - Born Louisa Anne Brown-Bailey-Tillman (1830's /1840's
-1911) pioneer businesswoman of Halifax, NS
1830? - Born Amelia Clotilda Jennings (1830-1895) poet
1830 - Born ca 1830 Annie McDermot Bannatyne (1830 ca - 1908)
social activist
1830 - Born Marjory McLaren /MacLaren 1830-1910)
volunteer & worker for the Women's Missionary Society of the
Presbyterian Church of Canada.
January 22, 1830 - Born Albine Gadbois (1830-1874) Sister Marie
d'Bonsecoues, founder and director of the Institution des
sourdes-muettes de Montreal
February 24, 1830 - Born Charlotte Selina "Nina" Bompas
(1830-1917) Anglican Church missionary to the Canadian Northwest
March 14, 1830 - Born Abigail Becker Rohrer,(1830-1905) a
heroine who helped save lives of crew member of the schooner,
Conductor, her story seems to have been forgotten |
| 1831 |
1831 - The population of Canada is 236,000
1831 - The earliest known Canadian cook-book is
published in Kingston, Upper Canada (Ontario) Source
: Cool Chronology (accessed July
2005)
Births 1831:
May 1, 1831 - Born Emily Stowe (1831-1903)
social activist & feminist, studied medicine & became 1st
woman to practice medicine in Canada
July 1831 - Born Josephine Paul Tourond (1831-1928) pioneer in
the Northwest territories
July 4, 1831 -
Born Mary Evans Coady-Johnson (1831-1920) ship bride
September 12, 1831 - Born Elizabeth Newell Lockerby - Bacon
(1831-1884) poet
September 24, 1831 - Born Louisa Townsend-Mallandaine
(1831-1925) 'Ship-Bride' & pioneer in British Columbia
October 4, 1831 - Born Martha Hamm Lewis (1831-1892) a teacher,
1st woman to become a teacher in New Brunswick
Deaths 1831:
1831 - Died Marie Catherine Pélissier
Sales Laterière (1755-1831) a woman who is a true symbol of one who
fought for the rights of individuals
January 25, 1831 - Died Marie Anne Paquet (de Saint Olivier)
(1755-1831) Ursuline Mother Superior |
| 1832 |
June 7, 1832 - Asian
cholera reaches Lower Canada, (now Quebec), brought by Irish
immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada
1832 -
Catherine Parr Trail (1802-1899)
emigrates to Canada where she became a respected author
December 1832 -
The Montreal Museum or Journal of Literature and Arts, which
was published 1832-March 1934, was the first published Canadian
magazine for women that was also edited and owned by a woman, Mary
Graddon Gosselin
Births 1832:
1832 -
Born Mary Eliza Herbert (1832-1872) 1st woman editor and publisher of
a magazine in Nova Scotia
June 21, 1832 - Born Alice Theodosia Shaw-Chipman (1832-1921)
teacher in New Brunswick
October 23, 1832 - Born Emma Sophia Fiske (1832-1914) active
volunteer & social activist
November 12, 1832 -
Born Annie Ballantyne (1832-1908) social activist in Red
River Settlement
December 14, 1832 - Born Margaret Sophia Cameron (1832-1882)
her body travelled over 8,000 miles to be buried |
| 1833 |
Births
1833:
1833 - Born Sarah Anne Curzon, (1833-1898) champion of
Canadian women's rights & author
June 9, 1833 - Born Agnes Dunbar Fitzgibbon Chamberlin
(1833-1913) author & painter
July 11, 1833 - Born Aurelie Caouette , Mother
Catherine-Aurelie du Precieux-Sang (1833-1905) founder of Sisters of
the Precious Blood
September 30, 1833 - Born Johanne Louise Charlotte Fuher
(1833-1907)
midwife & author
December 3, 1833 -
Born Caroline 'Kate' Churchill (1833-1926) journalist & feminist
December 3, 1833 -
Born Charlotte Townsend (1833-1929) ship bride & pioneer
Deaths 1834:
1834 - Died Rhoda Skinner (1775-1834) pioneer mother
to 37 children |
| 1834 |
January 1, 1834 - The Legislative Assembly of Lower
Canada passes the Election Act restricting women from voting to
protect them from dangerous conditions at polling stations
August 1,1834 - Emancipation Day, the Slavery abolition Act
ban slavery in the British Empire
Births 1834:
January 17, 1834- Born Hannah Maynard (1834-1918),
renown portrait photographer
May 21, 1834 - Born Charlotte Mont Brock Schreiber
(1834-1922) artist and 1st woman book illustrator in Canada
October 27, 1834 - Born Helen Mar Johnson (1834-1863) poet |
| 1835 |
Births 1835:
1835
- Born Lucy Margaret Baker (1835-1909) the 1st Presbyterian w0man
Missionary in the Canadian North West
1835 -
Born Emily Susan Patterson (1835-1909) considered
first nurse in Vancouver
January 3, 1835 - Born Isabella Whiteford
Rogerson (1835-1905) Newfoundland poet
February 29, 1835 - Born Teresa Margaret
McDonnell (1835-1917) Sister Therese, pioneer pharmacist & country
doctor
May 11, 1835 - Born Elizabeth Lee Macdonald
(1835-1901) social activist & author
November 10, 1835 - Born Elizabeth Carey Murray (1835-1920)
social activist in Halifax |
| 1836 |
January 1, 1836 - An act of the legislature
of Prince Edward Island comes into effect excluding women from the
right to vote
1836 - Opening of Canada's1stt Railroad. It runs from St Johns, Quebec to La Prairie, Quebec
Births 1836:
1836
- Born Catherine Beaulieu Bouvier Lamoureaux
(1836-1918) pioneer of Northwest Territories & National Historic
Person
1836 -
Born Anna Louisa Walker Coghill (1836-1907) poet and hymn writer
August 3, 1836 - Born Mary Wiley (1836-1909) social activist
with the W C T U
August 4, 1836 - Born Ellen Vasasour Noel (1836-1902) author
August 24,1836 - Born Susan Agnes Bernard Macdonald (1836-1920),
Baroness Macdonald of Earnscliffe, 2nd wife of Sir John A.
Macdonald (1815-1891) |
| 1837 |
1837 -
Political uprisings known as Rebellions of 1837 occur in both Upper
and Lower Canada
1837 - Teenagers Cornelia
(1825-1885) and Charlotte de Grassi,
( 1823 -1872) daughters of
a British officer, Captain Philippe de Grassi, help during the
rebellion in Toronto by spying on the rebels and reporting to the
British military. Source: Ontario Women's Directorate
online
(accessed February 5, 2003)
Births 1837:
1837 -
Born Anne Brown (1837?-1906) wife of Sir George Brown and Mother
of Confederation
1837 -
Born Jane Buchan (1837-1904) Baptist Women's Missionary Society
1837 -
Born
Julia Louisa Hurst-Mitchell (1837-1921) ship bride
1837 -
Born Mary Macdonald-Leech (1837-1892) Bride ship pioneer of
British Columbia
1837 -
Born Polly Verner (1837-1918) a citizen of Toronto
1837 -
Born Jane Buchan (1837-1904) social activist
1837 -
Born Catherine McLennan (1837-1892) west coast social activist
January 1, 1837 - Born Cecilia Viets Jamieson (1837-1909)
author of children's books
January 23, 1837 - Born
Agnes Maule Machar (1837-1927) author, biographer & poet
March 31, 1837 - Born Annie Rothwell Christie (1837- 1927) author.
March 24, 1837 - Born Amelia Minnie Johnston Weatherbe
(1837-1923) poet
September 20, 1837 - Born Roberta Elizabeth Tilton
(1837-1925) social activist with the Women's Christian Temperance
Union (WCTU).
September 27, 1837 -
Born Mary Clay-Ackerman (1837- 1938) ship bride
October 28, 1837 - Born Sarah Hanna Roberta Coome (1837-1921) co
founder of the Anglican Sisterhood of St. John The Devine, Toronto,
Ontario
November 6, 1837 - Born Marie-Eleonore Malvina Gagne
(1837-1920) Mother Saint Raphael of Ursuline order.
November 26, 1837 - Born Clara Mountcastle (1837-1908) Caris
Sima, author & poet
Deaths 1837:
November 23/24, 1837 - Died
Catherine Brant (ca 1759-1837)
Ohtowa kéhson head woman of the Turtle Clan & 3rd wife of Chief
Joseph Brant (1743-1807)
|
| 1838 |
1838 -
Elizabeth Lount of York, Upper Canada presents her petition
of 35,000 signatures demanding clemency for her husband, sentence to
hang for his part in the Rebellion of 1837. The Governor turned a
deaf ear to her pleas
1838 - Maria Wait
(1820 ca-1848)
travels over 900 kilometers to plead with Lord
Durham to spare her husband who has been sentenced to death for his
participation in the 1837 Rebellion in Upper Canada
Source Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online edition. Under
Benjamin Wait. (Accessed June 2006)
The information is found under the entry of her husband. There is no
entry for Maria herself in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Births 1838:
1838 -
Born Jessie Kerr Lawson, (1838-1917) journalist
1838 -
Born Tookoolito (1838-1876) Inuit interpreter and life skills teacher
to Arctic explorers and National Historic Person
February 1, 1838 - Born Mercy Anne Coles (1838 - 1921)
diarist during pre-confederation Canada
February 15, 1838 - Born Julia Annie Holmes (1838-1897)
feminist, mountaineer, & journalist
December 16, 1838 - Born Anna 'Annie' Marier Gregg Savigny
(1838-1901) author
December 24, 1838 - Born Eliza Marie Jones (1838-1903)
agricultural business woman |
| 1839 |
Births1839:
1839 - Born Rosa Portlock (1839-1928) author
January 1, 1839 - Born Annie L. Jack , (1839-1912)
Canada's 1st professional garden writer
February 26, 1839 -
Born Sarah Ann Lovegrove (1839-1917) ship bride
June 7, 1839 - Born Anne Quinlan (1839-1923) teacher in New
Brunswick
November 14, 1839 - Born
Janet Carnochan (1839-1926) Teacher & historian
Deaths 1839:
April 9, 1839 - Died
Nancy Purvis (1790-1839) teacher & school administrator
September 18, 1839 - Died Jeanne Charlotte Allamand Berczy
(1760-1839) pioneer, painter, teacher & one of the founders of
Toronto |
| 1840 |
July 23, 1840 - The Act of Union is passed by the
British Parliament uniting Upper (now Ontario) & Lower Canada (now
Quebec) into The Canadas, East and West.
1840 - After the death of her husband, Sophia Sims
Dalton
(1785c-1859) takes over, and
becomes the 1st woman in Toronto to run a
newspaper, The Patriot
Births 1840:
1840 -
Born Madeleine Dumont (1840-1886) pioneer & heroine
1840 - Born Georgina Whetsel (1840-1919) Black businesswoman in
New Brunswick
April 1, 1840 - Born Margaret
Vallance Taylor, Lady Taylor (1840-1922) social activist
July 17, 1840 - Born Philomene
Gendron (1840-1921) religious Superior of a mission in
Campbelton, New Brunswick
July 29, 1840 - Born Ema Helen Alexander (1840-1916) ship
bride & pioneer in British Columbia
October/November 1840 - Died
Matilda Moore Churchill (1840-1924)
missionary to India from Baptist Church
Deaths 1840:
1840? - Died
Catherine Smith (1772-1840?) United Empire Loyalist in Upper Canada |
| 1841 |
February 10, 1841 - The Act of Union unites Upper and Lower Canada as the Province of
Canada
1841 - Mrs. John Fletcher
may have been
the first woman to be a commercial daguerreotypist ( early
photographic process) in North America if not the world. She
accompanied her husband, a doctor and phrenological lecturer about
the Canadian Maritimes producing some photographs of their trip. The
couple disappear from all records after this time and it is assumed
they returned to England
Source : Graham Garrett.
1841 -
The Dawn Settlement, in what is now
Dresden, Ontario, is established to
provide self-help for Blacks in agricultural communities
Births 1841:
1841 -
Born Elizabeth Secord (1841-1916) 1st qualified registered physician
in the province of New Brunswick 1883
1841 -
Born Anne Marie Weems (1841- ) a former slave who survived
the underground railroad
April 21, 1841 - Born Jenny (Jennie) Trout (1841-1921)
pioneer medical doctor, 1st Canadian woman licensed to practice
medicine in Canada
July 25, 1841 - Born Marie de Kerstrat (1841-1920) exhibitor
of early silent movies
August 3, 1841 - Born Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841-1885) poet & writer of
children's novels set in Canada
August 4, 1841 -
Born Charlotte Anne Harrington (1841-1906) letter writer
October 30 1841 - Born Eliza Ann McIntosh Reid (1841-1926)
social activist
November 7, 1841 - Born
Mary Elizabeth Jane Muchall
(1841-1892) poet, journalist & writer of short stories
November 21, 1841 - Born Ellen Agnes Bilbrough-Wallace
(1841-1900) manager of Marchmont Home, Belleville, Ontario
December 1841 - Born Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds (1841-1898) army
nurse and spy in the American Civil War
Deaths 1841:
February 15, 1841 - Died Mary Barbara
Fisher (1749-1841) loyalist pioneer of Canadian Maritimes
April 25, 1841- Died Charlotte Taylor (1752?-1841) Mother
of Tabusintac. New Brunswick. * May have been born between
1752-1755) |
| 1842 |
Births
1842:
1842 - Born Flora Amelia Ross (1842-1897) early Métis nurse
and early administrator
March 7, 1842 -
Born Jane Stafford (1842-1925) pioneer of the Canadian North
West
March 9, 1842 -
Born Margaret Wilson Eaton (1842-1933) philanthropist
March 29, 1842 - Born Amelia
Yeomans (1842-1913) pioneer medical doctor & feminist
May 10, 1842 - Born Emma Lazenby Spencer (1842-1934) ship
bride & social activist
May 20, 1842 - Born Johanna 'Joan' Matheson (1842-1916) one
of the 1st nurses to serve in the Canadian military
June 11, 1842 - Born Mary Leslie (1842-1920) revered poet
November 30, 1842 - Born Hannah Marie Armstrong (1842-1919)
Baptist Missionary |
| 1843 |
September 1, 1843 - Sir John A. Macdonald
(1815-1891) weds Isabel Clark
(1811- 1857), he would become
Canada's 1st Prime Minister
1843 - The New Brunswick Legislative Assembly changes
the provincial Elections Act to state that only men who owned
property could vote. The act cleared up the understanding of the
word 'Persons' to vote in the province.
1843 -
Wesleyan Academy opens in New Brunswick awhich will become
Mount Allison University
Births1843:
1843 -
Born Helen Mary 'Marie' Grant (1843-1907) in 1885 1st women
school trustee in Canada
April 4, 1843 - Born Margaret Fox Jenkins (1843-1922) west
coast activist
May 4, 1843 - Born Clemetina Fessenden (1843 - 1918) founder of the
I O D E.
July 15,
1843 - Born Charlotte Whitehead Ross (1843-1916 first
woman doctor in Montreal and in the province of Manitoba
December 10, 1843 - Born Alice Star Tilly (1843-1921) social
activist and "Mother of Confederation" |
| 1844 |
January 1, 1844 -
Seven women voted in the election in Canada West (now Ontario). This
is the first recorded instance of women violating the common law
tradition by voting in the province.
October 1844 -
At least seven women vote in the Canada West (now Ontario)
provincial election
Births:
1844 - Born Emily Brit Aberington-Teague (1844-1892) ship bride
1844 - Born Eliza Marie Campbell (1844-1910) divorcee
1844 - Born Marcella McFarland (1844-1896) Alberta Pioneer
1844 - Born Jane Ann Saunders-Nesbit (1844-1897) 'Ship-bride and
businesswoman in British Columbia
February 27, 1844 - Born Louisa Anne Donald Thomson (1844-1915)
social activist & president of National Council of Women
June 1, 1844 - Born Margaret Smith Polson Murray
(1844-1927) social activist & founder of the Independent Order of
the Daughters of the Empire
September 29, 1844
- Born Matilda Edgar (1844-1910)
historian
November 21, 1844 - Born Julia Thomas (1844-1931) indomitable
early woman doctor |
| 1845 |
February 20, 1845 -
Elizabeth Bruyère (1818-1876)
and three other Sisters of Charity arrive by sled on the frozen Ottawa
River. They were dispatched from Montreal to help the beleaguered
parish priest who was threatening to leave. They would establish a
school, an orphanage and a hospital to help the small settlement
survive
Births 1845:
1845 -
Born Annie J. Arthurs (1845-1927) portrait artist
1845 -
Born Rosetta Ernestine Carr (1845-1907) photographer & businesswoman
1845 -
Born Ellen 'Nellie Cashman (1845?-1925) businesswoman
1845 -
Born Onésime Dorval (1845-1932) the 1st trained teacher in the
Red River area and a National Historic Person of Canada
1845 - Born Charlotte Amelia Eaton (1845-1934) author & poet
1845 - Born
Jessie McEwen (1845-1920) social activist
January 9, 1845 - Born Félicité Angers (Laure Conan), (1845-1924) The
1st French Canadian woman novelist. A
witness to her time.
April 12, 1845 - Born Caroline Blowers Gaetz (1845-1906)
Pioneer in Alberta
May 11, 1845 - Born Camilla B. Sanderson (1845-1921) social
activist
June 26, 1845 -
Born Annie Emma Affleck Thompson (1845-1913)
wife of Prime Minister Sir John Thompson (1845-1894)
July 5, 1845 - Born Margaret Ross (1845-1935) Biographer
July 27, 1845 - Born Marie Louise Amanda Viger (1845-1906)
Sister St.-Jean-De-Goto Sister Superior
August 3, 1845 - Born Onésime Dorval (1845-1932) 1st
certified teacher in Saskatchewan.
August 15, 1845 - Born Joanna Harrington, Sister Mary
Benedicta (1845-1895) Mother superior of her convent.
August 18, 1845 - Born Susan Louise Moir Allison (1845-1937)
pioneer and author, British Columbia, in 2010 became National
Historic Person.
August 25, 1845 - Born Charlotte Learmont (1845-1934) social
activist
October 25, 1845 - Born Rebecca Agatha Armour Thompson
(1845-1891) novelist
December 14, 1845 - Born Mattie Cartmell (1845-1945) educator
& missionary to Japan.
Deaths 1845:
September 9, 1845 - Hannah Jarvis (1763-1845) pioneer, diarist,
& letter writer |
| 1846 |
October
8, 1846 - Frances Amelia Morse
(1826-1912)
marries Charles Tupper
(1821-1915) a Nova Scotia physician and
future Prime Minister
of Canada
Births
1846:
1846 -
Born Julia Smith Winder (1846-1926) pioneer of Canadian North
West
January 30, 1846 - Born Charlotte Sarah Canham (1846-1921)
Anglican Church missionary to the Yukon
August 7, 1846 - Born Anna Swan (1846-1888) in her day she was
the tallest woman in the world some 228 cm (7'6").
August 19, 1846 - Born Sarah Galbraith Calder (1846-1914)
social activist
October 14, 1846 - Born Marion Stirling (1846 -1923) social
activist, medical doctor & missionary
December 6, 1846
- Born Anna Sutherland Bissell (1846-1934) businesswoman
Deaths:
April 4, 1846 - Marguerite Magdelaine La Framboise (1780-1846
fur trader and businesswoman
July 4 1846 - Died
Marie-Louise McLoughlin
(1780-1846) Sister se Saint Henri. Mother Superior of Ursuline order
December 22, 1846 - Died Sarah
Herbert (1824-1846) editor, journalist & poet |
| 1847 |
1847 -
Ottawa is
hit with a typhus epidemic. Elizabeth Bruyère
(1818-1876) and the Grey Nuns are instrumental
is establishing an hospital and caring for victims. Shortly after an
Orphanages is established by Bruyère for the surviving children who
are without family
December 23, 1847 - Harriet Louise Moore
(1828-1994) marries Mackenzie
Bowell (1823?- 1917)
future Prime Minister of Canada
Births 1847:
1847 - Born Mary Teresa McGee
(1847-1871) 'Mother of Confederation'
1847 -
Born Adelaide Morin - Thomas (1847-1957) pioneer in
Canadian northwest
Spring 1847 - Born Edith Sarah Louisa Nordheimer (1847-1912)
social activist and honourary patroness of the I O D E
September 16, 1847 - Born Agnes Grote Copeland (1847-1932)
poet and song writer
December 27, 1847 -
Born Elizabet Jennet Wylie McMaster (1847-1903) 1st
superintendent of Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
November 12, 1847 - Born Mary Agnes Snively (1847-1933)
'Mother of Canadian nurses'
|
| 1848 |
1848 - The first New
Brunswick Normal School (teacher's college) opens in New Brunswick
Births
1848:
1848 - Born Jane Mary Livingston (1848-1919) Calgary
pioneer
1848 - Born Frances Tweedie Milne (1848-1893) diarist in
Ontario
January 9, 1848 - Born Adaline Augusta 'Ada' Marean-Hughes
(1848-1929) 1st woman hired by the Toronto Board of Education
January 29, 1848 - Born
Frances Ester 'Hester' How, (1848-1915) teacher
February 3, 1848 -
Born Janet Ann Macdonald-Lawson (1848-1934) ship bride
March 9, 1848 - Born Margaret Elizabeth Hunter (1848-1940)
nursed wounded during 1885 insurrection
March 17, 1848 - Born Clara Morrison (1848-1925), stage actress known
as the "Queen of the Melodramas".
March 17, 1848 - Born Ruth Morton (1848-1939) west coast
pioneer
May 17, 1848 - Born Gertrude Elizabeth 'Nora' Livingston
(1848-1927) pioneer & founding Superintendent Montreal General
Hospital School for Nurses
October 11, 1848 - Born Sara Riel (1848-1883) 1st Métis Grey
Nun from Red River District
Deaths 1848:
1848 - Died Maria Wait (1820 ca- 1848) heroine who travelled
to save her husband's life
September 24, 1848 -
Died Elizabeth Johnston (1764-1848) author & loyalist settler in
Nova Scotia |
| 1849 |
January 1, 1849 -
Under the leadership of La Fontaine-Baldwin in the province of
Canada, the "historical
irregularity" of the 1791 Constitution Act which allowed
certain owners and tenants were granted qualified voter status,
without distinction as to sex, allowed some women of Lower Canada who met
the prerequisites interpreted this constitutional "oversight" as an
authorization to vote was rectified when women were formally prohibited from
voting. It would seem that they were the only women
in the British Empire to avail themselves of this right
July 26,
1849 - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott
(1821-1893) future Prime Minister of Canada
marries Mary Martha Bethune (1823?-1898)
Births 1849:
1849 - Born Sarah Foulds Camsell (1849-1939) pioneer of Red
River Manitoba.
1849 - Born
Augusta Charlotte Fraser (1849-1896) author
1849 - Born Eliza Victoria Hardisty (1849-1929) pioneer of the
Canadian Northwest.
1849 - Born Jean Anne Pinkham (1849-1940) social activist and
volunteer in Saskatchewan and Alberta
January 27, 1849 - Born Mary Mellish Archibald (1849-1901)
educator, Ladies Academy/College Mount Allison, New Brunswick
February 5, 1849 - Born Wilhelmina
'Minnie' Smith (1849-1925) social activist & community volunteer
March 10, 1849 - Died Anne Powell (1755-1849) Doyenne of
Toronto during War of 1812
March 26, 1849 - Born Zoe Lafontaine Laurier (1849-1930) wife of
Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier (1841-1919)
March 26, 1849 - Born
Marie Louise-Emilie Lavergne
(1849-1930) close friend of Sir Wilfrid Laurier.(1841-1919)
April 19, 1849 -
Born Lettice Perry (1849-1939) Alberta pioneer
August 2, 1849 - Born Bertha Rosenthal 1849- 1922) a leading
woman in the Ottawa Area
September 17, 1849 - Born Isabel Julia Curtis-Askew
(1849-1905) ship bride
September 21, 1849 - Born Maria Louisa Angwin (1849-1898) 1st woman licensed medical doctor in Nova Scotia.
September 24, 1849 - Born Mary Ellen 'Bellelle' Guerin
(1849-1929) social activist
October 10, 1849 - Born Mary Jane McQuesten (1849-1934)
social activist, supported the Women's Foreign Mission Society of
the Presbyterian Church
October 22, 1949 -
Born Lucinda ‘Lucy’ Thurman (1849-1918) Black activist in the U. S.
A.
December 1849 - Born Charlotte MacIntyre (1849-1922) poet
December 18, 1849 - Born Henrietta Louise Edwards
(1849-1931) Member of the "Famous Five"
Deaths
1849:
1849 - Died Maria Monk ( 1816-1849) author of
disrepute
October 6, 1849 - Died Mother Marie-Rose (Elalie Durocher)
(1811-1849) founder of community of Sisters of the Holy Name
of Jesus and Mary. Beatified by Pope John Paul ll 1982
November 18, 1949 -
Died Mary Tryhosa Kinley-Ingrham (1874-1949) librarian, poet,
& playwright
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