Events listed relate to Canadian women with a few extra items added to give the timeline perspective.
This timeline is not all inclusive.
 

LAST UPDATED January 2022

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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
February 19, 1800 - Born Marie Emilie / Amelie Eugene Tavernier - Gamelin (1800-1851) Mother Gamelin, Sisters of Provenance
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

Deaths 1810:
1810? - Died Maiden Price - Stacy (????-1810) pioneer
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

1812 - The first settlers arrive in Lord Selkirk's (Thomas Douglas 1771-1820) Red River Colony

October 13, 1812 - During the War of 1812, Sir Isaac Brock (1769-1812) drops by the home of his fiancée, Sophia Shaw (1792-1872) before setting out to die on the battlefield at Queenston Heights

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
December 24, 1813 - Born Marie Antoinette Fontbonne, Sister Delphine, Order of St. Joseph. (1813-1856)
 
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
 		 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
June 12, 1817 - Born Luce Cuvillier (1817-1900) a Mother of Confederation

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:
1821 - Died Abigail Adair (1736-1821) pioneer
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
October 10, 1822 - Born Catherine A. Delany (1822-1894) Black pioneer

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 Maria Bunning Sister Mary Martha of Sisters of St. Joseph (1824-1868)
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)
April 10, 1826 - Born Pamella Sarah Yule (1826-1897) poet & author
 
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

January 1, 1830 - The First Grand Lodge of the Orange Order is founded by Ogle R. Gowan in Brockville, Upper Canada

March 31, 1831 - Quebec City and Montreal are incorporated

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 January 1, 1832 - Grosse Ile, near Quebec City, is opened as a quarantine station  during the cholera epidemics. All ships were stopped for inspection. Many Irish immigrants would die of the disease on this island

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 1833:
1833 - Died  Madeleine Brousseau (1785-1833) educator
 
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

March 6, 1834 - The City of Toronto is incorporated

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

Deaths 1834:
1834 - Died Rhoda Skinner (1775-1834) pioneer mother to 37 children
 
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

July 21, 1836 - Opening of Canada's first Railroad. The Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad 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
1836 - Born Mary McDougal (1836?-1901) social activist
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 November 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
1843 - Born Catherine Mulaire (1843-1922) Métis teacher
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 June 15, 1846 - The Oregon Boundary Treaty is signed. It establishes the boundary between the U.S.A. and Britsh North Americat at 49 degrees north latitude with Vancouver Island being left with the British

October 8, 1846 - Frances Amelia Morse (1826-1912) marries Charles Tupper (1821-1915)  a Nova Scotia physician and future Prime Minister of Canada

December 19, 1846 - The Toronto to Hamilton section of  of the Toronto, Hamilton, Niagara and St. Catherines Telegraph Company is opened. 19th Century life changes forever. (Telegraph, telephone, tell a woman...the best ways to spread news...)

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
September 1, 1846 - Born Ella Hobday Bronson (1846-1925) 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 - Died 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 January 1, 1847 - Egerton Ryerson (1803-1882)  publishes a Report on a System of Public Elementary instruction for Upper Canada which  proposing an education system based on Christian Fait, universal access and government support

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
July 18, 1847 - Born Jane Emily Steele (1847-1923) social activist
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'

Deaths 1847:
June 17, 1847 - Died Sister May Joseph Nugent (1799-1847) first nurse in Newfoundland
 
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 22, 1848 - Born Cecelia Sylvester (1848-1935) Pioneer Jew in British Columbia
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.

May 1, 1849 - The Province of Ontario passes legislation to bar women from voting

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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