Events from the year 1829 in Canada.
Incumbents
- Monarch: George IV
Federal government
- 13th Parliament of Lower Canada
- 10th Parliament of Upper Canada
Governors
- Governor-General of the Province of Canada: James Kempt
- Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick: Sir Howard Douglas
- Governor of Nova Scotia: Thomas Nickleson Jeffery
- Colonial Governor of Newfoundland: Thomas John Cochrane
- Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island: John Ready
Events
- January 4 – Sir John Colborne, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada founds Upper Canada College, as a feeder school to the newly formed University of Toronto and a home for the colony's upper class.
- November 30 – Construction of the First Welland Canal is completed (construction to begin again in 1831)
Births
- May 28 – A. B. Rogers, surveyor (died 1889)
- June 7 – Joseph Godéric Blanchet, politician (died 1890)
- July 10 – Louis-Adélard Senécal, businessman and politician (died 1887)
- August 1 – John James Fraser, lawyer, judge, politician and 4th Premier of New Brunswick (died 1896)
- December 5 – Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, politician, Minister, 4th Premier of Quebec and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (died 1908)
Deaths
- June 6 – Shanawdithit, last recorded surviving member of the Beothuk people of Newfoundland (b. c1801)