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1851 in Canada
Summary
Events from the year
1851 in Canada
.
←
1850
1849
1848
1851
in
Canada
→
1852
1853
1854
Decades:
1830s
1840s
1850s
1860s
1870s
See also:
History of Canada
Timeline of Canadian history
List of years in Canada
Incumbents
edit
Monarch —
Victoria
[1]
Federal government
edit
Parliament
:
3rd
Governors
edit
Governor General of the Province of Canada
—
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
Colonial Governor of Newfoundland
—
Charles Henry Darling
Governor of New Brunswick
—
Edmund Walker Head
Governor of Nova Scotia
—
John Harvey
Governor of Prince Edward Island
—
Dominick Daly
Premiers
edit
Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada
—
Francis Hincks
, Canada West Premier
Augustin-Norbert Morin
, Canada East Premier
Premier of Nova Scotia
—
James Boyle Uniacke
Premier of Prince Edward Island
—
John Holl
Events
edit
April 7 – The first Canadian
postage stamps
are printed
April 25 –
Prince Edward Island
wins
responsible government
June – Harbor Commissioners deepen Lake St. Peter.
July – The
bloomer
costume appears in Montreal.
July 31 – Broad
Provincial railway gauge
is legislated in the Province of Canada,
[2]
creating a
break-of-gauge
with American railways.
August 30 – The
Vancouver Island
legislature meets for the first time
October 11 – The St. L. & A. Railway is opened to Richmond.
William Kennedy
was commander of the second sponsored expedition to find
Sir John Franklin
Full date unknown
edit
Gabriel Franchere
's
Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America
published in
Montreal
.
The United Kingdom transfers control of the colonial postal system to Canada.
Births
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April 7 –
John Wilson Bengough
, political cartoonist (died
1923
)
April 8 –
Frederick Peters
, lawyer, politician and Premier of
Prince Edward Island
(died
1919
)
May 22 –
Gilbert Ganong
, businessman, politician and Lieutenant Governor of
New Brunswick
(died
1917
)
July 8 –
James Dunsmuir
, industrialist, politician and Premier of
British Columbia
(died
1920
)
August 26 –
Herbert James Palmer
, politician and Premier of
Prince Edward Island
(died
1939
)
September 5 –
George Frederick Baird
, politician and lawyer (died
1899
)
November –
Levi Addison Ault
, businessman and naturalist (died
1930
)
November 28 –
Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey
, 9th
Governor General of Canada
(died
1917
)
December 10 –
James Albert Manning Aikins
, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of
Manitoba
(died
1929
)
Deaths
edit
References
edit
^
"Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia".
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca
. Retrieved
5 December
2022
.
^
Churcher website, Colin. "Significant Dates in Canadian Railway History". Archived from the original on 2006-08-29
. Retrieved
2011-08-02
.