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1851 in Canada

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Events from the year 1851 in Canada.

Incumbents

  • Monarch — Victoria

Federal government

  • Parliament: 3rd

Governors

  • 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

  • Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada —
    • Robert Baldwin, Canada West Premier
    • Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canada East Premier
  • Premier of Nova Scotia — James Boyle Uniacke
  • Premier of Prince Edward Island — John Holl

Events

  • 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,{{cite web |url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm |title=Significant Dates in Canadian Railway History |first=Colin |last=Churcher website |access-date=2011-08-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060829044454/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm |archive-date=2006-08-29
  • 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

  • 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

  • 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)

References

References

  1. "Queen Victoria {{!}} The Canadian Encyclopedia".
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