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1848 in Canada
Summary
Events from the year
1848 in Canada
.
←
1847
1846
1845
1848
in
Canada
→
1849
1850
1851
Decades:
1820s
1830s
1840s
1850s
1860s
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
Governor of New Brunswick
:
William MacBean George Colebrooke
Governor of Nova Scotia
:
Lucius Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland
Civil Governor of Newfoundland
:
John Harvey
Governor of Prince Edward Island
:
Henry Vere Huntley
Premiers
edit
Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada
—
William Henry Draper
, Canada West Premier
Samuel Harrison
, Canada East Premier
Premier of Nova Scotia
—
James Boyle Uniacke
Events
edit
January 2 –
Maple sugar
is made in St. Anselme.
January 15 – Wellington and Commissioners streets in
Montreal
are flooded.
January 27 – Ploughing about Bathurst and Beckwith.
March 4 – The so-called Great Ministry of
Robert Baldwin
and
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
begins.
May 15 – MP's vote themselves 50 pounds each for 25 days.
July 5 – Run on the Savings Bank, Montreal, followed by re-deposit.
September 20 – Opening of the
Jesuits
' College, Montreal.
full date unknown
edit
First telegraph lines in
Nova Scotia
and
New Brunswick
.
1848 Newfoundland general election
Responsible government established in
Nova Scotia
and
The Canadas
.
Births
edit
January 19 –
John Fitzwilliam Stairs
, entrepreneur and statesman (died
1904
)
February 4 –
James Brien
, politician and physician (died
1907
)
February 24 –
Grant Allen
, science writer, author and novelist (died
1899
)
March 7 –
Isidore-Noël Belleau
, politician and lawyer (died
1936
)
March 24 –
Honoré Beaugrand
, journalist, politician, author and folklorist (died
1906
)
April 14 – James Walker, jurist
April 23 –
George Clift King
, politician and 2 Mayor of
Calgary
(died
1935
)
May 20 –
Joseph-Aldric Ouimet
, politician (died
1916
)
July 18 –
Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan
, newspaper publisher (died
1938
)
October 23 –
Joseph Tassé
, politician (died
1895
)
November 24 –
William Stevens Fielding
, journalist, politician and Premier of
Nova Scotia
(died
1929
)
December 21 –
George Boyce
, politician (died
1930
)
Deaths
edit
February 1 –
John Neilson
, publisher, printer, bookseller, politician, farmer, and militia officer (born
1776
)
References
edit
^
"Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia".
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca
. Retrieved
5 December
2022
.