1852 in Canada

Events from the year 1852 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch — Victoria

Federal government

• Parliament: 4th

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 —
• 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

• January 15 – Trinity College opens.
• July 8 – Beginning of a fire which burns 11,000 houses in Montreal.
• October – The Bank of Montreal issues notes like the Bank of England's; denomination water-marked.
• October 25 – The Toronto Stock Exchange opens.
• November 10 – The Grand Trunk Railway Company is incorporated to build a railway between Toronto and Montreal.
• December 8 – Laval's Seminaire du Quebec founds Université Laval, North America's oldest French Language university.

Full date unknown

• The 1852 Newfoundland general election occurs.

Births

• January 1 – Alexander Bethune, politician and 12th Mayor of Vancouver (died 1947)
• March 22 – Theodore Davie, lawyer, politician and 9th Premier of British Columbia (died 1898)
• April 5 – Alexander Warburton, politician, jurist, author and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1929)
• August 19 – John Andrew Davidson, politician (died 1903)
• September 9 – Fletcher Bath Wade, politician and barrister (died 1905)
• September 24 – Joseph Martin, lawyer, politician and 13th Premier of British Columbia (died 1923)
• November 2 – Paul Tourigny, politician (died 1926)

Deaths

• April 3 – Alexander Rankin, timber merchant, justice of the peace, politician, and office holder (born 1788)
• November 3 – Francis Gore, colonial administrator (born 1769)

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