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1857 in Canada
Events from the year
1857 in Canada
.
Incumbents
Monarch âÂÂ
Victoria
Federal government
Parliament
âÂÂ
5th
Governors
Governor General of the Province of Canada
âÂÂ
Edmund Walker Head
Colonial Governor of Newfoundland
âÂÂ
Charles Henry Darling
Governor of New Brunswick
âÂÂ
John Manners-Sutton
Governor of Nova Scotia
âÂÂ
John Gaspard Le Marchant
Governor of Prince Edward Island
âÂÂ
Dominick Daly
Premiers
Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada
âÂÂ
, Canada West Premier
, Canada East Premier
,
Premier of Newfoundland
âÂÂ
Philip Francis Little
Premier of New Brunswick
âÂÂ
Charles Fisher
Premier of Nova Scotia
âÂÂ
William Young
Premier of Prince Edward Island
âÂÂ
John Holl
Events
March 12 âÂÂ
Desjardins Canal disaster
- The bridge over
Desjardins Canal
, near
Hamilton, Canada West
, collapses under a
Great Western Railway
passenger train. About 60 people die.
Grand Trunk Railway
(
Windsor
-
Montreal
) completed, but $7 million in debt.
December 31 -
Queen Victoria
names
Ottawa
as capital of the
Province of Canada
.
The
Palliser Expedition
begins its exploration of Western Canada.
Births
January to June
February 2 âÂÂ
Alexander Cameron Rutherford
, lawyer and politician, first premier of
Alberta
(died
1941
)
February 25 âÂÂ
Robert Bond
, politician and Prime Minister of
Newfoundland
(died
1927
)
February 27 âÂÂ
Adelaide Hoodless
, educational reformer who founded the
Women's Institute
(died
1910
)
March 17 âÂÂ
Willis Keith Baldwin
, politician (died
1935
)
June 20 âÂÂ
Adam Beck
, politician and hydro-electricity advocate (died
1925
)
July to December
July 27 âÂÂ
Ann Stowe-Gullen
, doctor
August 15 âÂÂ
Theodore Arthur Burrows
, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of
Manitoba
(died
1929
)
August 15 âÂÂ
John Strathearn Hendrie
,
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
(died
1923
)
September 12 âÂÂ
George Halsey Perley
, politician and diplomat (died
1938
)
October 10 âÂÂ
Cassie Chadwick
, fraudster (died
1907
)
October 10 âÂÂ
George Johnson Clarke
, lawyer, journalist, politician and 14th
Premier of New Brunswick
(died
1917
)
November 25 âÂÂ
Frederick W. A. G. Haultain
, politician and 1st Premier of the
Northwest Territories
(died
1942
)
Deaths
February 10 âÂÂ
David Thompson
, fur trader, surveyor and map-maker (born
1770
)
March 13 âÂÂ
William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst
, diplomat and governor general (born
1773
)
September 3 âÂÂ
John McLoughlin
, physician, fur trader, and merchant (born
1784
)
November 3 âÂÂ
William Fitzwilliam Owen
, naval officer, hydrographic surveyor (born
1774
)
Full date unknown
Isabella Clark
, first wife of
John A. Macdonald
, premier of the
Province of Canada
(born
1811
)
References