1848 in Canada
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Events from the year 1848 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
Premiers
- Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada â
- Henry Sherwood, Canada West Premier
- Canada East Premiership vacant from December 8, 1847
- Premier of Nova Scotia â James Boyle Uniacke
Events
- January 2 â Maple sugar is made in St. Anselme.
- January 15 â Wellington and Commissioners streets in Montreal are flooded.
- January 27 â Ploughing about Bathurst and Beckwith.
- March 4 â The so-called Great Ministry of Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine begins.
- May 15 â MP's vote themselves 50 pounds each for 25 days.
- July 5 â Run on the Savings Bank, Montreal, followed by re-deposit.
- September 20 â Opening of the Jesuits' College, Montreal.
full date unknown
- First telegraph lines in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
- 1848 Newfoundland general election
- Responsible government established in Nova Scotia and The Canadas.
Births
- January 19 â John Fitzwilliam Stairs, entrepreneur and statesman (died 1904)
- February 4 â James Brien, politician and physician (died 1907)
- February 24 â Grant Allen, science writer, author and novelist (died 1899)
- March 7 â Isidore-Noël Belleau, politician and lawyer (died 1936)
- March 24 â Honoré Beaugrand, journalist, politician, author and folklorist (died 1906)
- April 14 â James Walker, jurist
- April 23 â George Clift King, politician and 2 Mayor of Calgary (died 1935)
- May 20 â Joseph-Aldric Ouimet, politician (died 1916)
- July 18 â Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan, newspaper publisher (died 1938)
- October 23 â Joseph Tassé, politician (died 1895)
- November 24 â William Stevens Fielding, journalist, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (died 1929)
- December 21 â George Boyce, politician (died 1930)
Deaths
- February 1 â John Neilson, publisher, printer, bookseller, politician, farmer, and militia officer (born 1776)