1851 in Canada
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Events from the year 1851 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
Premiers
- Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada â
- Robert Baldwin, Canada West Premier
- Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canada East Premier
- Premier of Nova Scotia â James Boyle Uniacke
- Premier of Prince Edward Island â John Holl
Events
- April 7 â The first Canadian postage stamps are printed.
- April 25 â Prince Edward Island wins responsible government.
- June â Harbor Commissioners deepen Lake St. Peter.
- July â The bloomer costume appears in Montreal.
- July 31 â Broad Provincial railway gauge is legislated in the Province of Canada,[2] creating a break-of-gauge with American railways.
- August 30 â The Vancouver Island legislature meets for the first time.
- October 11 â 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 â John Wilson Bengough, political cartoonist (died 1923)
- April 8 â Frederick Peters, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1919)
- May 22 â Gilbert Ganong, businessman, politician and Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (died 1917)
- July 8 â James Dunsmuir, industrialist, politician and Premier of British Columbia (died 1920)
- August 26 â Herbert James Palmer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1939)
- September 5 â George Frederick Baird, politician and lawyer (died 1899)
- November â Levi Addison Ault, businessman and naturalist (died 1930)
- November 28 â Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey, 9th Governor General of Canada (died 1917)
- December 10 â James Albert Manning Aikins, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (died 1929)