1857 in Canada
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Events from the year 1857 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
- Parliament â 5th
Governors
Premiers
- Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada â
- [[]], Canada West Premier
- [[]], Canada East Premier
- [[]],
- Premier of Newfoundland â Philip Francis Little
- Premier of New Brunswick â Charles Fisher
- Premier of Nova Scotia â William Young
- Premier of Prince Edward Island â John Holl
Events
- March 12 â Desjardins Canal disaster - The bridge over Desjardins Canal, near Hamilton, Canada West, collapses under a Great Western Railway passenger train. About 60 people die.[2]
- Grand Trunk Railway (Windsor-Montreal) completed, but $7 million in debt.
- December 31 - Queen Victoria names Ottawa as capital of the Province of Canada.[3]
- The Palliser Expedition begins its exploration of Western Canada.[4]
Births
January to June
- February 2 â Alexander Cameron Rutherford, lawyer and politician, first premier of Alberta (died 1941)
- February 25 â Robert Bond, politician and Prime Minister of Newfoundland (died 1927)
- February 27 â Adelaide Hoodless, educational reformer who founded the Women's Institute (died 1910)
- March 17 â Willis Keith Baldwin, politician (died 1935)
- June 20 â Adam Beck, politician and hydro-electricity advocate (died 1925)
July to December
- July 27 â Ann Stowe-Gullen, doctor
- August 15 â Theodore Arthur Burrows, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (died 1929)
- August 15 â John Strathearn Hendrie, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (died 1923)
- September 12 â George Halsey Perley, politician and diplomat (died 1938)
- October 10 â Cassie Chadwick, fraudster (died 1907)
- October 10 â George Johnson Clarke, lawyer, journalist, politician and 14th Premier of New Brunswick (died 1917)
- November 25 â Frederick W. A. G. Haultain, politician and 1st Premier of the Northwest Territories (died 1942)
Deaths
- February 10 â David Thompson, fur trader, surveyor and map-maker (born 1770)
- March 13 â William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, diplomat and governor general (born 1773)
- September 3 â John McLoughlin, physician, fur trader, and merchant (born 1784)
- November 3 â 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)