1860 in Canada
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Events from the year 1860 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
- Parliament â 6th
Governors
- Governor General of the Province of Canada â Edmund Walker Head
- Colonial Governor of Newfoundland â Alexander Bannerman
- Governor of New Brunswick â Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon
- Governor of Nova Scotia â George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby
- Governor of Prince Edward Island â Dominick Daly
Premiers
- Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada â
- George-Ãtienne Cartier, Canada West Premier
- Antoine-Aimé Dorion, Canada East Premier
- Premier of Newfoundland â John Kent
- Premier of New Brunswick â Samuel Leonard Tilley
- Premier of Nova Scotia â James William Johnston
- Premier of Prince Edward Island â Edward Palmer
Events
- February 20 â 205 killed when the SS Hungarian (Allan Line) is wrecked at Cape Sable, Nova Scotia.[2]
- April 26 â The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada formed.
- May 8 â Roman Catholic Diocese of Chatham (later renamed Roman Catholic Diocese of Bathurst (Canada)) erected.
- August 25 â Montreal's Victoria Bridge opens.
- September 1 â In Ottawa, the cornerstone of the Centre Block building is laid by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, signalling the beginning of the building of the Parliament of Canada buildings.
Full date unknown
- Chalon head postage stamp issued in New Brunswick
- First ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Church of Canada â Canada â created
- Free Methodist Church in Canada founded
- Two month tour of Canada by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
Sport
- June 27 â Don Juan won the first Queen's Plate race is held in Toronto.
- Fred Lillywhite's The English Cricketers' Trip to Canada and the United States published, detailing the 1859 Tour of the US and Canada
Births
January to June
- January 10 â Charles G.D. Roberts, poet and prose writer (died 1943)
- March 7 â Alexander Grant MacKay, teacher, lawyer and politician (died 1920)
- May 31 â Henry Wise Wood, politician and president of the United Farmers of Alberta (died 1941)
- June 1 â Margaret Mick, prison guard, first female Canadian peace officer to be killed in the line of duty (died 1925)
- June 5 â John Douglas Hazen, politician and 12th Premier of New Brunswick (died 1937)
- June 18 â Laura Muntz Lyall, painter (died 1930)
July to December
- July 9 â Frederick Cope, 3rd Mayor of Vancouver (died 1897)
- August 14 â Ernest Thompson Seton, author and wildlife artist (died 1946)
- August 21 â Aylesworth Perry, 6th Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (died 1956)
- August 29 â James Duncan McGregor, agricultural pioneer, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (died 1935)
- September 2 â Georgina Fraser Newhall, author and the bardess of the Clan Fraser Society of Canada (died 1932)
- September 15 â Napoléon Belcourt, politician (died 1932)
- October 14 â John Hampden Burnham, politician and lawyer (died 1940)
Full date unknown
- Nazaire-Nicolas Olivier, lawyer and politician (died 1898)
Deaths
- January 18 â William Thompson, farmer and political figure (born 1786)
- May 26 â John Willson, judge and political figure (born 1776)
- July 16 â Brenton Halliburton, army officer, lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1774)
- August 10 â Joseph-François Deblois, lawyer, judge and political figure (born 1797)
- September 20 â John McDonald, businessman and political figure (born 1787)
- October 23 â Peter Boyle de Blaquière, political figure and first chancellor of the University of Toronto (born 1783)
Full date unknown
- A-ca-oo-mah-ca-ye, a chief of the Blackfoot First Nation