1862 in Canada
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Events from the year 1862 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
- Parliament â 7th
Governors
Premiers
- Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada â
- John A. Macdonald, Canada West Premier (until May 24)
- George-Ãtienne Cartier, Canada East Premier (until May 24)
- John Sandfield MacDonald, Canada West Premier
- Louis-Victor Sicotte, Canada East Premier
- Premier of Newfoundland â Hugh Hoyles
- Premier of New Brunswick â Samuel Leonard Tilley
- Premier of Nova Scotia â Joseph Howe
- Premier of Prince Edward Island â Edward Palmer
Events
- April 7 â United Kingdom-United States treaty for suppression of African slave trade is signed.[citation needed]
- May 20 â Macdonald-Cartier government falls. Free interprovincial trade granted by the Crown.
- August 2 â Victoria, British Columbia, is incorporated as a city
Full date unknown
- The first female student is accepted into Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick
- The 1862 Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic sweeps through Fort Victoria area and up the length of the northwest coast, killing an estimated 20,000 First Nations people
- William Duncan, an Anglican missionary on the northwest coast, establishes the village of Metlakatla with 50 Tsimshian followers, who adopt the Christian faith and a European lifestyle. By 1880, more than 1,000 converts live there.
- Construction begins on the Cariboo Wagon Road to link coastal shipping to Barkerville and the Cariboo goldfields.
Births
- January 9 â Joseph-Octave Samson, businessperson, politician and 28th Mayor of Quebec City (died 1945
- June 29 â William Johnston Tupper, politician, 12th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (died 1947)
- July 8 â Josephine White Bates, Canadian-born American author (died 1934)
Deaths
- August 8 â Allan MacNab, businessman, soldier, lawyer and politician (born 1798)
- August 18 â Simon Fraser, fur-trader and explorer (born 1776)