1864 in Canada
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Events from the year 1864 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
- Parliament â 8th
Governors
- Governor General of the Province of Canada â Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck
- Colonial Governor of Newfoundland â Anthony Musgrave
- Governor of New Brunswick â Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon
- Governor of Nova Scotia â Charles Hastings Doyle then Richard Graves MacDonnell then Sir William Fenwick Williams
- Governor of Prince Edward Island â George Dundas
Premiers
- Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada â
- John Alexander Macdonald, Canada West Premier
- Ãtienne-Paschal Taché, Canada East Premier
- Premier of Newfoundland â Hugh Hoyles
- Premiers of New Brunswick â Samuel Leonard Tilley
- Premiers of Nova Scotia â Charles Tupper
- Premier of Prince Edward Island â John Hamilton Gray
Events
- June 29 â St-Hilaire train disaster : A train of newly arrived immigrants fails to stop at the open swing span near Beloeil, Canada East. The Grand Trunk Railway train runs into the Richelieu River, killing 99.
- June 30 â Macdonald-Cartier "Great Coalition" government formed.
- July 18 â US Civil War: North-South negotiations begin at Niagara Falls, New York
- September 1 â September 9: Charlottetown Conference, noted as the first step towards Confederation[2]
- September 19 â Confederate agents use Canada as base for attempt to free Confederate prisoners of war on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie.
- October 10 â October 27: Quebec Conference,[3] identified 72 resolutions for the British North America Act, 1867
- October 19 â St. Albans Raid[4]
Births
- January 11 â Henry Marshall Tory,[5] Canadian university founder (died 1947)
- February 15[6] â Sir William Howard Hearst, politician and 7th Premier of Ontario (died 1941)
- March 31 â J. J. Kelso,[7] journalist and social activist (died 1935)
- July 27 â Ernest Howard Armstrong, journalist, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (died 1946)
- October 3 â William Robson, politician (died 1941)
- October 8 â Ozias Leduc,[8] painter (died 1955)
- November 9 â James Alexander Murray, politician and Premier of New Brunswick (died 1960)
- November 24[9] â John Wesley Brien, physician and politician (died 1949)
- December 14 â Henry Edgarton Allen, politician
Deaths
- February 20 â Rose Fortune,[10] entrepreneur (born 1774)
- February 26 â Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, politician (born 1807)
- April 29 â Abraham Pineo Gesner, physician and surgeon, geologist, and inventor (born 1797)