1867 in Canada
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Events from the year 1867 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
January to June
Governors
Premiers
July to December
Federal government
- Governor General â Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck
- Prime Minister â John A. Macdonald (from July 1)
- Parliament â 1st (from November 6)
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick â Charles Hastings Doyle (until October 18) then Francis Pym Harding
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia â Sir William Fenwick Williams (until October 18) then Charles Hastings Doyle
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario â Henry William Stisted
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec â Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau
Premiers
- Premier of New Brunswick â Andrew Rainsford Wetmore (from August 16)
- Premier of Nova Scotia â Hiram Blanchard (July 4 â September 30) then William Annand (from November 4)
- Premier of Ontario â John Sandfield Macdonald (from July 16)
- Premier of Quebec â Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (from July 15)
Events
- February 16 â John A. Macdonald marries his second wife Susan Agnes Bernard.[2]
- March 29 â Queen Victoria gives royal assent to the British North America Act, 1867.[3]
- July 1
- The Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick are united into the single country of Canada by the British North America Act.[4]
- Sir John A. Macdonald becomes the first prime minister of Canada.
- The Windsor Police Service is established.
- July 4 â Hiram Blanchard becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Charles Tupper.
- July 15 â Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau becomes the first premier of Quebec.
- July 16 â J. S. Macdonald becomes the first premier of Ontario.
- August 7 â September 20 â The 1867 Canadian election sees John A. Macdonald's Conservatives elected as government.
- September 3 â The 1867 Ontario election: J. S. Macdonald Liberal-Conservatives win a minority.
- September 18 â The 1867 Nova Scotia election
- November 6 â The 1st Canadian Parliament meets.
- November 7 â William Annand becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Hiram Blanchard.
- December 7 â The first federal budget is presented by Finance Minister John Rose.[5]
Full date unknown
- Andrew R. Wetmore becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Peter Mitchell.
- The 1867 Quebec election
- The Parliamentary Press Gallery is established.
- Fall: Henry Seth Taylor steam buggy debuts at the Stanstead Fall Fair in Quebec, believed to be Canada's first car.
Births
- January 25 â Simon Fraser Tolmie, politician and 21st Premier of British Columbia (died 1937)
- February 2 â Charles E. Saunders, agronomist (died 1937)
- February 7 â John Livingstone Brown, politician (died 1953)
- February 20 â Flora Denison, feminist
- March 5 â Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, politician and 14th Premier of Quebec (died 1952)
- March 31 â Noah Timmins, mining developer and executive (died 1936)
- June 30 â Napoléon Turcot, politician (died 1939)
- August 9 â Charles Ballantyne, politician (died 1950)
- October 19 â Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie, feminist and social activist (died 1945)
- October 27 â Thomas Walter Scott, Politician and first Premier of Saskatchewan (died 1938)
- November 1 â Newton Rowell, lawyer and politician (died 1941)
- December 3 â William John Bowser, politician and Premier of British Columbia (died 1933)
Deaths
- July 23 â Samuel Harrison, farmer, lawyer, mill owner, politician, judge and 1st Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada (born 1802)
- August 25 â Pierre-Flavien Turgeon, Archbishop of Quebec (born 1787)
- September 7 â Jesse Ketchum, tanner, politician, and philanthropist (born 1782)
- November 1 â John Strachan, first Anglican Bishop of Toronto (born 1778)
- December 10 â Edward Whelan, journalist and politician (born 1824)
