1860 in Canada

Template:Year in Canada Template:History of Canada Events from the year 1860 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch — Victoria

Federal government

• Parliament — 6th

Governors

• Governor General of the Province of Canada — Edmund Walker Head
• Colonial Governor of Newfoundland — Alexander Bannerman
• Governor of New Brunswick — Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon
• Governor of Nova Scotia — George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby
• Governor of Prince Edward Island — Dominick Daly

Premiers

• Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada —
  • George-Étienne Cartier, Canada West Premier
  • Antoine-Aimé Dorion, Canada East Premier
• Premier of Newfoundland — John Kent
• Premier of New Brunswick — Samuel Leonard Tilley
• Premier of Nova Scotia — James William Johnston
• Premier of Prince Edward Island — Edward Palmer

Events

• February 20 – 205 killed when the SS Hungarian (Allan Line) is wrecked at Cape Sable, Nova Scotia.
• April 26 – The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada formed.
• May 8 – Roman Catholic Diocese of Chatham (later renamed Roman Catholic Diocese of Bathurst (Canada)) erected.
• August 25 – Montreal's Victoria Bridge opens.
• September 1 – 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 – Canada – created
• Free Methodist Church in Canada founded
• Two month tour of Canada by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales

Sport

• June 27 – 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 – Charles G.D. Roberts, poet and prose writer (died 1943)
• March 7 – Alexander Grant MacKay, teacher, lawyer and politician (died 1920)

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John Douglas Hazen

• May 31 – Henry Wise Wood, politician and president of the United Farmers of Alberta (died 1941)
• June 1 – Margaret Mick, prison guard, first female Canadian peace officer to be killed in the line of duty (died 1925)
• June 5 – John Douglas Hazen, politician and 12th Premier of New Brunswick (died 1937)
• June 18 – Laura Muntz Lyall, painter (died 1930)

July to December

• July 9 – Frederick Cope, 3rd Mayor of Vancouver (died 1897)
• August 14 – Ernest Thompson Seton, author and wildlife artist (died 1946)
• August 21 – Aylesworth Perry, 6th Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (died 1956)
• August 29 – James Duncan McGregor, agricultural pioneer, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (died 1935)
• September 2 – Georgina Fraser Newhall, author and the bardess of the Clan Fraser Society of Canada (died 1932)
• September 15 – Napoléon Belcourt, politician (died 1932)
• October 14 – John Hampden Burnham, politician and lawyer (died 1940)

Full date unknown

• Nazaire-Nicolas Olivier, lawyer and politician (died 1898)

Deaths

• January 18 – William Thompson, farmer and political figure (born 1786)
• May 26 – John Willson, judge and political figure (born 1776)
• July 16 – Brenton Halliburton, army officer, lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1774)
• August 10 – Joseph-François Deblois, lawyer, judge and political figure (born 1797)
• September 20 – John McDonald, businessman and political figure (born 1787)
• October 23 – 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

Historical documents

Escaped slave in Victoria allowed by court to remain, and local paper finds reaction in U.S.A. "blustering," "ridiculous" and "buncombe"

"Pernicious habit" - Letter to the editor (with excerpt from The Lancet) warns against young men and boys smoking