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Events from the year 1856 in Canada.
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Incumbents
editFederal government
editGovernors
editPremiers
edit- Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada —
- Canada West Premier
- ,
- Canada East Premier
- Canada West Premier
British North America Colonies
edit- Colonial Governor of Newfoundland — Charles Henry Darling
- Premier of Newfoundland — Philip Francis Little
- Governor of Nova Scotia — John Gaspard Le Marchant
- Premier of Nova Scotia — William Young
- Governor of New Brunswick — John Manners-Sutton
- Premier of New Brunswick — Charles Fisher
- Governor of Prince Edward Island — Dominick Daly
- Premier of Prince Edward Island — John Holl
Events
edit- March 30 – The Crimean War, fought by British Empire, ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris.[2]
- May 15 – Creation of the village of Embrun, Ontario.
- October 27 – The two halves of the Grand Trunk Railway are joined with the construction of the Oshawa–Brockville section of the original mainline. Celebratory trains meet near the centre of the line at Kingston. The western terminus of the mainline is the east bank of the Don River.[3]
- Formation of the British Methodist Episcopal Church (BME), an all Black church.
- While surveying lands recently acquired by the Crown under the Robinson-Huron Treaty,[4] British land surveyor Albert Salter observes a significant magnetic anomaly near the future site of Creighton Mine in modern-day Northern Ontario. This is an early scientific observation of the vast mineral resources of the Sudbury Basin.[5]
Births
edit- May 16 – Charles Melville Hays, railway executive (died 1912)
- May 20 – Eliza Ritchie, feminist
- July 6 – Kate Simpson Hayes, playwright and legislative librarian (died 1945)
- July 31 – John Oliver, politician and Premier of British Columbia (died 1927)
Deaths
edit- December – Samuel Street Wilmot, surveyor, tanner, farmer, justice of the peace, and assemblyman in Upper Canada (b. 1773)
References
edit- ^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ^ "This month in history: The Crimean War and the 1856 Treaty of Paris". thegazette.co.uk. 5 March 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
- ^ Peltenburg, Adam. "Grand Trunk Railway". Toronto Railway Historical Association. Retrieved November 17, 2022.
- ^ Saarinen, Oiva W. (2013). From Meteorite Impact to Constellation City: A Historical Geography of Greater Sudbury. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-55458-837-4.
- ^ "Salter's Meridian 1856". Ontario Heritage Trust. Retrieved 5 August 2022.