1862 in Canada

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Events from the year 1862 in Canada.

Incumbents

April 7 – United Kingdom-United States treaty for suppression of African slave trade is signed.^{[citation needed]}
May 20 – Macdonald-Cartier government falls. Free interprovincial trade granted by the Crown.
August 2 – Victoria, British Columbia, is incorporated as a city

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.

August 8 – Allan MacNab, businessman, soldier, lawyer and politician (born 1798)
August 18 – Simon Fraser, fur-trader and explorer (born 1776)

Published letter describes Fraser River riches in the Cariboo Gold Rush^[2]

Map of British Columbia gold regions, including "Routes of Communication with the Cariboo Mines"^[3]

Settling Indigenous people near Winnipeg is opposed by residents in published letter^[4]

^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
^ "The Gold Diggings of British Columbia" Illustrated London News (March 29, 1862). Accessed 6 September 2021
^ Gust. Epner, "Map of the Gold Regions in British Columbia" (1862), UBC Library. Accessed 24 October 2021
^ "Settling Indians in St. Paul's Parish" The Nor'-Wester, Vol. III, No. 11 (June 11, 1862), pg. 1. Accessed 6 September 2021.