1867 in Canada

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Events from the year 1867 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

Monarch – Victoria^[1]

January to June

Governors

Premiers

July to December

Federal government

Governor General – Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck
Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald (from July 1)
Parliament – 1st (from November 6)

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Charles Hastings Doyle (until October 18) then Francis Pym Harding
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Sir William Fenwick Williams (until October 18) then Charles Hastings Doyle
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Henry William Stisted
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau

Premiers

Premier of New Brunswick – Andrew Rainsford Wetmore (from August 16)
Premier of Nova Scotia – Hiram Blanchard (July 4 – September 30) then William Annand (from November 4)
Premier of Ontario – John Sandfield Macdonald (from July 16)
Premier of Quebec – Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (from July 15)

Events

February 16 – John A. Macdonald marries his second wife Susan Agnes Bernard.^[2]
March 29 – Queen Victoria gives royal assent to the British North America Act, 1867.
July 1 – The Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick are united into the Dominion of Canada by the British North America Act.
July 1 – Sir John A. Macdonald becomes the first prime minister of the Dominion of Canada.
July 1 – The Windsor Police Service is established.
July 4 – Hiram Blanchard becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Charles Tupper.
July 15 – Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau becomes the first premier of Quebec.
July 16 – J. S. Macdonald becomes the first premier of Ontario.
August 7 – September 20 – The 1867 Canadian election sees John A. Macdonald's Conservatives elected as government.
September 3 – The 1867 Ontario election: J. S. Macdonald Liberal-Conservatives win a minority.
September 18 – The 1867 Nova Scotia election
November 6 – The 1st Canadian Parliament meets.
November 7 – William Annand becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Hiram Blanchard.
December 7 – The first federal budget is presented by Finance Minister John Rose.^[3]

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 – Simon Fraser Tolmie, politician and 21st Premier of British Columbia (died 1937)
February 2 – Charles E. Saunders, agronomist (died 1937)
February 7 – John Livingstone Brown, politician (died 1953)
February 20 – Flora Denison, feminist
March 5 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, politician and 14th Premier of Quebec (died 1952)
March 31 – Noah Timmins, mining developer and executive (died 1936)
June 30 – Napoléon Turcot, politician (died 1939)
August 9 – Charles Ballantyne, politician (died 1950)
October 19 – Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie, feminist and social activist (died 1945)
October 27 – Thomas Walter Scott, Politician and first Premier of Saskatchewan (died 1938)
November 1 – Newton Rowell, lawyer and politician (died 1941)
December 3 – William John Bowser, politician and Premier of British Columbia (died 1933)

Deaths

Samuel Harrison

July 23 – Samuel Harrison, farmer, lawyer, mill owner, politician, judge and 1st Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada (born 1802)
August 25 – Pierre-Flavien Turgeon, Archbishop of Quebec (born 1787)
September 7 – Jesse Ketchum, tanner, politician, and philanthropist (born 1782)
November 1 – John Strachan, first Anglican Bishop of Toronto (born 1778)
December 10 – Edward Whelan, journalist and politician (born 1824)

Historical documents

British House of Commons debates Confederation ^[4]

In first Speech from the Throne, Governor General Monck lists legislative agenda, including eastern railway and western expansion^[5]

Thomas D'Arcy McGee lectures on the state of cultural development in Canada ^[6]

Court validates a "country marriage," allowing a Metis man to inherit ^[7]

Report on Anglican mission work among and by Indigenous people in Rupert's Land^[8]

Photo: St. Regis Lacrosse Club^[9]

References

^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
^ "The Prime Ministers of Canada – John A. Macdonald Quickfacts". Archived from the original on 2007-04-15. Retrieved 2006-11-25.
^ "Archived – Budget 2010 – The Budget Process". Department of Finance Canada. Retrieved 2012-04-08.
^ "Imperial Parliament, House of Commons, Federation of American Colonies, February 28" The (Auckland, N.Z.) Daily Southern Cross, Vol. XXIII, No. 3,076 (May 27, 1867), pg. 6. Accessed 9 September 2018 (See also John A. Macdonald's comment that British foreign minister objected to "Kingdom" of Canada term in draft bill)
^ "His Excellency the Governor General" Minutes of Proceedings of the Senate of the Dominion of Canada (November 7, 1867), pgs. 8-9. (See 1877 map of Intercolonial Railway and modern Territorial Evolution maps) Accessed 27 November 2021
^ Thomas D'Arcy McGee, "The Mental Outfit of the New Dominion" The (Montreal) Gazette, November 5, 1867. Accessed 9 September 2018
^ John Connolly, plaintiff vs. Julia Woolrich, defendant and Thomas R. Johnson, et al., executors and defendants par reprise d'instance Superior Court, Montreal (1867). Accessed 9 September 2018
^ Right Rev. Robert Machray, Diocese of Rupert's Land, Church of England, Report of the Second Conference of Clergy and Lay-Delegates from Parishes in the Diocese of Rupert's Land (1867), pgs. 21-3. Accessed 9 September 2018
^ William Notman, "St. Regis Lacrosse Club" (1867), McCord Museum. Accessed 18 May 2022

[1] "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.

[2] "The Prime Ministers of Canada – John A. Macdonald Quickfacts". Archived from the original on 2007-04-15. Retrieved 2006-11-25.

[3] "Archived – Budget 2010 – The Budget Process". Department of Finance Canada. Retrieved 2012-04-08.

[4] "Imperial Parliament, House of Commons, Federation of American Colonies, February 28" The (Auckland, N.Z.) Daily Southern Cross, Vol. XXIII, No. 3,076 (May 27, 1867), pg. 6. Accessed 9 September 2018 (See also John A. Macdonald's comment that British foreign minister objected to "Kingdom" of Canada term in draft bill)

[5] "His Excellency the Governor General" Minutes of Proceedings of the Senate of the Dominion of Canada (November 7, 1867), pgs. 8-9. (See 1877 map of Intercolonial Railway and modern Territorial Evolution maps) Accessed 27 November 2021

[6] Thomas D'Arcy McGee, "The Mental Outfit of the New Dominion" The (Montreal) Gazette, November 5, 1867. Accessed 9 September 2018

[7] John Connolly, plaintiff vs. Julia Woolrich, defendant and Thomas R. Johnson, et al., executors and defendants par reprise d'instance Superior Court, Montreal (1867). Accessed 9 September 2018

[8] Right Rev. Robert Machray, Diocese of Rupert's Land, Church of England, Report of the Second Conference of Clergy and Lay-Delegates from Parishes in the Diocese of Rupert's Land (1867), pgs. 21-3. Accessed 9 September 2018

[9] William Notman, "St. Regis Lacrosse Club" (1867), McCord Museum. Accessed 18 May 2022

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