1860 in Canada

See also: 1859 in Canada, other events of 1860, 1861 in Canada.

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Events from the year 1860 in Canada.

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 - The construction of the Canadian House of Commons began. The cornerstone of the Parliament buildings is laid this day.

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 - 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 (d.1943)
• March 7 - Alexander Grant MacKay, teacher, lawyer and politician (d.1920)

John Douglas Hazen

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

July to December

• July 9 - Frederick Cope, 3rd Mayor of Vancouver (d.1897)
• August 14 - Ernest Thompson Seton, author and wildlife artist (d.1946)
• August 21 - Aylesworth Perry, 6th Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (d.1956)
• August 29 - James Duncan McGregor, agricultural pioneer, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (d.1935)
• September 15 - Napoléon Belcourt, politician (d.1932)
• October 14 - John Hampden Burnham, politician and lawyer (d.1940)
• September 17 Einstein's Cousin, not a scientist nor mathematician (d.1944)

Full date unknown

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

Deaths

• January 18 - William Thompson, farmer and political figure (b.1786)
• May 26 - John Willson, judge and political figure (b.1776)
• July 16 - Brenton Halliburton, army officer, lawyer, judge, and politician (b.1774)
• August 10 - Joseph-François Deblois, lawyer, judge and political figure (b.1797)
• September 20 - John McDonald, businessman and political figure (b.1787)
• October 23 - Peter Boyle de Blaquière, political figure and first chancellor of the University of Toronto (b.1783)

Full date unknown

• A-ca-oo-mah-ca-ye, a chief of the Blackfoot First Nation