1867 in Canada

See also: 1866 in Canada, other events of 1867, 1868 in Canada.

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Events from the year 1867 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch — Queen Victoria
• Prime Minister — John A. Macdonald
• Premier of New Brunswick — Andrew R. Wetmore replaced by Peter Mitchell
• Premier of Nova Scotia — Charles Tupper replaced by Hiram Blanchard replaced by William Annand
• Premier of Ontario — John Sandfield Macdonald
• Premier of Quebec — Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau

Events

• February 16—John A. Macdonald marries his second wife Susan Agnes Bernard
• 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 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

Full date unknown

• Andrew R. Wetmore becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Peter Mitchell
• The 1867 Quebec election
• The Parliamentary Press Gallery is established

Births

• January 25 — Simon Fraser Tolmie, politician and 21st Premier of British Columbia (d.1937)
• February 2 — Charles E. Saunders, agronomist (d.1937)
• February 7 — John Livingstone Brown, politician (d.1953)
• February 20 — Flora Denison, feminist
• March 5 — Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, politician and 14th Premier of Quebec (d.1952)
• March 31 — Noah Timmins, mining developer and executive (d.1936)
• October 19 — Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie, feminist and social activist (d.1945)
• October 27 — Thomas Walter Scott, Politician and first Premier of Saskatchewan (d.1938)
• November 1 — Newton Rowell, lawyer and politician (d.1941)
• December 3 — William John Bowser, politician and Premier of British Columbia (d.1933)

Deaths

Samuel Harrison

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