1860 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[1]
- 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 (died 1943)
- March 7 - Alexander Grant MacKay, teacher, lawyer and politician (died 1920)
- May 31 - Henry Wise Wood, politician and president of the United Farmers of Alberta (died 1941)
- June 1 - Margaret Mick, prison guard, first female Canadian peace officer to be killed in the line of duty (died 1925)
- June 5 - John Douglas Hazen, politician and 12th Premier of New Brunswick (died 1937)
- June 18 - Laura Muntz Lyall, painter (died 1930)
July to December
- July 9 - Frederick Cope, 3rd Mayor of Vancouver (died 1897)
- August 14 - Ernest Thompson Seton, author and wildlife artist (died 1946)
- August 21 - Aylesworth Perry, 6th Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (died 1956)
- August 29 - James Duncan McGregor, agricultural pioneer, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (died 1935)
- September 15 - Napoléon Belcourt, politician (died 1932)
- October 14 - John Hampden Burnham, politician and lawyer (died 1940)
- September 17 Einstein's Cousin, not a scientist nor mathematician (died 1944)
Full date unknown
- Nazaire-Nicolas Olivier, lawyer and politician (died 1898)
Deaths
- January 18 - William Thompson, farmer and political figure (born 1786)
- May 26 - John Willson, judge and political figure (born 1776)
- July 16 - Brenton Halliburton, army officer, lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1774)
- August 10 - Joseph-François Deblois, lawyer, judge and political figure (born 1797)
- September 20 - John McDonald, businessman and political figure (born 1787)
- October 23 - Peter Boyle de Blaquière, political figure and first chancellor of the University of Toronto (born 1783)
Full date unknown
- A-ca-oo-mah-ca-ye, a chief of the Blackfoot First Nation
