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trade agreement
malcolm cameron visits Washington D.C. to discuss trade agreement with the President -
railroads open
st lawrence and atlantic railoroads open -
Period: to
1850 to 1880
slaves aare pouring into Canada from the United States. -
slaves
slaves from the United States of America pour into Canada. -
first Canadian postage stamps are made
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P.E.I. wins responible government
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harbor commisoners deepen lake st peter
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bloomer costume arrives in Montreal
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legislature for the vancouver island meet for the first time
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the st. l & a railroad is open to Richmond
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Trinity college opens
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start of fires burn 11000 houses in Montreal
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Toronto stock exchange opens
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description for the bridge across the st lawrence river
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investigation of riots in Montreal continue
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the great western railroad connects Toronto Hamilton and Windsor
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establishment of the African Baptist Association of Nova Scotia
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Bytown is renamed Ottawa
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a bridge across the Niagra River is finished
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Charlottetown is established as a city
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Charlottetown police department is established
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Embrun Ontario is established
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The Grand Trunk Railway opens its Sarnia-Toronto-Montreal line.
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The piano manufacturer Heintzman & Co. is incorporated.
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Queen Victoria names Ottawa as capital of the Province of Canada.
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March 12 — The bridge over Desjardins Canal, near Hamilton, Canada West, collapses under a Great Western Railway passenger train. About 60 people die.
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Ottawa is chosen as the new capital of the Canadas
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The Frontenac County Court House opens.
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The Halifax-Truro line begins rail service
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Chinese, German, Norwegian, Jews, American, Irish, Latin American, French, Belgian Canadian and other immigrants who had been in the California goldfields arrive in British Columbia, attracted by the Fraser River Gold rush, joining French Canadians, Métis
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The Toronto Islands are created after a fierce storm detaches the island from the mainland at the Eastern gap.
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Abraham Shadd is elected to the town council in Raleigh, Ontario and becomes the first Black elected to public office
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William Hall, becomes the first Nova Scotian and the first Black to win the Victoria Cross.
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Montreal's Victoria Bridge opens
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- The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada formed
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The UK declares its neutrality in the American civil war
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Confederate diplomats taken from Trent released.
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The UK sends reinforcements to British North America.
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The UK demands release of Confederate diplomats taken from Trent.
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United Kingdom-United States treaty for suppression of African slave trade is signed
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Militia Pay Act for all males 18–60.
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A train of newly arrived immigrants fails to stop at the open swing span near Beloeil, Canada East. The Grand Trunk Railway train runs into the Richelieu River, killing 99.
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New Brunswick rejects a Confederation scheme
today my dad said that he had a surprise for me. then he handed me a musket rifle i was so happy i wanted to go out and shoot things -
i got my first rifle
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The piano manufacturer Heintzman & Co. is incorporated.
my dad loved playin the piano so when he heard that this company was started he was very happy -
John A. Macdonald marries his second wife Susan Agnes Bernard
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The Windsor Police Service is established
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The 1st Canadian Parliament meets
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my sister gets married
today my sister had her wedding there were lots of treats and my whole family was there -
my grandmother died
today when my dad came home from work he told me my grandma died. i was very sad i went to my room and stayed there for hours -
i go hunting
ive been hunting many times before but this time was the best. i shot a deer a rabbit a bird a beaverand a fox
