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The Life in the 1800's
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Railway to Longueuil Opens
The St Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad was opened today running from Longueuil to Richmond, Québec. -
First Canadian Stamps
The first Canadian postage stamps were issued today: a Twelve-Pence Black, showing Queen Victoria at the age of 19, a Three-Pence Beaver and a Six-Pence Prince Consort, which carried a portrait of Prince Albert. -
Census
The census happened today it estimated the population of Canada East as 890 261 and Canada West as 952 000. -
The Switch
Today Britain transfered the colonial postal servie to Canada. It was all over the place. Newsboy were sprending the news everywhere. -
Trinity College Opened
Hooray Toronto's Trinity College opened today -
The Oldest French University in America
The news travel pretty fast soon Bytown had discovered that Laval's Séminaire du Québec founds Université Laval. -
First Locomotive Built in Canada
The Toronto Locomotive Works completed the "Toronto", the first locomotive built in Canada.The test run should happen soon. -
Globe Issued as Daily
The Toronto Globe was first issued today as a daily newspaper. -
Great Western Railway Opens
The Great Western Railway opened its main line between London and Windsor, Ont. -
Heroine of Long Point
During a vicious storm on Lake Erie, the schooner Conductor foundered. The crew clung to the frozen rigging all night. Next morning Abigail Becker waded shoulder-high into the surf and cajoled the men ashore. -
Bridge Over Niagara
The suspension bridge across the Niagara River was opened, at Niagara Falls this morning. -
The new name
The city that i used to live in Bytown was rename Ottawa. -
First oil dug
i would like to congratulate my dear friend James Miller Williams of Hamilton for dugging up the first commercial oil well in North America in Enniskillen Township, Ont. -
A new general store
Another one of my friends Timothy Eaton opens his first general store, in Kirkton, Ontario. Thirteen years later he opens a store at the corner of Queen and Yonge in Toronto. -
The Grand Trunk Railway
Guess what happened today? The Grand Trunk Railway opened connecting Toronto and Montreal. -
The new Capital
The capital of the Province of Canada changed today. Queen Victoria designates Ottawa as capital. -
My New Job
I got a job in the news office as Editor. -
The first coin minted
the first Canadian coins were minted: silver 5-cent, 10-cent and 20-cent pieces and bronze pennies. -
McGowan's war
Another brawl is taking place, but this one was a bloodless war it took place in Yale, British Columbia in the fall of 1858. The conflict posed a threat to the newly established British authority on the British Columbia mainland which had just established the summer before. -
The Fraser Canyon Gold Rush
The Fraser Canyon Gold Rush began in 1858 when i discovered gold in the Thompson River in British Columbia at its gathering with the Nicoamen River. This was a few miles upstream from the Thompson's meeting with the Fraser River -
Fraser Canyon War
Sigh more battling today. Some rumor is going around saying that a young women in the aboriginal tribes got raped by a french. So the aboriginal declared war on the french. -
The Pig and Potato War
A confrontation in 1859 between the United States and the British Empire is over the boundary between the US and British North America again. In my life every war is about boundary or rebels. -
First Female Chinese Citizen
I never knew i Chinese women could become a Canadian Citizen. But when i saw this "Chinese to Canadian" is bold letters i read on. So the wife of merchant Kwong Lee arrived in Victoria, BC. She became Canada's first female Chinese citizen. -
The Cornerstone of the Parliament Building is laid
On September 1, 1860, the streeets were crowded with people. Everything was ready for the great event. The streets were decked with triumphal arches made of lilies, and logs. A pavilion had been prepared on Parliament Hill. The framework that held the cornerstone was decorated with Gothic arches, a crown of fleurs-de-lys and British flags -
Nova Scotia's Premier
Even though i don't live in Nova Scotia but news came fast. Joesph Howe became the premier of Nova Scotia. -
St Lawrence River Flood
The St Lawrence River flooded, inundating Montréal. -
Trent's Incidenet
Holy Moly, The American warship San Jacinto stopped the British steamer Trent in the Bahamas Channel and seized two Confederate agents; this incident brought Britain and the US to the brink of war. -
First Female Student
pretty interesting to find this in the new "Mount Allison University accepts the first woman student in Sackville, N.B." -
Gold!!!
Billy Barker strikes gold on Williams Creek in the Caribou country of British Columbia. -
Sicotte- Macdonald defeated
The Sicotte-Sandfield Macdonald ministry was defeated in the Assembly of the Province of Canada after only a year in power. -
the Chesapeake Affair
Sixteen Confederates seized the American coastal steamer Chesapeake off Cape Cod and diverted it to Saint John, NB. -
The Charlottetown Conference
Even though i'm not in the conference but i still know a little about it, being a newsman. The Charlottetown Conference takes the first steps toward Confederation. -
Québec Conference
This conference i was there on site, and be a reporter. The Québec Conference identifies the seventy-two resolutions that set out the basis for union. -
First Soda Pulp Mill
The first soda pulp mill, which dispersed wood chips in a solution of caustic soda, was built at Windsor Mills, Québec -
First Rugby Game in Canada
The first Canadian game of rugby took place in 1865 in Montreal when English regiment officers and civilians, mainly from McGill University, engaged in competition. -
Battle of Ridgeway
Battle of Ridgeway was the height of the biggest Fenian raid into Canada. -
Combined
The Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia are combined into one colony named British Columbia. -
The London Conference
Canadians Nova Scotians and New brunswick meet in London England with the British Government. The results guarantees a separate school system, in Quebec and Ontario, but not Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. -
Dominion of Canada
British North America Act unites Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the Dominion of Canada. Today Ottawa offically became the capital of Dominion. John A. Macdonald became the first prime minister of Canada. -
Assassinated!!!
the famous Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the fathers of Confederation, had outspoken enemy of the Fenians, and became Canada's first assassination victim at the hands of a Fenian. -
The first football game
The Montreal Football Club has formed, playing a Canadian variety of rugby football. It was Canada's first organized football team. -
Birth of William Parks
My best friend geologist William Parks, who was one of the founders and original directors of the Royal Ontario Museum, was born at Hamilton, Ont. on December 11, 1868. -
The First Montreal Star Newspaper
The first issue of the Montreal Star was published today. -
Another Government???
Riel establishes a legal provisional government in Rupert's Land. -
Give and Go
Today Canada purchases Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company. -
no more bison??????
Lots of people are demanding for leather goods leading to the destruction of northen bison herds, which in turn leads to the collapse of the western native economy. -
The Treaty of Washington
By the Treaty of Washington, now Americans were granted the right to fish in Canadian waters, the use of Canadian canals and the St Lawrence River; -
New Brunswick Schools
The New Brunswick government passed the Common Schools Act to strengthen and reform the school system. At the same time, it abandoned an informal system of separate schools that had grown up since the 1850s. -
the new member
British Columbia joined the Confederation. -
The Toronto Mail
The first issue of the Toronto Mail was published. -
The 9 hour day march
Demand for a 9-hour day began on a march in Hamilton, Ont, and spread across Canada, the first unified labour protest in Canada. -
The next one on the list
P. E. I. joined the confederation -
Sit Down Macdonald
John A. Macdonald gives up the prime minister seat over the Pacific Scandal. -
The 2nd prime minister
The next prime minister is Alexander Mackenzie, a Liberal. -
The telephone
My Brother's neighbor Alexander Graham Bell discloses the invention of the telephone to his father at the family home on the outskirts of Brantford, Ontario -
Test Run
Bell's first functioning telephone is demonstrated in Boston. -
The Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of Canada is established. -
Connection of Canada
The Intercolonial Railway, growing out of the Halifax-Truro line, and linked central Canada and the Maritimes. -
The first long distance call
it was World's first long-distance phone call connecting the Bell residence with a shoe and boot store in nearby Paris, Ontario. -
Longest standing school in western Canada
Today the provincial legislature creates the University of Manitoba. -
No Chinese Workers
The Conservatives under Macdonald won federal election. Anti- Chinese attitudes in British Columbia reaches a high point so the government banned all Chinese workers from public works. -
Time Zones
Sandford Fleming proposes the idea of standard time. -
Macdonald make improvements
Today Sir John A. Macdonald introduces protective prices, a transcontinental railway, and immigration to the west in his National Policy.
