1861 in Canada

1861 in Canada

"See also:"
1860 in Canada,
other events of 1861,
1862 in Canada and the
list of 'years in Canada'----

Events

*April 14 - A major flood hits Montreal
*April 15 - Nova Scotia: resolution for provincial union by Joseph Howe for referral to the other British North American provinces in July.
*May 13 - The UK declares its neutrality in American Civil War.
*June 1 - The UK bans naval craft or privateers of American belligerents from carrying prizes into British ports or territorial waters.
*November 8 - The Trent Affair: British packet steamer Trent stopped by Northern warship in international waters. Two Confederate diplomats taken off and imprisoned in Boston.
*November 28 - Viscount Monck becomes Governor-General.
*December 3 - The UK sends reinforcements to British North America.
*December 23 - The UK demands release of Confederate diplomats taken from Trent.
*December 26 - Confederate diplomats taken from Trent released.
*Joseph Howe became Premier of Nova Scotia
*Dr. Anderson Ruffin Abbott becomes the first Canadian Born Black to graduate from medical school.
*The Cariboo Gold Rush starts in British Columbia.

Births

*January 15 - Joseph-Mathias Tellier, Quebec premier
*March 10 - E. Pauline Johnson, poet
*March 10 - Clifford Sifton, politician
*March 19 - Lomer Gouin, politician
*March 20 - Herménégilde Boulay, politician
*April 13 - Margaret Saunders, artist
*April 15 - Bliss Carman, poet
*June 7 - George H. Murray, Premier of Nova Scotia
*July 11 - John Best, politician
*September 5 - Tobias C. Norris, Premier of Manitoba
*September 18 - Ella Cora Hind, journalist
*September 19 - Charles Ernest Gault, Quebec politician
*October 31 - James Bowman, politician
*November 4 - Raoul Dandurand, politician
*November 6 - James Naismith, inventor of basketball
*November 17 - Archibald Lampman, poet
*December 22 - Sara Jeannette Duncan, journalist

Deaths


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