canada history

By TylerRulzz

  • 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

  • P.E.I. wins responible government

  • harbor commisoners deepen lake st peter

  • bloomer costume arrives in Montreal

  • legislature for the vancouver island meet for the first time

  • the st. l & a railroad is open to Richmond

  • Trinity college opens

  • start of fires burn 11000 houses in Montreal

  • Toronto stock exchange opens

  • description for the bridge across the st lawrence river

  • investigation of riots in Montreal continue

  • the great western railroad connects Toronto Hamilton and Windsor

  • establishment of the African Baptist Association of Nova Scotia

  • Bytown is renamed Ottawa

  • a bridge across the Niagra River is finished

  • Charlottetown is established as a city

  • Charlottetown police department is established

  • Embrun Ontario is established

  • The Grand Trunk Railway opens its Sarnia-Toronto-Montreal line.

  • The piano manufacturer Heintzman & Co. is incorporated.

  • Queen Victoria names Ottawa as capital of the Province of Canada.

  • March 12 — The bridge over Desjardins Canal, near Hamilton, Canada West, collapses under a Great Western Railway passenger train. About 60 people die.

  • Ottawa is chosen as the new capital of the Canadas

  • The Frontenac County Court House opens.

  • The Halifax-Truro line begins rail service

  • 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

  • The Toronto Islands are created after a fierce storm detaches the island from the mainland at the Eastern gap.

  • Abraham Shadd is elected to the town council in Raleigh, Ontario and becomes the first Black elected to public office

  • William Hall, becomes the first Nova Scotian and the first Black to win the Victoria Cross.

  • Montreal's Victoria Bridge opens

  • - The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada formed

  • The UK declares its neutrality in the American civil war

  • Confederate diplomats taken from Trent released.

  • The UK sends reinforcements to British North America.

  • The UK demands release of Confederate diplomats taken from Trent.

  • United Kingdom-United States treaty for suppression of African slave trade is signed

  • Militia Pay Act for all males 18–60.

  • 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.

  • 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

    i got my first rifle

  • 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

  • The Windsor Police Service is established

  • The 1st Canadian Parliament meets

  • 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