-
William Howard West, polotian and 7th Premier of Ontario (died 1941)
-
Rose Fortune, entrepreneur (born 1774)
-
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, politician (born 1807)
-
Abraham Pineo Gesner, physician and surgeon, geologist, and inventor (born 1797)
-
a train of newly arrived immagrants fails to stop at the opening swingspan near Beliol, Canada east. the grand trunk railway runs into Richelieu River killing 99
-
Macdonald-Cartier "Great Coalartion" government formed
-
North-South negotiations begin at Niagara Falls, New York
-
Confederate agents use Canada as base for attempt to free Confederate prisoners of war on Johnson Island in Lake Erie.
-
Ozais Leduc, painter (died 1955)
-
William Robson, polotitian (died 1941)
-
St. Albans Raid.
-
James Alexander Murray, politician and Premier of New Brunswick (died 1960)
-
John Wesley Brien, physician and politician (died 1949)
-
Henry Edgarton Allen, politician
-
January 7 - Lyman Duff, jurist and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (died 1955)
-
January 16 - Joseph Cunard, merchant, shipbuilder and politician (born 1799)
-
Legislature approves message to Crown for union of British North America provinces.
-
February 10 - Richard Gardiner Willis, politician (died 1929)
-
The Legislature of the Province of Canada passes a motion in favour of Confederation
-
February 28 - Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary (died 1940)
-
New Brunswick rejects a Confederation scheme.
-
March 15 - Edith Maude Eaton, author (died 1914)
-
Macdonald, Brown, Cartier, Galt appointed to negotiate Confederation in London.
-
April 10 - Jack Miner, conservationist (died 1944)
-
An admiralty letter to the Colonial Office required colonial warships to "wear a Union Jack in the usual place, and the White Ensign, with either the Arms of the Colony, or such other distinguishing mark as may be chosen by the Colony, and approved by the Colonial Office and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty". This regulation was mainly directed at Australia and not applicable to Canada, which had no Navy at that time.
-
Louis-Victor Sicotte, Canada East Premier until May 15, 1863
-
May 31 - Clarence Chant, astronomer and physicist (died 1956)
-
July 27 - Augustin-Norbert Morin, lawyer, judge, politician and Joint Premier of the Province of Canada (born 1803)
-
July 30 - Étienne-Paschal Taché, doctor, politician, and deputy adjutant-general of the militia (born 1795)
-
August 10 - James Wilson Morrice, painter (died 1924)
-
August 27 - Thomas Chandler Haliburton, author, judge and politician (born 1796)
-
Proclamation of Ottawa as seat of government.
-
Newfoundland general election, 1865
-
November 17 - John Stanley Plaskett, astronomer (died 1941)
-
December 16 - A distinctive Blue Ensign for the province of Canada is authorized by the UK secretary of state for the colonies.
-
Colonial Office Circular notifying revised Admiralty requirements for flags for colonial warships and for other colonial government vessels and requesting correct drawings of seals or badges to be adopted as distinguishing marks.
-
December 25 - James Breakey, politician (died 1952)
