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birth
William Howard West, polotian and 7th Premier of Ontario (died 1941) -
death
Rose Fortune, entrepreneur (born 1774) -
death
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, politician (born 1807) -
death
Abraham Pineo Gesner, physician and surgeon, geologist, and inventor (born 1797) -
train wreak
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 -
government formed
Macdonald-Cartier "Great Coalartion" government formed -
negotiations
North-South negotiations begin at Niagara Falls, New York -
attempt to free Confederate prisoners
Confederate agents use Canada as base for attempt to free Confederate prisoners of war on Johnson Island in Lake Erie. -
birth
Ozais Leduc, painter (died 1955) -
birth
William Robson, polotitian (died 1941) -
raid
St. Albans Raid. -
birth
James Alexander Murray, politician and Premier of New Brunswick (died 1960) -
birth
John Wesley Brien, physician and politician (died 1949) -
birth
Henry Edgarton Allen, politician -
birth
January 7 - Lyman Duff, jurist and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (died 1955) -
death
January 16 - Joseph Cunard, merchant, shipbuilder and politician (born 1799) -
message approved
Legislature approves message to Crown for union of British North America provinces. -
birth
February 10 - Richard Gardiner Willis, politician (died 1929) -
motion passed
The Legislature of the Province of Canada passes a motion in favour of Confederation -
birth
February 28 - Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary (died 1940) -
rejection
New Brunswick rejects a Confederation scheme. -
birth
March 15 - Edith Maude Eaton, author (died 1914) -
appiontance
Macdonald, Brown, Cartier, Galt appointed to negotiate Confederation in London. -
birth
April 10 - Jack Miner, conservationist (died 1944) -
letter
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. -
premier
Louis-Victor Sicotte, Canada East Premier until May 15, 1863 -
birth
May 31 - Clarence Chant, astronomer and physicist (died 1956) -
death
July 27 - Augustin-Norbert Morin, lawyer, judge, politician and Joint Premier of the Province of Canada (born 1803) -
death
July 30 - Étienne-Paschal Taché, doctor, politician, and deputy adjutant-general of the militia (born 1795) -
birth
August 10 - James Wilson Morrice, painter (died 1924) -
death
August 27 - Thomas Chandler Haliburton, author, judge and politician (born 1796) -
seat of govenment
Proclamation of Ottawa as seat of government. -
election
Newfoundland general election, 1865 -
birth
November 17 - John Stanley Plaskett, astronomer (died 1941) -
province of canada is authoroized
December 16 - A distinctive Blue Ensign for the province of Canada is authorized by the UK secretary of state for the colonies. -
revision
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. -
birth
December 25 - James Breakey, politician (died 1952)
