1867 in Canada

Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:Year in Canada Template:Sister project Events from the year 1867 in Canada.

Incumbents

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Crown

• Monarch – Victoria<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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January to June

Governors

• Governor General of Canada – Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – vacant
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Sir William Fenwick Williams

Premiers

• Premier of Canada – Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau
• Premier of New Brunswick – Peter Mitchell
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Charles Tupper

July to December

Federal government

• Governor General – Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck
• Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald (from July 1)
• Parliament – 1st (from November 6)

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Charles Hastings Doyle (until October 18) then Francis Pym Harding
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Sir William Fenwick Williams (until October 18) then Charles Hastings Doyle
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Henry William Stisted
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau

Premiers

• Premier of New Brunswick – Andrew Rainsford Wetmore (from August 16)
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Hiram Blanchard (July 4 – September 30) then William Annand (from November 4)
• Premier of Ontario – John Sandfield Macdonald (from July 16)
• Premier of Quebec – Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (from July 15)

Events

• February 16 – John A. Macdonald marries his second wife Susan Agnes Bernard.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• March 29 – Queen Victoria gives royal assent to the British North America Act, 1867.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• July 1
  • The Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick are united into the Dominion of Canada by the British North America Act. <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• • Sir John A. Macdonald becomes the first prime minister of the Dominion of Canada.
  • The Windsor Police Service is established.
• July 4 – Hiram Blanchard becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Charles Tupper.
• July 15 – Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau becomes the first premier of Quebec.
• July 16 – J. S. Macdonald becomes the first premier of Ontario.
• August 7 – September 20 – The 1867 Canadian election sees John A. Macdonald's Conservatives elected as government.
• September 3 – The 1867 Ontario election: J. S. Macdonald Liberal-Conservatives win a minority.
• September 18 – The 1867 Nova Scotia election
• November 6 – The 1st Canadian Parliament meets.
• November 7 – William Annand becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Hiram Blanchard.
• December 7 – The first federal budget is presented by Finance Minister John Rose.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Full date unknown

• Andrew R. Wetmore becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Peter Mitchell.
• The 1867 Quebec election
• The Parliamentary Press Gallery is established.
• Fall: Henry Seth Taylor steam buggy debuts at the Stanstead Fall Fair in Quebec, believed to be Canada's first car.

Births

• January 25 – Simon Fraser Tolmie, politician and 21st Premier of British Columbia (died 1937)
• February 2 – Charles E. Saunders, agronomist (died 1937)
• February 7 – John Livingstone Brown, politician (died 1953)
• February 20 – Flora Denison, feminist
• March 5 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, politician and 14th Premier of Quebec (died 1952)
• March 31 – Noah Timmins, mining developer and executive (died 1936)
• June 30 – Napoléon Turcot, politician (died 1939)
• August 9 – Charles Ballantyne, politician (died 1950)
• October 19 – Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie, feminist and social activist (died 1945)
• October 27 – Thomas Walter Scott, Politician and first Premier of Saskatchewan (died 1938)
• November 1 – Newton Rowell, lawyer and politician (died 1941)
• December 3 – William John Bowser, politician and Premier of British Columbia (died 1933)

Deaths

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Samuel Harrison

• July 23 – Samuel Harrison, farmer, lawyer, mill owner, politician, judge and 1st Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada (born 1802)
• August 25 – Pierre-Flavien Turgeon, Archbishop of Quebec (born 1787)
• September 7 – Jesse Ketchum, tanner, politician, and philanthropist (born 1782)
• November 1 – John Strachan, first Anglican Bishop of Toronto (born 1778)
• December 10 – Edward Whelan, journalist and politician (born 1824)

Historical documents

British House of Commons debates Confederation <ref>"Imperial Parliament, House of Commons, Federation of American Colonies, February 28" The (Auckland, N.Z.) Daily Southern Cross, Vol. XXIII, No. 3,076 (May 27, 1867), pg. 6. Accessed 9 September 2018 (See also John A. Macdonald's comment that British foreign minister objected to "Kingdom" of Canada term in draft bill)</ref>

In first Speech from the Throne, Governor General Monck lists legislative agenda, including eastern railway and western expansion<ref>"His Excellency the Governor General" Minutes of Proceedings of the Senate of the Dominion of Canada (November 7, 1867), pgs. 8-9. (See 1877 map of Intercolonial Railway and modern Territorial Evolution maps) Accessed 27 November 2021</ref>

Thomas D'Arcy McGee lectures on the state of cultural development in Canada <ref>Thomas D'Arcy McGee, "The Mental Outfit of the New Dominion" The (Montreal) Gazette, November 5, 1867. Accessed 9 September 2018</ref>

Court validates a "country marriage," allowing a Metis man to inherit <ref>John Connolly, plaintiff vs. Julia Woolrich, defendant and Thomas R. Johnson, et al., executors and defendants par reprise d'instance Superior Court, Montreal (1867). Accessed 9 September 2018</ref>

Report on Anglican mission work among and by Indigenous people in Rupert's Land<ref>Right Rev. Robert Machray, Diocese of Rupert's Land, Church of England, Report of the Second Conference of Clergy and Lay-Delegates from Parishes in the Diocese of Rupert's Land (1867), pgs. 21-3. Accessed 9 September 2018</ref>

Photo: St. Regis Lacrosse Club<ref>William Notman, "St. Regis Lacrosse Club" (1867), McCord Museum. Accessed 18 May 2022</ref>