1860 in Canada

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Events from the year 1860 in Canada.

Incumbents edit

February 20 – 205 killed when the SS Hungarian (Allan Line) is wrecked at Cape Sable, Nova Scotia^[2]
April 26 – The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada formed
May 8 – Roman Catholic Diocese of Chatham (later renamed Roman Catholic Diocese of Bathurst (Canada)) erected
August 25 – Montreal's Victoria Bridge opens
September 1 – In Ottawa, the cornerstone of the Centre Block building is laid by Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, signalling the beginning of the building of the Parliament of Canada buildings.

June 27 – Don Juan won the first Queen's Plate race is held in Toronto.
Fred Lillywhite's The English Cricketers' Trip to Canada and the United States published, detailing the 1859 Tour of the US and Canada

John Douglas Hazen

May 31 – Henry Wise Wood, politician and president of the United Farmers of Alberta (died 1941)
June 1 – Margaret Mick, prison guard, first female Canadian peace officer to be killed in the line of duty (died 1925)
June 5 – John Douglas Hazen, politician and 12th Premier of New Brunswick (died 1937)
June 18 – Laura Muntz Lyall, painter (died 1930)

July 9 – Frederick Cope, 3rd Mayor of Vancouver (died 1897)
August 14 – Ernest Thompson Seton, author and wildlife artist (died 1946)
August 21 – Aylesworth Perry, 6th Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (died 1956)
August 29 – James Duncan McGregor, agricultural pioneer, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (died 1935)
September 2 – Georgina Fraser Newhall, author and the bardess of the Clan Fraser Society of Canada (died 1932)
September 15 – Napoléon Belcourt, politician (died 1932)
October 14 – John Hampden Burnham, politician and lawyer (died 1940)

January 18 – William Thompson, farmer and political figure (born 1786)
May 26 – John Willson, judge and political figure (born 1776)
July 16 – Brenton Halliburton, army officer, lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1774)
August 10 – Joseph-François Deblois, lawyer, judge and political figure (born 1797)
September 20 – John McDonald, businessman and political figure (born 1787)
October 23 – Peter Boyle de Blaquière, political figure and first chancellor of the University of Toronto (born 1783)

Escaped slave in Victoria allowed by court to remain, and local paper finds reaction in U.S.A. "blustering," "ridiculous" and "buncombe"^[3]

"Pernicious habit" - Letter to the editor (with excerpt from The Lancet) warns against young men and boys smoking^[4]

^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
^ "On the Rocks: Shipwrecks of Nova Scotia – Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, Nova Scotia". Archived from the original on 2007-07-13. Retrieved 2009-03-04.
^ "Fugitive Slave Case" (September 27, 1860; Vol. 4, No. 64, pg. 2) and "The Last Fugitive Slave Case" (October 4, 1860; Vol. 4, No. 69, pg. 2), The (Victoria) Daily British Colonist. Accessed 10 February 2021
^ "Excessive Smoking" The Nor'-Wester (Red River Settlement, March 14, 1860), pg. 1. Accessed 16 December 2020