1851 in Canada

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Events from the year 1851 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

• Monarch — Victoria

Federal government[]

• Parliament: 3rd

Governors[]

• Governor General of the Province of Canada — James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
• Colonial Governor of Newfoundland — Charles Henry Darling
• Governor of New Brunswick — Edmund Walker Head
• Governor of Nova Scotia — John Harvey
• Governor of Prince Edward Island — Dominick Daly

Premiers[]

• Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada —
  • Francis Hincks, Canada West Premier
  • Augustin-Norbert Morin, Canada East Premier
• Premier of Nova Scotia — James Boyle Uniacke
• Premier of Prince Edward Island — John Holl

Events[]

• April 7 – The first Canadian postage stamps are printed
• April 25 – Prince Edward Island wins responsible government
• June – Harbor Commissioners deepen Lake St. Peter.
• July – The bloomer costume appears in Montreal.
• August 30 – The Vancouver Island legislature meets for the first time
• October 11 – The St. L. & A. Railway is opened to Richmond.
• William Kennedy was commander of the second sponsored expedition to find Sir John Franklin

Full date unknown[]

• Gabriel Franchere's Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America published in Montreal.
• The United Kingdom transfers control of the colonial postal system to Canada.

Births[]

• April 7 – John Wilson Bengough, political cartoonist (died 1923)
• April 8 – Frederick Peters, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1919)
• May 22 – Gilbert Ganong, businessman, politician and Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (died 1917)
• July 8 – James Dunsmuir, industrialist, politician and Premier of British Columbia (died 1920)
• August 26 – Herbert James Palmer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1939)
• September 5 – George Frederick Baird, politician and lawyer (died 1899)
• November – Levi Addison Ault, businessman and naturalist (died 1930)
• November 28 – Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey, 9th Governor General of Canada (died 1917)
• December 10 – James Albert Manning Aikins, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (died 1929)

Deaths[]

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