1858 in Canada

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Events from the year 1858 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch — Victoria^[1]

Federal government

• Parliament — 6th

Governors

• Governor General of the Province of Canada — Edmund Walker Head
• Colonial Governor of Newfoundland — Alexander Bannerman
• Governor of Nova Scotia — George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby
• Governor of Prince Edward Island — Dominick Daly

• Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada
  —
  • George-Étienne Cartier, Canada West Premier
  • Antoine-Aimé Dorion, Canada East Premier
• Premier of Newfoundland — John Kent
• Premier of New Brunswick — Samuel Leonard Tilley
• Premier of Nova Scotia — James William Johnston
• Premier of Prince Edward Island — Edward Palmer

Events

• The Frontenac County Court House opens.
• The Canadian government imposes revenue tariffs on US manufactured goods to pay for railroad debts.
• The Province of Canada releases its first decimal coinage into circulation, minted in England.
• The
  Halifax-Truro
  line begins rail service.
• The
  Colony of British Columbia on the Mainland and igniting the Fraser Canyon War
  .
  • Métis, Hawaiians
    and others already in the area who abandoned regular employment to work the banks of the Fraser alongside the native peoples, who also took part in the rush.
  • About 600
    Barkerville newspaper The Cariboo Sentinel
    .
• The Toronto Islands are created after a fierce storm detaches the island from the mainland at the Eastern gap.
• The British Columbia Provincial Police are established.
• New Westminster became the capital city of the Colony of British Columbia.

Births

• February 15 – Joseph Flavelle, businessman (died 1939)
• June 1 – Phoebe Amelia Watson, painter and curator (died 1947)
• August 8 – Ralph Smith, coal miner, labor leader and politician (died 1917)
• September 16 – Bonar Law, politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1923)
• September 28 – Charles Hill-Tout, anthropologist
• October 26 – Arthur Sifton, politician and 2nd Premier of Alberta (died 1921)
• November 1 – Joseph Tyrrell, geologist, cartographer and mining consultant (died 1957)

Deaths

• June 29 – William Morris, businessman, militia officer, justice of the peace, politician, and school administrator (born 1786)
• December 9 – Robert Baldwin, politician (born 1804)

Historical Documents

In Britain, "New Caledonia" bill's "immediate object is to establish temporary law and order amidst a motley inundation of immigrant diggers"^[2]

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