1852 in Canada explained

Events from the year 1852 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch — Victoria^[1]

Federal government

• Parliament

4th

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

• January 15 – Trinity College opens.
• July 8 – Beginning of a fire which burns 11,000 houses in Montreal.
• October – The Bank of Montreal issues notes like the Bank of England's; denomination water-marked.
• October 25 – The Toronto Stock Exchange opens.^[2]
• November 10 – The Grand Trunk Railway Company is incorporated to build a railway between Toronto and Montreal.^[3]
• December 8 – Laval's Seminaire du Quebec founds Université Laval, North America's oldest French Language university.

Full date unknown

• The 1852 Newfoundland general election occurs.^[4]

Births

• January 1 – Alexander Bethune, politician and 12th Mayor of Vancouver (died 1947)
• March 22 – Theodore Davie, lawyer, politician and 9th Premier of British Columbia (died 1898)
• April 5 – Alexander Warburton, politician, jurist, author and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1929)
• August 19 – John Andrew Davidson, politician (died 1903)
• September 9 – Fletcher Bath Wade, politician and barrister (died 1905)
• September 24 – Joseph Martin, lawyer, politician and 13th Premier of British Columbia (died 1923)
• November 2 – Paul Tourigny, politician (died 1926)

Deaths

• April 3 – Alexander Rankin, timber merchant, justice of the peace, politician, and office holder (born 1788)
• November 3 – Francis Gore, colonial administrator (born 1769)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Queen Victoria The Canadian Encyclopedia . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . 5 December 2022.
2. News: Staff . Financial Post . 2011-02-08 . Timeline: 160 years of the Toronto Stock Exchange . en . Financial Post . 2022-11-18.
3. Web site: Grand Trunk Railway . Toronto Railway Historical Association . Adam . Peltenburg . November 17, 2022.
4. Book: Cadigan, Sean . Newfoundland and Labrador: A History . 2017-06-22 . University of Toronto Press . 978-1-4875-1677-2 . en.