1860 in Canada explained
Events from the year 1860 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
Premiers
Events
Full date unknown
Sport
- 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
Births
January to June
July to December
Full date unknown
Deaths
- 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)
Full date unknown
Historical documents
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]
Notes and References
- Web site: Queen Victoria The Canadian Encyclopedia . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . 5 December 2022.
- Web site: On the Rocks: Shipwrecks of Nova Scotia – Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, Nova Scotia . 2009-03-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070713102225/http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mma/wrecks/wrecks/shipwrecks.asp?ID=2197 . 2007-07-13 . dead .
- https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist18600927uvic/page/n1/mode/1up "Fugitive Slave Case"
- https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A2744222 "Excessive Smoking"