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Events from the year 1848 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
Premiers
Events
- January 2 –
Maple sugar is made in St. Anselme.
- January 15 – Wellington and Commissioners streets in
Montreal are flooded.
- January 27 – Ploughing about Bathurst and Beckwith.
- March 4 – The so-called Great Ministry of
Robert Baldwin and
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine begins.
- May 15 – MP's vote themselves 50 pounds each for 25 days.
- July 5 – Run on the Savings Bank, Montreal, followed by re-deposit.
- September 20 – Opening of the
Jesuits' College, Montreal.
full date unknown
Births
- January 19 –
John Fitzwilliam Stairs, entrepreneur and statesman (died
1904)
- February 4 –
James Brien, politician and physician (died
1907)
- February 24 –
Grant Allen, science writer, author and novelist (died
1899)
- March 7 –
Isidore-Noël Belleau, politician and lawyer (died
1936)
- March 24 –
Honoré Beaugrand, journalist, politician, author and folklorist (died
1906)
- April 14 –
James Walker, jurist
- April 23 –
George Clift King, politician and 2 Mayor of
Calgary (died
1935)
- May 20 –
Joseph-Aldric Ouimet, politician (died
1916)
- July 18 –
Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan, newspaper publisher (died
1938)
- October 23 –
Joseph Tassé, politician (died
1895)
- November 24 –
William Stevens Fielding, journalist, politician and Premier of
Nova Scotia (died
1929)
- December 21 –
George Boyce, politician (died
1930)
Deaths
- February 1 –
John Neilson, publisher, printer, bookseller, politician, farmer, and militia officer (born
1776)
References
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