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Events from the year 1866 in Canada .
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Governors
Premiers
Events
May–June – The
1866 New Brunswick election
June 2 –
Battle of Ridgeway :
Fenians invade Canada, giving Irish republicans at home a greater advantage over the
British back home
June 9 – At
Danville, Canada East , a fire breaks out in a railway car containing 2,000 pounds (910 kg) of ammunition. Private
Timothy O'Hea , an Irish soldier, will be awarded the Victoria Cross for his leadership and initiative in fighting the fire.
August 6 – The colonies of
Vancouver Island and
British Columbia are united, bearing the Mainland's name as the
Colony of British Columbia , with the Island capital,
Victoria , as the seat of government of the united colony.
December 4 –
London Conference , conference on resolutions discussed in 1864, to be added to the British North America Act
The piano manufacturer
Heintzman & Co. is incorporated.
Peter Edmund Jones graduates from
Queen's University , becoming Canada's first
indigenous medical doctor
[2]
Births
January to June
July to December
September 1 –
Clifford William Robinson , lawyer, businessman, politician and 11th
Premier of New Brunswick (died
1944 )
September 12 –
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon , 13th
Governor General of Canada (died
1941 )
October 6 –
Reginald Fessenden , inventor and radio pioneer (died
1932 )
October 19 –
Clarence Lucas , composer, lyricist, conductor and music professor (died
1947 )
December 26 –
Godfroy Langlois , politician, journalist and lawyer (died
1928 )
Deaths
January 16 –
David Willson , religious leader and mystic (born
1778 )
January 28 –
Robert Foulis , inventor, civil engineer and artist (born
1796 )
February 3 –
François-Xavier Garneau , notary, civil servant, poet and historian (born
1809 )
February 19 –
Charles Richard Ogden ,
Joint Premier of the Province of Canada (born
1791 )
March 14 –
Norman McLeod , Presbyterian minister (born
1780 )
April 11 –
Edward Bowen , lawyer, judge and politician (born
1780 )
July 28 –
Frédéric-Auguste Quesnel , politician, lawyer, and businessman (born
1785 )
October 26 –
John Kinder Labatt , brewer and founder of the
Labatt Brewing Company (born
1803 )
November 1 –
Jean-Baptiste-Éric Dorion , journalist and politician (born
1826 )
Historical documents
Sarnia , Canada West guards against
Fenian attack
[6]
Charge given by a Canada West judge to a grand jury in the Fenian invaders case
[7]
U.S. President
Andrew Johnson hopes Canadian courts will show
mercy to
condemned Fenians
[8]
Washington learns Fenian invaders' death sentences are to be
commuted
[9]
References
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"Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia" . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 5 December 2022 .
^ Sherwin, Allan L. (2012). Bridging two peoples : Chief Peter E. Jones, 1843-1909 . Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
ISBN
9781554586332 .
OCLC
806521138 .
^ Fetherling, Douglas (2008). "John Wesley Dafoe". The Canadian Encyclopedia .
^
Constance Piers
^ Niosi, Jorge (2008). "Edward Rogers Wood". The Canadian Encyclopedia .
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"Letter, Newton Wolverton at Sarnia, Ont. to brother Alonzo Wolverton at Wolverton, Ont., February 2, 1866" Examples of Wolverton Family Letters from Darroch Donation, Archives of Ontario. Note: scroll to bottom of page; accessed 9 September 2018
^
Trials of the Fenian Prisoners at Toronto, Who Were Captured at Fort Erie, C.W., in June, 1866 (1867), pg. 3. Accessed 9 September 2018
^
"(...)from the President of the United States" Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873; Monday, December 3, 1866, pgs. 16-17. Accessed 9 September 2018
^ United States Department of State,
"Sir F. Bruce to Mr. Seward" Executive Documents Printed by Order of the House of Representatives, during the Second Session of the Fortieth Congress, 1867-'68 (1867-1868), pg. 181. Accessed 9 September 2018
1866 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories