1848 in Canada

See also: 1847 in Canada, 1849 in Canada.

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Events from the year 1848 in Canada.

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

• First telegraph lines in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
• Newfoundland general election, 1848
• Responsible government established in Nova Scotia and The Canadas.

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)