1859 in Canada

1859 in Canada

"See also:"
1858 in Canada,
other events of 1859,
1860 in Canada and the
list of 'years in Canada'.

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Events

* Abraham Shadd is elected to the town council in Raleigh, Ontario and becomes the first Black elected to public office.
* William Hall, born in Hants County, Nova Scotia, becomes the first Nova Scotian and the first Black to win the Victoria Cross for Bravery in the war. The Victoria Cross is the highest military honour in the Commonwealth of Nations.
* The all-Black Victoria Pioneer Rifle Company is formed to defend British Columbia.
* De Stoeckl returns to U.S. from Saint Petersburg with authority to negotiate the sale of Alaska.
* McGowan's War, a juridicial and political crisis in the Fraser River goldfieldsinvolving a spillover of San Francisco politics into British territory, has the potential to escalate into an annexationist uprising but is settled peaceably. Marines and Royal Engineers are dispatched to Yale, led by Colonel Clement Francis Moody and escorting Justice Matthew Baillie Begbie to resolve the matter, which ends amicably, and reassert British sovereignty over the fledgling Mainland Colony.
* Lyman Cutler, an American settler, homesteads on San Juan Island in defiance of British claims and triggers off the Pig War.

Births

* January 16 - Henry Pellatt, businessman
* January 17 - Joseph Ovide Brouillard, politician
* January 18 - Elizabeth Shortt, politician
* April 5 - Robert Franklin Sutherland, politician
* May 8 - Edward Patrick Morris, Prime Minister of Newfoundland
* June 25 - George Henry Bradbury, politician
* July 11 (June 29 Julian Calendar) - Peter Verigin, Doukhobor leader
* August 4 - Louis-Adolphe Paquet, theologian
* August 10 - Wellington Bartley Willoughby, politician
* September 17 - Frank Dawson Adams, geologist

Deaths


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