# 1864 in Canada

Events from the year 1864 in Canada.

## Incumbents
### Crown

* Monarch – Victoria

### Federal government

* Parliament — 8th

### Governors

* Governor General of the Province of Canada — Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck
* Colonial Governor of Newfoundland — Anthony Musgrave
* Governor of New Brunswick — Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon
* Governor of Nova Scotia — Charles Hastings Doyle then Richard Graves MacDonnell then Sir William Fenwick Williams
* Governor of Prince Edward Island — George Dundas

### Premiers

* Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada –
** John Alexander Macdonald, Canada West Premier
** Étienne-Paschal Taché, Canada East Premier
* Premier of Newfoundland — Hugh Hoyles
* Premiers of New Brunswick — Samuel Leonard Tilley
* Premiers of Nova Scotia – Charles Tupper
* Premier of Prince Edward Island – John Hamilton Gray

## Events

* June 29 – St-Hilaire train disaster : A train of newly arrived immigrants fails to stop at the open swing span near Beloeil, Canada East. The Grand Trunk Railway train runs into the Richelieu River, killing 99.
* June 30 – Macdonald-Cartier "Great Coalition" government formed.
* July 18 – US Civil War: North-South negotiations begin at Niagara Falls, New York
* September 1 – September 9: Charlottetown Conference, noted as the first step towards Confederation
* September 19 – Confederate agents use Canada as base for attempt to free Confederate prisoners of war on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie.
* October 10 – October 27: Quebec Conference, identified 72 resolutions for the British North America Act, 1867
* October 19 – St. Albans Raid.

## Births

* January 11 – Henry Marshall Tory, Canadian university founder (died 1947)
* February 15 – Sir William Howard Hearst, politician and 7th Premier of Ontario (died 1941)
* March 31 – J. J. Kelso, journalist and social activist (died 1935)
* July 27 – Ernest Howard Armstrong, journalist, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (died 1946)
* October 3 – William Robson, politician (died 1941)
* October 8 – Ozias Leduc, painter (died 1955)
* November 9 – James Alexander Murray, politician and Premier of New Brunswick (died 1960)
* November 24 – John Wesley Brien, physician and politician (died 1949)
* December 14 – Henry Edgarton Allen, politician

## Deaths

* February 20 – Rose Fortune, entrepreneur (born 1774)
* February 26 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, politician (born 1807)
* April 29 – Abraham Pineo Gesner, physician and surgeon, geologist, and inventor (born 1797)

## Historical documents

Report from a Confederate agent in Canada (including failed breakout at Johnson's Island POW camp)
Brief account of Confederate agents' raid on St. Albans, Vermont
Consequences in the U.S.A. follow the freeing of the St. Albans raiders by a Canadian court
Canadian in the Union Army describes desperate Confederate assaults at Battle of Franklin, Tennessee
Illustration: Battle of Franklin
Intelligence reports that Greek fire is being manufactured at Windsor, Ontario for burning Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit and other U.S. cities
Halifax, Nova Scotia sends a message of support to President Lincoln
Speaker in Montreal argues the U.S.A. is not hostile toward Canada
Excerpts from George Brown's letter describing the Charlottetown Conference
Good prospects for the port of Collingwood, Canada West