# 1860 in Canada

Events from the year 1860 in Canada.

## Incumbents

* Monarch — Victoria

### Federal government

* Parliament — 6th

### Governors

* Governor General of the Province of Canada — Edmund Walker Head
* Colonial Governor of Newfoundland — Alexander Bannerman
* Governor of New Brunswick — Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon
* Governor of Nova Scotia — George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby
* Governor of Prince Edward Island — Dominick Daly

### Premiers

* Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada —
** George-Étienne Cartier, Canada West Premier
** Antoine-Aimé Dorion, Canada East Premier
* Premier of Newfoundland — John Kent
* Premier of New Brunswick — Samuel Leonard Tilley
* Premier of Nova Scotia — James William Johnston
* Premier of Prince Edward Island — Edward Palmer

## Events

* February 20 – 205 killed when the SS Hungarian (Allan Line) is wrecked at Cape Sable, Nova Scotia.
* April 26 – The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada formed.
* May 8 – Roman Catholic Diocese of Chatham (later renamed Roman Catholic Diocese of Bathurst (Canada)) erected.
* August 25 – Montreal's Victoria Bridge opens.
* September 1 – In Ottawa, the cornerstone of the Centre Block building is laid by Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, signalling the beginning of the building of the Parliament of Canada buildings.

### Full date unknown

* Chalon head postage stamp issued in New Brunswick
* First ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Church of Canada – Canada – created
* Free Methodist Church in Canada founded
* Two month tour of Canada by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales

## Sport

* June 27 – Don Juan won the first Queen's Plate race is held in Toronto.
* Fred Lillywhite's The English Cricketers' Trip to Canada and the United States published, detailing the 1859 Tour of the US and Canada

## Births
### January to June

* January 10 – Charles G.D. Roberts, poet and prose writer (died 1943)
* March 7 – Alexander Grant MacKay, teacher, lawyer and politician (died 1920)
* May 31 – Henry Wise Wood, politician and president of the United Farmers of Alberta (died 1941)
* June 1 – Margaret Mick, prison guard, first female Canadian peace officer to be killed in the line of duty (died 1925)
* June 5 – John Douglas Hazen, politician and 12th Premier of New Brunswick (died 1937)
* June 18 – Laura Muntz Lyall, painter (died 1930)

### July to December

* July 9 – Frederick Cope, 3rd Mayor of Vancouver (died 1897)
* August 14 – Ernest Thompson Seton, author and wildlife artist (died 1946)
* August 21 – Aylesworth Perry, 6th Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (died 1956)
* August 29 – James Duncan McGregor, agricultural pioneer, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (died 1935)
* September 2 – Georgina Fraser Newhall, author and the bardess of the Clan Fraser Society of Canada (died 1932)
* September 15 – Napoléon Belcourt, politician (died 1932)
* October 14 – John Hampden Burnham, politician and lawyer (died 1940)

### Full date unknown

* Nazaire-Nicolas Olivier, lawyer and politician (died 1898)

## Deaths

* January 18 – William Thompson, farmer and political figure (born 1786)
* May 26 – John Willson, judge and political figure (born 1776)
* July 16 – Brenton Halliburton, army officer, lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1774)
* August 10 – Joseph-François Deblois, lawyer, judge and political figure (born 1797)
* September 20 – John McDonald, businessman and political figure (born 1787)
* October 23 – Peter Boyle de Blaquière, political figure and first chancellor of the University of Toronto (born 1783)

### Full date unknown

* A-ca-oo-mah-ca-ye, a chief of the Blackfoot First Nation

## Historical documents

Escaped slave in Victoria allowed by court to remain, and local paper finds reaction in U.S.A. "blustering," "ridiculous" and "buncombe"
"Pernicious habit" - Letter to the editor (with excerpt from The Lancet) warns against young men and boys smoking