1849 in Canada

Events

January 1 – King's College becomes the University of Toronto
February 10 – The Governor, Ministers, MPs and Montreal's council visit St. Hyacinthe, on the St. Lawrence abd Atlantic Railway.
April 25 – For sanctioning the Rebellion Losses Bill, Lord Elgin is mobbed and the Parliament House in Montreal is burned.
May – The Hayes House in Dalhousie Square, leased for Parliamentary purposes. The parliament is to sit alternately in Quebec City and Toronto.
May 29 – Gen. Rowan, Administrator.
December 26 – Electors ask J. McConnell, M.P.P. for Stanstead, if he favors annexation, which they believe will, alone, relieve depression.
The Beauharnois Canal is opened.
The boundary at the 49th parallel is extended to the Pacific Ocean (bisecting Point Roberts, Washington).
The Courthouse Rebellion is launched by the Red River Métis.
An Act of Amnesty provides for William Lyon Mackenzie's return from exile in the U.S.

January 5 – Sam Steele, police officer
February 21 – Edouard-Gaston Deville, surveyor
May 6 – Wyatt Eaton, artist
July 12 – William Osler, physician
July 22 – Charles Mickle, Manitoba politician
August 1 – George Mercer Dawson, explorer/surveyor of Canadian Rockies and Western Canada
October 17 – Sir William Mackenzie, railway entrepreneur
November 13 – Charles Constantine, police officer
November 20 – Francis Longworth Haszard, Premier of PEI
November 30 – Lemuel J. Tweedie, Premier of New Brunswick
December 18 – Henrietta Edwards, feminist