Events from the year 1851 in Canada.
Incumbents Monarch — Victoria
Federal government Parliament: 3rd
Governors Governor General of the Province of Canada — James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin Colonial Governor of Newfoundland — Charles Henry Darling Governor of New Brunswick — Edmund Walker Head Governor of Nova Scotia — John Harvey Governor of Prince Edward Island — Dominick Daly
Premiers Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada — Robert Baldwin, Canada West Premier Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canada East Premier Premier of Nova Scotia — James Boyle Uniacke Premier of Prince Edward Island — John Holl
Events April 7 – The first Canadian postage stamps are printed. April 25 – Prince Edward Island wins responsible government. June – Harbor Commissioners deepen Lake St. Peter. July – The bloomer costume appears in Montreal. July 31 – Broad Provincial railway gauge is legislated in the Province of Canada, creating a break-of-gauge with American railways. August 30 – The Vancouver Island legislature meets for the first time. October 11 – The St. L. & A. Railway is opened to Richmond. William Kennedy was commander of the second sponsored expedition to find Sir John Franklin.
Full date unknown Gabriel Franchere's Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America published in Montreal. The United Kingdom transfers control of the colonial postal system to Canada.
Births April 7 – John Wilson Bengough, political cartoonist (died 1923) April 8 – Frederick Peters, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1919) May 22 – Gilbert Ganong, businessman, politician and Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (died 1917) July 8 – James Dunsmuir, industrialist, politician and Premier of British Columbia (died 1920) August 26 – Herbert James Palmer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1939) September 5 – George Frederick Baird, politician and lawyer (died 1899) November – Levi Addison Ault, businessman and naturalist (died 1930) November 28 – Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey, 9th Governor General of Canada (died 1917) December 10 – James Albert Manning Aikins, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (died 1929)
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