Events from the year 1857 in Canada.
Incumbents Monarch — Victoria
Federal government Parliament — 5th
Governors Governor General of the Province of Canada — Edmund Walker Head Colonial Governor of Newfoundland — Charles Henry Darling Governor of New Brunswick — John Manners-Sutton Governor of Nova Scotia — John Gaspard Le Marchant Governor of Prince Edward Island — Dominick Daly
Premiers Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada — , Canada West Premier , Canada East Premier , Premier of Newfoundland — Philip Francis Little Premier of New Brunswick — Charles Fisher Premier of Nova Scotia — William Young Premier of Prince Edward Island — John Holl
Events March 12 — Desjardins Canal disaster - The bridge over Desjardins Canal, near Hamilton, Canada West, collapses under a Great Western Railway passenger train. About 60 people die. Grand Trunk Railway (Windsor-Montreal) completed, but $7 million in debt. December 31 - Queen Victoria names Ottawa as capital of the Province of Canada. The Palliser Expedition begins its exploration of Western Canada.
Births
January to June February 2 — Alexander Cameron Rutherford, lawyer and politician, first premier of Alberta (died 1941) February 25 — Robert Bond, politician and Prime Minister of Newfoundland (died 1927) February 27 — Adelaide Hoodless, educational reformer who founded the Women's Institute (died 1910) March 17 — Willis Keith Baldwin, politician (died 1935) June 20 — Adam Beck, politician and hydro-electricity advocate (died 1925)
July to December July 27 — Ann Stowe-Gullen, doctor August 15 — Theodore Arthur Burrows, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (died 1929) August 15 — John Strathearn Hendrie, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (died 1923) September 12 — George Halsey Perley, politician and diplomat (died 1938) October 10 — Cassie Chadwick, fraudster (died 1907) October 10 — George Johnson Clarke, lawyer, journalist, politician and 14th Premier of New Brunswick (died 1917) November 25 — Frederick W. A. G. Haultain, politician and 1st Premier of the Northwest Territories (died 1942)
Deaths February 10 — David Thompson, fur trader, surveyor and map-maker (born 1770) March 13 — William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, diplomat and governor general (born 1773) September 3 — John McLoughlin, physician, fur trader, and merchant (born 1784) November 3 — William Fitzwilliam Owen, naval officer, hydrographic surveyor (born 1774)
Full date unknown Isabella Clark, first wife of John A. Macdonald, premier of the Province of Canada (born 1811)
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