1852 in Canada

Events from the year 1852 in Canada.

Incumbents

Monarch — Victoria{{cite web |title=Queen Victoria {{!}} The Canadian Encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/victoria# |website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca |access-date=5 December 2022}}

January 15 – Trinity College opens.
July 8 – Beginning of a fire which burns 11,000 houses in Montreal.
October – The Bank of Montreal issues notes like the Bank of England's; denomination water-marked.
October 25 – The Toronto Stock Exchange opens.{{Cite news |last=Staff |first=Financial Post |date=2011-02-08 |title=Timeline: 160 years of the Toronto Stock Exchange |language=en |work=Financial Post |url=https://financialpost.com/investing/timeline-160-years-of-the-toronto-stock-exchange |access-date=2022-11-18}}
November 10 – The Grand Trunk Railway Company is incorporated to build a railway between Toronto and Montreal.{{cite web |url=https://www.trha.ca/trha/history/railways/grand-trunk-railway/ |title=Grand Trunk Railway |publisher=Toronto Railway Historical Association |first=Adam |last=Peltenburg |access-date=November 17, 2022}}
December 8 – Laval's Seminaire du Quebec founds Université Laval, North America's oldest French Language university.

The 1852 Newfoundland general election occurs.{{Cite book |last=Cadigan |first=Sean |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PWspDwAAQBAJ |title=Newfoundland and Labrador: A History |date=2017-06-22 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=978-1-4875-1677-2 |language=en}}

January 1 – Alexander Bethune, politician and 12th Mayor of Vancouver (died 1947)
March 22 – Theodore Davie, lawyer, politician and 9th Premier of British Columbia (died 1898)
April 5 – Alexander Warburton, politician, jurist, author and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1929)
August 19 – John Andrew Davidson, politician (died 1903)
September 9 – Fletcher Bath Wade, politician and barrister (died 1905)
September 24 – Joseph Martin, lawyer, politician and 13th Premier of British Columbia (died 1923)
November 2 – Paul Tourigny, politician (died 1926)

April 3 – Alexander Rankin, timber merchant, justice of the peace, politician, and office holder (born 1788)
November 3 – Francis Gore, colonial administrator (born 1769)