1855 in Canada

Events from the year 1855 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}}

British Empire's Crimean War continues, British troops being withdrawn.
Albert Salter surveys the North Shore of Lake Huron, following the signing of the Robinson-Huron Treaty in 1850.{{cite book |first=Oiva |last=Saarinen |title=From Meteorite Impact to Constellation City: A Historical Geography of Greater Sudbury |publisher=Wilfrid Laurier University Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-55458-837-4 |page=41}}
January 1 – Bytown is renamed Ottawa.
March 8 – A bridge over the Niagara River near Niagara Falls is completed.
April 11 – The Militia Act of 1855 is passed in the Parliament of the Province of CanadaCFHQ Report #6, Canadian Militia prior to Confederation, pg 70 ph 162
April 17 – Charlottetown incorporated as a city.
May 19 - The Militia Act is proclaimed.Canadian Gazette Extra May 19, 1855 pg 1
August 17 – The Charlottetown Police Department is established.
August 31 – The First Volunteer Militia units are formed,Canadian Gazette Sep 1, 1855 pg 1153 by year end 21 Companies have been formed.
November 19 – The first section of the Grand Trunk Railway's original Toronto–Montreal mainline is completed between Montreal and Brockville.{{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}}

January 14 – Homer Watson, artist (died 1936)
February 22 – Grace Annie Lockhart, first woman in the British Empire to receive a Bachelor's degree (died 1916)
March 5 – Nérée Le Noblet Duplessis, politician, 19th Mayor of Trois-Rivières and father of 16th Premier of Quebec Maurice Duplessis (died 1926)
May 11 – Charles Doherty, politician and jurist (died 1931)
July 29 – Bowman Brown Law, politician (died 1916)
August 3 – Charles Hibbert Tupper, politician (died 1927)
September 12 – Simon-Napoléon Parent, politician and Premier of Quebec (died 1920)
December 14 – William Brymner, art teacher and painter (died 1925)

July 7 – Henry Sherwood, lawyer, local politician and 4th Premier of Canada West (born 1802)