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1864 in Canada

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{{Year in Canada|1864}}

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Events from the year 1864 in Canada.

Incumbents

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  • 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}}

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Events

  • June 29 – St-Hilaire train disaster : A train of newly arrived immigrants fails to stop at the open swing span near Beloeil, Canada East. The Grand Trunk Railway train runs into the Richelieu River, killing 99.
  • June 30 – Macdonald-Cartier "Great Coalition" government formed.
  • July 18 – US Civil War: North-South negotiations begin at Niagara Falls, New York
  • September 1 – September 9: Charlottetown Conference, noted as the first step towards Confederation{{Cite web|url=http://www.pei2014.ca/history_pg1|title=Birthplace of Confederation:The 1864 Charlottetown Conference|access-date=26 April 2015|ref=none|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150509154203/http://www.pei2014.ca/history_pg1|archive-date=9 May 2015|url-status=dead}}
  • September 19 – Confederate agents use Canada as base for attempt to free Confederate prisoners of war on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie.
  • October 10 – October 27: Quebec Conference,{{Cite web|url=http://www.heritage.nf.ca/law/quebec.html|title=The Quebec Conference, October 1864|access-date=26 April 2015|ref=none}} identified 72 resolutions for the British North America Act, 1867
  • October 19 – St. Albans Raid{{Cite web|url=http://www.virtualvermont.com/history/staraid.html|title=The St, Albans Raid|access-date=26 April 2015|ref=none}}

Births

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  • January 11 – Henry Marshall Tory,[https://sites.ualberta.ca/ALUMNI/history/peoplep-z/47OctTory.htm Henry Marshall Tory] Canadian university founder (died 1947)
  • February 15{{Cite web|url=http://www.mountpleasantgroup.com/new/interest/stories/archives/hearst|title=William Howard Hearst|publisher=Mount Pleasant Group|access-date=26 April 2015|ref=none|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304085945/http://www.mountpleasantgroup.com/new/interest/stories/archives/hearst|url-status=dead}} – Sir William Howard Hearst, politician and 7th Premier of Ontario (died 1941)
  • March 31 – J. J. Kelso,{{Cite web|url=http://canadachannel.ca/canadianbirthdays/index.php/John_Joseph_Kelso|title=John Joseph Kelso|publisher=Canada Channel|access-date=26 April 2015|ref=none}} journalist and social activist (died 1935)
  • July 27 – Ernest Howard Armstrong, journalist, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (died 1946)
  • October 3 – William Robson, politician (died 1941)
  • October 8 – Ozias Leduc,{{Cite web|url=http://www.geni.com/people/Ozias-Leduc/6000000021122040636|title=Ozias Leduc|date=8 October 1864 |access-date=16 April 2015|ref=none}} painter (died 1955)
  • November 9 – James Alexander Murray, politician and Premier of New Brunswick (died 1960)
  • November 24{{Cite web|url=http://www.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Files/Parliamentarian.aspx?Item=d9d79a0d-93d8-4fb2-953f-df2e0ffb0539&Language=E|title=Parliament of Canada|access-date=26 April 2015|ref=none|archive-date=24 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150324105329/http://www.parl.gc.ca/ParlInfo/Files/Parliamentarian.aspx?Item=d9d79a0d-93d8-4fb2-953f-df2e0ffb0539&Language=E|url-status=dead}} – John Wesley Brien, physician and politician (died 1949)
  • December 14 – Henry Edgarton Allen, politician

Deaths

Historical documents

Report from a Confederate agent in Canada (including failed breakout at Johnson's Island POW camp)[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+23501300)) A Leaf from History; Report of J. Thompson, Secret Agent of the Late Confederate Government, Stationed in Canada(...)] (Union Republican Congressional Committee). Accessed 8 September 2018

Brief account of Confederate agents' raid on St. Albans, Vermont[http://cdi.uvm.edu/manuscript/uvmcdi-80658 "Andrew Craig Fletcher to Andrew and Ruth Fletcher, 1864 October 20"] Fletcher Family, Digital Collections, The University of Vermont Libraries. Accessed 20 September 2018

Consequences in the U.S.A. follow the freeing of the St. Albans raiders by a Canadian courtUnited States Department of State, [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=turn&entity=FRUS.FRUS1865p1.p0091&id=FRUS.FRUS1865p1 "Raids from the British Province"] Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-Ninth Congress (1865), pgs. 51-2. Accessed 8 September 2018

Canadian in the Union Army describes desperate Confederate assaults at Battle of Franklin, Tennessee [http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/fenians/darroch_acquisition.aspx "Letter, Alonzo Wolverton to his sister Roseltha Wolverton Goble, December 4, 1864"] Examples of Wolverton Family Letters from Darroch Donation, Archives of Ontario. Accessed 8 September 2018

Illustration: Battle of FranklinKurz & Allison, [http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/pga.01852/ "Battle of Franklin. November 30, 1864-Union (Gen. Schofield) ... Conf. (Gen. Hood) ..."] (1891). Accessed 23 September 2021

Intelligence reports that Greek fire is being manufactured at Windsor, Ontario for burning Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit and other U.S. citiesPapers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth Congress; Part I (1866), [https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1865p1/pg_36 pgs. 36-7]. Accessed 29 January 2020

Halifax, Nova Scotia sends a message of support to President LincolnUnited States Department of State, [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=turn&entity=FRUS.FRUS1864p1.p0136&id=FRUS.FRUS1864p1 "To his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America"] Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-Eighth Congress (1864), pgs. 126-7. Accessed 8 September 2018

Speaker in Montreal argues the U.S.A. is not hostile toward Canada Rev. John Cordner, [https://archive.org/details/canadaandtheusa00cordrich Canada and the United States: An Address on the American Conflict(...)] (1865). Accessed 8 September 2018

Excerpts from George Brown's letter describing the Charlottetown Conference[https://web.archive.org/web/20191126184625/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/confederation/023001-7103-e.html "George Brown describes the Charlottetown Conference, 1864"] Canadian Confederation, Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 6 September 2021

Good prospects for the port of Collingwood, Canada West[http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/details.asp?ID=6830 "Opening of Navigation"] Enterprise, Collingwood, C.W. Accessed 8 September 2018

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