1848 in Canada

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Events from the year 1848 in Canada.

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January 2 - Maple sugar is made in St. Anselme.

January 15 - Wellington and Commissioners streets in Montreal are flooded.

January 27 - Ploughing about Bathurst and Beckwith.

March 4 - The so-called Great Ministry of Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine begins.

May 15 - MP's vote themselves 50 pounds each for 25 days.

July 5 - Run on the Savings Bank, Montreal, followed by re-deposit.

September 20 - Opening of the Jesuits' College, Montreal.

First telegraph lines in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

Newfoundland general election, 1848

Responsible government established in Nova Scotia and The Canadas.

January 19 - John Fitzwilliam Stairs, entrepreneur and statesman (died 1904)

February 4 - James Brien, politician and physician (died 1907)

February 24 - Grant Allen, science writer, author and novelist (died 1899)

March 7 - Isidore-Noël Belleau, politician and lawyer (died 1936)

March 24 - Honoré Beaugrand, journalist, politician, author and folklorist (died 1906)

April 14 - James Walker, jurist

April 23 - George Clift King, politician and 2 Mayor of Calgary (died 1935)

May 20 - Joseph-Aldric Ouimet, politician (died 1916)

July 18 - Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan, newspaper publisher (died 1938)

October 23 - Joseph Tassé, politician (died 1895)

November 24 - William Stevens Fielding, journalist, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (died 1929)

December 21 - George Boyce, politician (died 1930)

February 1 - John Neilson, publisher, printer, bookseller, politician, farmer, and militia officer (born 1776)

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