1861 in Canada

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Events from the year 1861 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch — Queen Victoria

Events

• April 14 – A major flood hits Montreal
• April 15 – Nova Scotia: resolution for provincial union by Joseph Howe for referral to the other British North American provinces in July.
• May 13 – The UK declares its neutrality in American Civil War.
• June 1 – The UK bans naval craft or privateers of American belligerents from carrying prizes into British ports or territorial waters.
• November 8 – The Trent Affair: British packet steamer Trent stopped by United States warship in international waters. Two Confederate diplomats taken off and imprisoned in Boston.
• November 28 – Viscount Monck becomes Governor-General.
• December 3 – The UK sends reinforcements to British North America.
• December 23 – The UK demands release of Confederate diplomats taken from Trent.
• December 26 – Confederate diplomats taken from Trent released.

Births

January to June

Lomer Gouin

• January 15 – Joseph-Mathias Tellier, politician (died 1952)
• March 10 – Pauline Johnson, poet, writer and performer (died 1913)
• March 10 – Clifford Sifton, politician and Minister (died 1929)
• March 19 – Lomer Gouin, politician and 13th Premier of Quebec (died 1929)
• March 20 – Herménégilde Boulay, politician (died 1942)
• May 13 – Margaret Marshall Saunders, writer
• April 15 – Bliss Carman, poet (died 1929)
• June 7 – George Henry Murray, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (died 1929)

Deaths

• February 3 – Louis-Théodore Besserer, notary, soldier, politician, and businessman (born 1785)
• February 13 – Denis-Benjamin Viger, politician, businessman and politician (born 1774)
• November 9 – Howard Douglas, soldier, educator, author, inventor, and colonial administrator (born 1776)