1851 in Canada

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Events from the year 1851 in Canada.

Events

• April 7 - The first Canadian postage stamps are printed
• April 25 - Prince Edward Island wins responsible government
• June - Harbor Commissioners deepen Lake St. Peter.
• July - The bloomer costume appears in Montreal.
• August 30 - The Vancouver Island legislature meets for the first time
• October 11 - The St. L. & A. Railway is opened to Richmond.
• William Kennedy was commander of the second sponsored expedition to find Sir John Franklin

Full date unknown

• Gabriel Franchere's Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America published in Montreal.
• The United Kingdom transfers control of the colonial postal system to Canada.

Births

• April 7 - John Wilson Bengough, political cartoonist (died 1923)
• April 8 - Frederick Peters, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1919)
• May 22 - Gilbert Ganong, businessman, politician and Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (died 1917)
• July 8 - James Dunsmuir, industrialist, politician and Premier of British Columbia (died 1920)
• August 26 - Herbert James Palmer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1939)
• September 5 - George Frederick Baird, politician and lawyer (died 1899)
• November - Levi Addison Ault, businessman and naturalist (died 1930)
• November 25 - Francis Shepherd, surgeon
• November 28 - Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey, 9th Governor General of Canada (died 1917)
• December 10 - James Albert Manning Aikins, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (died 1929)