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EVENTS

  • January 30 - Lord Elgin , Governor, arrives at Montreal.

  • September 1 - Lord Elgin visits the immigrant 'fever' sheds at Pointe St. Charles , Montreal.

  • October 18 - Telegraph Line from Quebec to London , Canada West , complete.

  • October 23 - 65 immigrants die in a week at Pointe St. Charles neigbourhood of Montreal.

  • November 1 - 9,634 deaths of immigrants since 1st Jan.

  • The railway from Montreal to Lachine is opened.

  • St. Lawrence canal system completed. Faster and cheaper than US system, but growing US railroads are now the real threat.

  • Typhus outbreak as over 3,000 immmigrants arrive in Bytown (Ottawa) in the height of summer. The Rideau Canal is shutdown to prevent further spread of the outbreak. 167 die in quarantine.

  • Outbreak of Measles among the Cayuse of the Pacific Northwest .

  • Fort Yukon established.



BIRTHS


Date unknown: on ''Grosse Ile'', there was a tragedy that killed thousands of Irish immigrants who were trying to escape the tyrannic laws of England, the plague, and a famine raging Ireland.