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EVENTS

January 1 - King's College becomes the University Of Toronto

February 10 - The Governor, Ministers, MPs and Montreal's council visit St. Hyacinthe , on the St. Lawrence Abd Atlantic Railway .

April 7 - A large fire engulfs Toronto 's downtown section. Started at 1am of an unknown cause, it started behind a tavern in the market section catching some hay then spreading rapidly before destroying numerous buildings, including St. James cathedral. Flames could be seen from across Lake Ontario at St. Catharines , 40km distant.

April 25 - For sanctioning the Rebellion Losses Bill , Lord Elgin is mobbed by Tories and the Parliament House in Montreal is burned.

May - The Hayes House in Dalhousie Square , leased for Parliamentary purposes. The parliament is to sit alternately in Quebec City and Toronto .

May 29 - Gen. Rowan, Administrator.

December 26 - Electors ask J. McConnell , M.P.P. for Stanstead, if he favors annexation, which they believe will, alone, relieve depression.

The Beauharnois Canal , just southwest of Montreal is opened.

The boundary at the 49th Parallel is extended to the Pacific Ocean (bisecting Point Roberts, Washington ).

The Courthouse Rebellion is launched by the Red River Métis .

An Act of Amnesty provides for William Lyon Mackenzie 's return from exile in the U.S.

BIRTHS

January 5 - Sam Steele , police officer

February 21 - Edouard-Gaston Deville , surveyor

May 6 - Wyatt Eaton , artist

July 12 - William Osler , physician

July 22 - Charles Mickle , Manitoba politician

August 1 - George Mercer Dawson , explorer/surveyor of Canadian Rockies and Western Canada

October 17 - Sir William Mackenzie , railway entrepreneur

November 13 - Charles Constantine , police officer

November 20 - Francis Longworth Haszard , Premier of PEI

November 30 - Lemuel J. Tweedie , Premier of New Brunswick

December 18 - Henrietta Edwards , feminist

DEATHS