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1856 In Canada , Other Events Of 1857 , 1858 In Canada and the Timeline Of Canadian History .

EVENTS

March 12 - The bridge over Desjardins Canal, near Hamilton, Canada West , collapses under a Great Western Railway passenger train. About 60 people die.

December 31 - Ottawa is chosen as the new capital of the Canadas

Grand Trunk RR ( Windsor - Montreal ) completed, but $7 million in debt.

Queen Victoria names Ottawa as capital of the Province Of Canada .

The Palliser Expedition begins its exploration of Western Canada.

Coal mining begins at Coal Harbor on the Kenai Peninsula.

BIRTHS

February 2 - Alexander C. Rutherford , Premier of Alberta

February 16 - Charles Clarke , psychologist

February 25 - Robert Bond , Premier of Newfoundland

February 26 - Adelaide Hoodless , feminist

June 20 - Adam Beck , politician

July 20 - Lionel Herbert Clarke , Lieutenant Governor of Ontario

July 22 - Louis Taylor , Mayor of Vancouver

July 27 - Ann Stowe-Gullen , doctor

August 15 - Theodore Arthur Burrows , Manitoba politician

August 15 - John Strathearn Hendrie , politician

September 12 - George Halsey Perley , politician

October 10 - George J. Clark , Premier of New Brunswick

November 25 - Frederick W. A. G. Haultain , Premier of the Northwest Territories

DEATHS

February 10 - David Thompson dies in Montreal.