1848 in Canada

Events

• January 2 - Maple sugar is made in St. Anselme.
• January 15 - Wellington and Commissioners streets in Montreal are flooded.
• January 27 - Ploughing about Bathurst and Beckwith.
• March 4 - The so-called Great Ministry of Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine begins.
• May 15 - MP's vote themselves 50 pounds each for 25 days.
• July 5 - Run on the Savings Bank, Montreal, followed by re-deposit.
• September 20 - Opening of the Jesuits' College, Montreal.
• First telegraph lines in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
• Responsible government established in Nova Scotia and the Canadas.

Births

• January 19 - John Fitzwilliam Stairs, politician
• February 4 - James Brien, politician
• February 24 - Grant Allen, artist
• March 7 - Isidore-Noël Belleau, politician
• March 24 - Honoré Beaugrand, journalist
• April 14 - James Walker, jurist
• April 23 - George Clift King, Mayor of Calgary
• May 20 - Joseph-Aldéric Ouimet, politician
• July 18 - Hugh Graham, newspaper publisher
• November 24 - William Stevens Fielding, Premier of Nova Scotia

Deaths