1864 in Canada

Events from the year 1864 in Canada.

Incumbents

June 29 – St-Hilaire train disaster : A train of newly arrived immigrants fails to stop at the open swing span near Beloeil, Canada East. The Grand Trunk Railway train runs into the Richelieu River, killing 99.
June 30 – Macdonald-Cartier "Great Coalition" government formed.
July 18 – US Civil War: North-South negotiations begin at Niagara Falls, New York
September 1 – September 9: Charlottetown Conference, noted as the first step towards Confederation
September 19 – Confederate agents use Canada as base for attempt to free Confederate prisoners of war on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie.
October 10 – October 27: Quebec Conference, identified 72 resolutions for the British North America Act, 1867
October 19 – St. Albans Raid

January 11 – Henry Marshall Tory, Canadian university founder
February 15 – Sir William Howard Hearst, politician and 7th Premier of Ontario
March 31 – J. J. Kelso, journalist and social activist
July 27 – Ernest Howard Armstrong, journalist, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia
October 3 – William Robson, politician
October 8 – Ozias Leduc, painter
November 9 – James Alexander Murray, politician and Premier of New Brunswick
November 24 – John Wesley Brien, physician and politician
December 14 – Henry Edgarton Allen, politician