1865 in Canada

Events from the year 1865 in Canada.

Incumbents

February 3 – Legislature approves message to Crown for union of British North America provinces.
February 20 – The Legislature of the Province of Canada passes a motion in favour of Confederation.
March 7 – New Brunswick rejects a Confederation scheme.
March 24 – Macdonald, Brown, Cartier, and Galt appointed to negotiate Confederation in London.
May 9 – American Civil War ends
May 10 – An Admiralty letter to the Colonial Office required colonial warships to "wear a Union Jack in the usual place, and the White Ensign, with either the Arms of the Colony, or such other distinguishing mark as may be chosen by the Colony, and approved by the Colonial Office and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty". This regulation was mainly directed at Australia and not applicable to Canada, which had no Navy at that time.
October 20 – Proclamation of Ottawa as seat of government.
November 7 – 1865 Newfoundland general election
December 16 – A distinctive Blue Ensign for the province of Canada is authorized by the UK secretary of state for the colonies.
December 22 – Colonial Office Circular notifying revised Admiralty requirements for flags for colonial warships and for other colonial government vessels and requesting correct drawings of seals or badges to be adopted as distinguishing marks.

January 7 – Lyman Duff, jurist and Chief Justice of Canada
February 10 – Richard Gardiner Willis, politician
February 28 – Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary
March 15 – Edith Maude Eaton, author
April 10 – Jack Miner, conservationist
May 31 – Clarence Chant, astronomer and physicist
July 16 – George Bowlby, physician and surgeon, military officer, and mayor of Berlin, Ontario
August 10 – James Wilson Morrice, painter
November 2 – Napoleon Lemay, politician
November 17 – John Stanley Plaskett, astronomer
December 25 – James Breakey, politician
December 30 — Emily Julian McManus poet, author, and educator

January 16 – Joseph Cunard, merchant, shipbuilder and politician
July 27 – Augustin-Norbert Morin, lawyer, judge, politician and Joint Premier of the Province of Canada
July 30 – Étienne-Paschal Taché, doctor, politician, and deputy adjutant-general of the militia
August 27 – Thomas Chandler Haliburton, author, judge and politician