1867 in Canada
Events from the year 1867 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
January to June
Governors
- Governor General of Canada – Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – vacant
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – [Sir William Williams, 1st Canadian Parliament|1st Baronet, of Kars|Sir William Fenwick Williams]
Premiers
- Premier of Canada – Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau
- Premier of New Brunswick – Peter Mitchell
- Premier of Nova Scotia – Charles Tupper
July to December
Federal government
- Governor General – Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck
- Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald
- Parliament – 1st
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Charles Hastings Doyle then Francis Pym Harding
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Sir William Fenwick Williams then Charles Hastings Doyle
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Henry William Stisted
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau
Premiers
- Premier of New Brunswick – Andrew Rainsford Wetmore
- Premier of Nova Scotia – Hiram Blanchard then William Annand
- Premier of Ontario – John Sandfield Macdonald
- Premier of Quebec – Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau
Events
- February 16 – John A. Macdonald marries his second wife Susan Agnes Bernard.
- March 29 – Queen Victoria gives royal assent to the British North America Act, 1867.
- July 1
- *The Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick are united into the Dominion of Canada by the British North America Act.
- *Sir John A. Macdonald becomes the first prime minister of the Dominion of Canada.
- *The Windsor Police Service is established.
- July 4 – Hiram Blanchard becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Charles Tupper.
- July 15 – Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau becomes the first premier of Quebec.
- July 16 – J. S. Macdonald becomes the first premier of Ontario.
- August 7 – September 20 – The 1867 Canadian election sees John A. Macdonald's Conservatives elected as government.
- September 3 – The 1867 Ontario election: J. S. Macdonald Liberal-Conservatives win a minority.
- September 18 – The 1867 Nova Scotia election
- November 6 – The 1st Canadian Parliament meets.
- November 7 – William Annand becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Hiram Blanchard.
- December 7 – The first federal budget is presented by Finance Minister John Rose.
Full date unknown
- Andrew R. Wetmore becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Peter Mitchell.
- The 1867 Quebec election
- The Parliamentary Press Gallery is established.
- Fall: Henry Seth Taylor steam buggy debuts at the Stanstead Fall Fair in Quebec, believed to be Canada's first car.
Births
- January 25 – Simon Fraser Tolmie, politician and 21st Premier of British Columbia
- February 2 – Charles E. Saunders, agronomist
- February 7 – John Livingstone Brown, politician
- February 20 – Flora Denison, feminist
- March 5 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, politician and 14th Premier of Quebec
- March 31 – Noah Timmins, mining developer and executive
- June 30 – Napoléon Turcot, politician
- August 9 – Charles Ballantyne, politician
- October 19 – Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie, feminist and social activist
- October 27 – Thomas Walter Scott, Politician and first Premier of Saskatchewan
- November 1 – Newton Rowell, lawyer and politician
- December 3 – William John Bowser, politician and Premier of British Columbia
Deaths
- July 23 – Samuel Harrison, farmer, lawyer, mill owner, politician, judge and 1st Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada
- August 25 – Pierre-Flavien Turgeon, Archbishop of Quebec
- September 7 – Jesse Ketchum, tanner, politician, and philanthropist
- November 1 – John Strachan, first Anglican Bishop of Toronto
- December 10 – Edward Whelan, journalist and politician