1848 in Canada
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See also: 1847 in Canada, other events of 1848, 1849 in Canada and the list of 'years 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 24 - Grant Allen, artist
- 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