1853 in Canada

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Events from the year 1853 in Canada.

• Monarch — Victoria^[1]

• Parliament: 4th

• Governor General of the Province of Canada — James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
• Colonial Governor of Newfoundland — Charles Henry Darling
• Governor of New Brunswick — Edmund Walker Head
• Governor of Nova Scotia — John Gaspard Le Marchant
• Governor of Prince Edward Island — Dominick Daly

• Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada —
  • Francis Hincks, Canada West Premier
  • Augustin-Norbert Morin, Canada East Premier
• Premier of Nova Scotia — James Boyle Uniacke
• Premier of Prince Edward Island — John Holl

• February 23 – A description of the proposed bridge across the St. Lawrence is published.
• June 6 – Gavazzi Riot in Quebec are quelled by military.^[2]
• June 26 – Investigation of the riot proceeds, at Montreal.
• July – Irregular calling of jurors delays trial for riot.
• July 15 – The Grand Trunk Railway merges numerous smaller Canadian railways into a conglomerate, while also leasing an American railway, the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad, giving it access to the year-round Atlantic port at Portland, Maine.^[3]

• Mary Ann Shadd becomes the first woman in North America to become editor of a newspaper. Working out of Chatham, Ontario, she publishes, edits and writes in the Provincial Freeman, a newspaper serving the Black community in Ontario.
• Russian explorer-trappers find oil seeps in Cook Inlet.

• February 15 – Rodmond Roblin, businessman, politician and 9th Premier of Manitoba (died 1937)
• March 23 – Donald Mann, railway contractor and entrepreneur (died 1934)
• July 18 – William McGuigan, politician and 10th Mayor of Vancouver (died 1908)
• August 10 – Pierre-Évariste Leblanc, politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (died 1918)
• September 25 – Henry Emmerson, lawyer, businessman, politician, philanthropist and 8th Premier of New Brunswick (died 1914)
• November 13 – Joseph Boutin Bourassa, politician (died 1943)
• December 19 – Charles Fitzpatrick, lawyer, politician and 5th Chief Justice of Canada (died 1942)

• February 5 – Thomas Talbot, army and militia officer, settlement promoter, office holder, and politician (born 1771)
• March 31 – William Crane, merchant, justice of the peace, judge, and politician (born 1785)
• June 7 – Norbert Provencher, clergyman, missionary and Bishop (born 1787)
• June 28 – Benjamin Eby, Mennonite bishop and founder of Ebytown in Upper Canada (born 1785)
• July 11 – William Allan, banker and politician (born 1770)
• November 8 – Friedrich Gaukel, farmer, distiller and innkeeper who helped to transform the pioneer settlement of Ebytown into Berlin, Ontario^[4]