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See also: 1863 in Canada, other events of 1864, 1865 in Canada.

Events from the year 1864 in Canada.

[edit] Events

• June 29 - 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 - 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 Island in Lake Erie.
• October 10-October 27: Quebec Conference, identified 72 resolutions for the British North America Act
• October 19 - St. Albans Raid.

[edit] Births

William Howard Hearst

• February 15 - William Howard Hearst, politician and 7th Premier of Ontario (d.1941)
• March 31 - J. J. Kelso, journalist and social activist (d.1935)
• July 27 - Ernest Howard Armstrong, journalist, politician and Premier of Manitoba (d.1946)
• October 3 - William Robson, politician
• October 8 - Ozias Leduc, painter (d.1955)
• November 9 - James Alexander Murray, politician and Premier of New Brunswick (d.1960)
• November 24 - John Wesley Brien, physician and politician (d.1949)
• December 14 - Henry Edgarton Allen, politician

[edit] Full date unknown

• Kit Coleman, journalist (d.1915)

[edit] Deaths