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Events from the year '''1853 in Canada'''.
==Incumbents== *Monarch — Victoria<ref>{{cite web |title=Queen Victoria {{!}} The Canadian Encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/victoria# |website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca |access-date=5 December 2022}}</ref>
===Federal government=== *Parliament: 4th
===Governors=== *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
===Premiers=== *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
==Events== *February 23 – A description of the proposed bridge across the St. Lawrence is published. *June 6 – Gavazzi Riot in Quebec are quelled by military.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Aspinwall |first=Bernard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Ou_cQAACAAJ |title=Rev. Alessandro Gavazzi (1808-1889) and Scottish Identity: A Chapter in Nineteenth Century Anti-catholicism |date=2006 |publisher=Catholic Record Society |language=en}}</ref> *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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm |title=Significant Dates in Canadian Railway History |first=Colin |last=Churcher website |access-date=2011-08-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060829044454/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm |archive-date=2006-08-29 }}</ref>
===Full date unknown=== *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.
==Births== *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)
==Deaths== *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<ref>{{Cite web |title=Biography – GAUKEL, FRIEDRICH – Volume VIII (1851-1860) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gaukel_friedrich_8E.html |access-date=2022-11-18 |website=www.biographi.ca}}</ref>
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