1857 in Canada
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See also: 1856 in Canada, other events of 1857, 1858 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.

Events

• March 12 - The bridge over Desjardins Canal, near Hamilton, Canada West, collapses under a Great Western Railway passenger train. About 60 people die.
• December 31 - Ottawa is chosen as the new capital of the Canadas
• Grand Trunk Railway (Windsor-Montreal) completed, but $7 million in debt.
• Queen Victoria names Ottawa as capital of the Province of Canada.
• The Palliser Expedition begins its exploration of Western Canada.
• Coal mining begins at Coal Harbor on the Kenai Peninsula.

Births

• February 2 - Alexander C. Rutherford, Premier of Alberta
• February 16 - Charles Clarke, psychologist
• February 25 - Robert Bond, Premier of Newfoundland
• February 26 - Adelaide Hoodless, feminist
• March 17 - Willis Keith Baldwin, politician
• June 20 - Adam Beck, politician
• July 20 - Lionel Herbert Clarke, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
• July 22 - Louis Taylor, Mayor of Vancouver
• July 27 - Ann Stowe-Gullen, doctor
• August 15 - Theodore Arthur Burrows, Manitoba politician
• August 15 - John Strathearn Hendrie, politician
• September 12 - George Halsey Perley, politician
• October 10 - George J. Clark, Premier of New Brunswick
• November 25 - Frederick W. A. G. Haultain, Premier of the Northwest Territories

Deaths

• February 10 - David Thompson dies in Montreal.
• Isabella Clark - wife of Sir John A. Macdonald.