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Events

• The boundary at the 49th parallel is extended to the Pacific Ocean (bisecting Point Roberts, Washington).
• Courthouse Rebellion in Canada launched by the Red River Metis.
• An Act of Amnesty provides for William Lyon Mackenzie's return from exile in the U.S.
• January - The people of St. Jean Chrysostome favor abolishing the feudal tenure.
• January 20 - Lake Superior copper is to be smelted there.
• February 10 - The Governor, Ministers, M. P.'s and Montreal's Council visit St. Hyacinthe, on the St. L. & A. Railway.
• April 25 - For sanctioning the Rebellion Losses Bill, Lord Elgin is mobbed and the Parliament House is burned.
• May - The Hayes House, Dalhousie Square, leased for Parliamentary purposes. Parliament to sit, alternately, in Quebec and Toronto.
• May 29 - Gen. Rowan, Administrator.
• July - The Sherbrooke factory makes 4,500 yds. of cotton.
• August - Canada is to have 3 penny postage. The annexation movement, started in Montreal, is opposed in Toronto. Officers who signed the manifesto are dismissed and Queen's Counsel lose their silk gowns.
• December 26 - Electors ask J. McConnell, M.P.P. for Stanstead, if he favors annexation, which they believe will, alone, relieve depression.
• Beauharnois Canal is opened.

Deaths