Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• 1852 to 1853 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.
• July 8 - Beginning of a fire which burns 11,000 houses in Montreal.
• October - The Bank of Montreal issues notes like the Bank of England's; denomination water-marked.
• Laval's Seminaire du Quebec founds Université Laval, North America's oldest French Language university.

Deaths