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Events

• 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.
• February 23 - A description of the proposed bridge across the St. Lawrence is published.
• June 8 - Gavazzi riot, at Quebec, quelled by military.
• June 9 - Gavazzi lectures in Zion Church, Montreal; calls himself, not Protestant, but Christian. The Church being attacked, he calls for cheers for the Queen, and congratulates his hearers that free speech is maintained. Major Wilson reads the Riot Act, but he and Lieut.-Col. Hogarth, 26th Rifles, who alone had a right, deny giving orders to fire. Col. Hogarth praises Captain Cameron, for striking up his Company's guns, at the risk of his life. About 40 are killed or wounded.
• June 18 - The Grand Trunk Railway is opened to Portland.
• June 26 - Investigation of the riot proceeds, at Montreal.
• July - Irregular calling of jurors delays trial for riot.
• First RR is built, mostly through US to Portland Maine from Montreal. Grand Trunk RR is chartered.

Deaths