| See also: 1861 in Canada, other events of 1862, 1863 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.
Events
- The first female student was accepted into Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick
- Smallpox sweeps through Fort Victoria area and down the length of the Northwest
Coast, killing an estimated 200,000 Indian people - William Duncan, an Anglican missionary on Northwest Coast, establishes
village of Metlakatla with 50 Tsimshian followers, who adopt Christian faith and
European life-styles. By 1880 more than 1,000 converts live there.
- April 7 - Britain-United States treaty for suppression of African slave trade
signed.
- May 20 - Macdonald-Cartier government
falls. Free interprovincial trade granted by the Crown.
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