Events from the year 1864 in Canada.

This article needs additional citations for verification. (April 2015)

Quick Facts Decades:, See also: ...

← 1863 1862 1861 1864 in Canada → 1865 1866 1867
Decades:	1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s
See also:	History of Canada Timeline of Canadian history List of years in Canada

Close

• June 29 – St-Hilaire train disaster : A train of newly arrived immigrants fails to stop at the open swing span near Beloeil, Canada East. The Grand Trunk Railway train runs into the Richelieu River, killing 99.
• June 30 – Macdonald-Cartier "Great Coalition" government formed.
• July 18 – US Civil War: North-South negotiations begin at Niagara Falls, New York
• September 1 – September 9: Charlottetown Conference, noted as the first step towards Confederation^[2]
• September 19 – Confederate agents use Canada as base for attempt to free Confederate prisoners of war on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie.
• October 10 – October 27: Quebec Conference,^[3] identified 72 resolutions for the British North America Act, 1867
• October 19 – St. Albans Raid.^[4]

• January 11 – Henry Marshall Tory,^[5] Canadian university founder (died 1947)
• February 15^[6] – Sir William Howard Hearst, politician and 7th Premier of Ontario (died 1941)
• March 31 – J. J. Kelso,^[7] journalist and social activist (died 1935)
• July 27 – Ernest Howard Armstrong, journalist, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (died 1946)
• October 3 – William Robson, politician (died 1941)
• October 8 – Ozias Leduc,^[8] painter (died 1955)
• November 9 – James Alexander Murray, politician and Premier of New Brunswick (died 1960)
• November 24^[9] – John Wesley Brien, physician and politician (died 1949)
• December 14 – Henry Edgarton Allen, politician

• February 20 – Rose Fortune,^[10] entrepreneur (born 1774)
• February 26 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, politician (born 1807)
• April 29 – Abraham Pineo Gesner, physician and surgeon, geologist, and inventor (born 1797)

Report from a Confederate agent in Canada (including failed breakout at Johnson's Island POW camp)^[11]

Brief account of Confederate agents' raid on St. Albans, Vermont^[12]

Consequences in the U.S.A. follow the freeing of the St. Albans raiders by a Canadian court^[13]

Canadian in the Union Army describes desperate Confederate assaults at Battle of Franklin, Tennessee ^[14]

Illustration: Battle of Franklin^[15]

Intelligence reports that Greek fire is being manufactured at Windsor, Ontario for burning Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit and other U.S. cities^[16]

Halifax, Nova Scotia sends a message of support to President Lincoln^[17]

Speaker in Montreal argues the U.S.A. is not hostile toward Canada ^[18]

Excerpts from George Brown's letter describing the Charlottetown Conference^[19]

Good prospects for the port of Collingwood, Canada West^[20]