1852 in Canada

Events from the year 1852 in Canada.

Incumbents

 * Monarch — Victoria

Federal government

 * Parliament: 4th

Governors

 * Governor General of the Province of Canada — James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
 * Colonial Governor of Newfoundland — Charles Henry Darling
 * Governor of New Brunswick — Edmund Walker Head
 * Governor of Nova Scotia — John Harvey
 * Governor of Prince Edward Island — Dominick Daly

Premiers

 * Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada —
 * Francis Hincks, Canada West Premier
 * Augustin-Norbert Morin, Canada East Premier
 * Premier of Nova Scotia — James Boyle Uniacke
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island — John Holl

Events

 * January 15 – Trinity College opens.
 * 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.
 * October 25 – The Toronto Stock Exchange opens.
 * November 10 – The Grand Trunk Railway Company is incorporated to build a railway between Toronto and Montreal.
 * December 8 – Laval's Seminaire du Quebec founds Université Laval, North America's oldest French Language university.

Full date unknown

 * The 1852 Newfoundland general election occurs.

Births

 * January 1 – Alexander Bethune, politician and 12th Mayor of Vancouver (died 1947)
 * March 22 – Theodore Davie, lawyer, politician and 9th Premier of British Columbia (died 1898)
 * April 5 – Alexander Warburton, politician, jurist, author and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1929)
 * August 19 – John Andrew Davidson, politician (died 1903)
 * September 9 – Fletcher Bath Wade, politician and barrister (died 1905)
 * September 24 – Joseph Martin, lawyer, politician and 13th Premier of British Columbia (died 1923)
 * November 2 – Paul Tourigny, politician (died 1926)

Deaths

 * April 3 – Alexander Rankin, timber merchant, justice of the peace, politician, and office holder (born 1788)
 * November 3 – Francis Gore, colonial administrator (born 1769)