1855 in Canada

Events from the year 1855 in Canada.

Incumbents

 * Monarch — Victoria

Federal government

 * Parliament — 5th

Governors

 * Governor General of the Province of Canada — Edmund Walker Head

Premiers

 * Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada —
 * Canada West Premier
 * Sir Allan Napier MacNab, until May 24, 1856
 * Sir John A. Macdonald, from May 24, 1856
 * Canada East Premier
 * Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché

British North America Colonies

 * Colonial Governor of Newfoundland — Charles Henry Darling
 * Premier of Newfoundland — Philip Francis Little
 * Governor of Nova Scotia — John Gaspard Le Marchant
 * Premier of Nova Scotia — William Young
 * Governor of New Brunswick — John Manners-Sutton
 * Premier of New Brunswick — Charles Fisher
 * Governor of Prince Edward Island — Dominick Daly
 * Premier of Prince Edward Island — John Holl

Events

 * British Empire's Crimean War continues, British troops being withdrawn
 * Albert Salter surveys the North Shore of Lake Huron, following the signing of the Robinson-Huron Treaty in 1850.
 * January 1 – Bytown is renamed Ottawa.
 * March 8 – A bridge over the Niagara River near Niagara Falls is completed
 * April 11 – The Militia Act of 1855 is passed in the Parliament of the Province of Canada
 * April 17 – Charlottetown incorporated as a city
 * May 19 - The Militia Act is proclaimed
 * August 17 – The Charlottetown Police Department is established
 * August 31 – The First Volunteer Militia units are formed, by year end 21 Companies have been formed.
 * November 19 – The first section of the Grand Trunk Railway's original Toronto–Montreal mainline is completed between Montreal and Brockville.

Full date unknown

 * 1855 Newfoundland general election

Births

 * January 14 – Homer Watson, artist (died 1936)
 * February 22 – Grace Annie Lockhart, first woman in the British Empire to receive a Bachelor's degree (died 1916)
 * March 5 – Nérée Le Noblet Duplessis, politician, 19th Mayor of Trois-Rivières and father of 16th Premier of Quebec Maurice Duplessis (died 1926)
 * May 11 – Charles Doherty, politician and jurist (died 1931)
 * July 29 – Bowman Brown Law, politician (died 1916)
 * August 3 – Charles Hibbert Tupper, politician (died 1927)
 * September 12 – Simon-Napoléon Parent, politician and Premier of Quebec (died 1920)
 * December 14 – William Brymner, art teacher and painter (died 1925)

Deaths

 * July 7 – Henry Sherwood, lawyer, local politician and 4th Premier of Canada West (born 1802)