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1864 in Canada

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1864
in
Canada

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Events from the year 1864 in Canada.

Incumbents

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Crown

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Federal government

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Governors

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Premiers

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Events

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Births

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William Howard Hearst

Deaths

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Historical documents

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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]

References

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  1. ^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Birthplace of Confederation:The 1864 Charlottetown Conference". Archived from the original on 9 May 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  3. ^ "The Quebec Conference, October 1864". Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  4. ^ "The St, Albans Raid". Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  5. ^ Henry Marshall Tory
  6. ^ "William Howard Hearst". Mount Pleasant Group. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  7. ^ "John Joseph Kelso". Canada Channel. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  8. ^ "Ozias Leduc". 8 October 1864. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  9. ^ "Parliament of Canada". Archived from the original on 24 March 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  10. ^ "Rose Fortune-The Canadian Encyclopedia". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  11. ^ A Leaf from History; Report of J. Thompson, Secret Agent of the Late Confederate Government, Stationed in Canada(...) (Union Republican Congressional Committee). Accessed 8 September 2018
  12. ^ "Andrew Craig Fletcher to Andrew and Ruth Fletcher, 1864 October 20" Fletcher Family, Digital Collections, The University of Vermont Libraries. Accessed 20 September 2018
  13. ^ United States Department of State, "Raids from the British Province" Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-Ninth Congress (1865), pgs. 51-2. Accessed 8 September 2018
  14. ^ "Letter, Alonzo Wolverton to his sister Roseltha Wolverton Goble, December 4, 1864" Examples of Wolverton Family Letters from Darroch Donation, Archives of Ontario. Accessed 8 September 2018
  15. ^ Kurz & Allison, "Battle of Franklin. November 30, 1864-Union (Gen. Schofield) ... Conf. (Gen. Hood) ..." (1891). Accessed 23 September 2021
  16. ^ Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth Congress; Part I (1866), pgs. 36-7. Accessed 29 January 2020
  17. ^ United States Department of State, "To his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America" Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-Eighth Congress (1864), pgs. 126-7. Accessed 8 September 2018
  18. ^ Rev. John Cordner, Canada and the United States: An Address on the American Conflict(...) (1865). Accessed 8 September 2018
  19. ^ "George Brown describes the Charlottetown Conference, 1864" Canadian Confederation, Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 6 September 2021
  20. ^ "Opening of Navigation" Enterprise, Collingwood, C.W. Accessed 8 September 2018