• April 7 – United Kingdom-United States treaty for suppression of African slave trade is signed. • May 20 –
Macdonald-
Cartier government falls. Free interprovincial trade granted by the Crown. • August 2 –
Victoria, British Columbia, is incorporated as a city
Full date unknown • The first female
student is accepted into
Mount Allison University in
Sackville, New Brunswick • The
1862 Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic sweeps through Fort Victoria area and up the length of the northwest coast, killing an estimated 20,000 First Nations people •
William Duncan, an Anglican missionary on the northwest coast, establishes the village of Metlakatla with 50
Tsimshian followers, who adopt the Christian faith and a European lifestyle. By 1880, more than 1,000 converts live there. • Construction begins on the
Cariboo Wagon Road to link coastal shipping to
Barkerville and the
Cariboo goldfields. ==Births==