1877 in Canada

Events from the year 1877 in Canada.

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See also:	History of Canada Timeline of Canadian history List of years in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Victoria^[1]

Federal government

• Governor General – Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood
• Prime Minister – Alexander Mackenzie
• Chief Justice – William Buell Richards (Ontario)
• Parliament – 3rd

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Albert Norton Richards
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Alexander Morris (until October 8) then Joseph-Édouard Cauchon
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley
• Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – David Laird
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Adams George Archibald
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Donald Alexander Macdonald
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Robert Hodgson
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Luc Letellier de St-Just

Premiers

• Premier of British Columbia – Andrew Charles Elliott
• Premier of Manitoba – Robert Atkinson Davis
• Premier of New Brunswick – George Edwin King
• Premier of Nova Scotia – Philip Carteret Hill
• Premier of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Louis Henry Davies
• Premier of Quebec – Charles Boucher de Boucherville

Territorial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – Alexander Morris (until October 8) then Joseph-Édouard Cauchon
• Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories – David Laird

Events

• February 28 – University of Manitoba founded.
• June 20 – The Great Fire of Saint John, New Brunswick had destroyed over 80 hectares (200 acres) and 1,612 structures including eight churches, six banks, fourteen hotels, eleven schooners and four wood boats.
• September 22 – Treaty 7 signed.

Full date unknown

• Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier appointed Minister of Agriculture and called to the Senate of Canada
• Manzo Nagano was the first official Japanese immigrant into Canada
• Refugee Lakota enter Canada near the end of the Great Sioux War
• Sir Wilfrid Laurier is appointed Canadian Minister of Inland Revenue
• The provincial legislature creates the University of Manitoba, the oldest University in western Canada.

Births

 

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• January 5 – Edgar Nelson Rhodes, politician, Minister and Premier of Nova Scotia (died 1942)
• March 25 – Walter Little, politician (died 1961)
• May 23 – Fred Wellington Bowen, politician (died 1949)
• July 23 – Aimé Boucher, politician and notary (died 1946)
• August 5 – Tom Thomson, artist (died 1917)
• August 29 – George Arthur Brethen, politician (died 1968)
• October 16 – H. H. Couzens, electrical engineer (died 1944)
• November 19 – John Alexander Macdonald Armstrong, politician (died 1926)
• December 15 – John Thomas Haig, politician (died 1962)
• December 18 – James Allison Glen, politician, Minister and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (died 1950)
• December 26 – Aldéric-Joseph Benoit, politician (died 1968)

Deaths

• January 2 – Jonathan McCully, politician (born 1809)
• May 4 – Charles Wilson, politician (born 1808)
• July 12 – Amand Landry, farmer and politician (born 1805)
• November 3 – William Henry Draper, politician, lawyer, and judge (born 1801)
• November 7 – Joseph-Octave Beaubien, physician and politician (born 1825)
• November 8 – John Cook, politician Ontarian (born 1791)

Historical documents

"Great irregularities" - House of Commons committee finds inefficiency, lethargy and political influence rife in federal civil service^[2]

U.S. government report on commerce in the Province of Ontario^[3]

Archbishop Taché backs denominational schools in Manitoba^[4]

Editorial on the continual exodus of Quebeckers to the U.S.A.^[5]

Information pamphlet on a British agricultural colonization scheme for Western Canada^[6]

Lecturer says the rights and equality of women are necessary to society^[7]

Sitting Bull rejects the offer of a pardon and return to the U.S.A.^[8]

References

1. "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
2. "Report" (April 27, 1877), Report of the Select Committee Appointed to Inquire into the Present Condition of the Civil Service, pgs. 3-5. Accessed 7 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_0304_1_1/9?r=0&s=1
3. U.S. Department of State, "No. 29; Mr. Shaw to Mr. Seward," Index to the Executive Documents of the House of Representatives for the Second Session of the Forty-Fifth Congress, 1877-'78 (1877-1878), pgs. 91-9. Accessed 16 September 2018 http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=turn&id=FRUS.FRUS187778v01&entity=FRUS.FRUS187778v01.p0825
4. Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Denominational or Free Christian Schools in Manitoba (Winnipeg: "Standard" Book & Job Printing Establishment, 1877). Accessed 16 September 2018 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/819.html
5. "The Exodus of Our People," Canadian Illustrated News (Montreal, May 5, 1877), pg. 274. Accessed 16 September 2018 http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/frncdns/docs/ExodusfromCanada.html
6. John W. Down, The Manitoban and Great North-West Colony: Explanation of its Advantages and Objects (Bristol, England: Jeffries & Sons, Printers, 1877). Accessed 16 September 2018 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/804/4.html
7. Charles Albert Counter, Mr. Counter's Celebrated Lecture on "Woman's Rights." Accessed 16 September 2018 https://archive.org/stream/cihm_03617#page/n5/mode/2up
8. U.S. Sitting Bull Indian Commission, Report of the Commission Appointed...to Meet the Sioux Indian Chief, Sitting Bull, with a View to Avert Hostile Incursions into the Territory of the United States from the Dominion of Canada. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1877), pg. 8. Accessed 16 September 2018 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/821/10.html