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1880 in Canada
Events from the year 1880 in Canada.
Incumbents edit
Crown edit
Federal government edit
- Governor General – John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne
- Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald
- Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick)
- Parliament – 4th
Provincial governments edit
Lieutenant governors edit
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Albert Norton Richards
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Joseph-Édouard Cauchon
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Edward Barron Chandler (until February 6) then Robert Duncan Wilmot (from February 11)
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Adams George Archibald
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Donald Alexander Macdonald (until July 1) then John Beverley Robinson
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Thomas Heath Haviland
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Théodore Robitaille
Premiers edit
- Premier of British Columbia – George Anthony Walkem
- Premier of Manitoba – John Norquay
- Premier of New Brunswick – John James Fraser
- Premier of Nova Scotia – Simon Hugh Holmes
- Premier of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – William Wilfred Sullivan
- Premier of Quebec – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
Territorial governments edit
Lieutenant governors edit
Events edit
- February 4 – Five members of the Donnelly family are killed near Lucan, Ontario
- February 14 – The wife of the governor general, The Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne, is seriously injured when the viceregal sleigh overturns on a Rudolph Ottawa street.
- March 25 – George Brown fatally shot by a disgruntled employee
- May 4 – Edward Blake becomes the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
- June 24 – "O Canada" first performed
- July 16 – The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts is established
- October 9 – The United Kingdom gives Canada control of the Arctic Archipelago.
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- Emily Stowe becomes the first woman doctor to practise medicine in Canada
- Sanford Fleming becomes chancellor of Queen's University
- Bell Canada founded
- Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). British-backed Canadian firm, headed by US railroad building genius (Sir William Cornelius Van Horne) gets the deal: $25 million, 25 million acres (100,000 km2), already completed sections free, all under-construction sections finished free, 20 year monopoly as only railway and 20-year control over rate-setting.
- The Varsity, created.
Arts and literature edit
- March 6 – The Royal Academy for the Arts is founded.
New books edit
- Charles G.D. Roberts, Orion and Other Poems
Births edit
- January 17 – Mack Sennett, actor, producer, screenwriter and film director (d.1960)
- January 18 – Richard Squires, politician and Prime Minister of Newfoundland (d.1940)
- March 22 – Allison Dysart, politician, lawyer, judge and 21st Premier of New Brunswick (d.1962)
- April 13 – Charles Christie, motion picture studio owner (d.1955)
- August 6 – Leland Payson Bancroft, politician (d.1951)
- August 12 – Jacob Penner, politician (d.1965)
- August 14 – Percival Molson, athlete and soldier (d.1917)
- August 29 – Marie-Louise Meilleur, supercentenarian, the oldest validated Canadian ever (d.1998)
- October 12 – Healey Willan, organist and composer (d.1968)
- October 27 – Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, businessman, politician and Governor General of Canada (d.1956)
Deaths edit
- January 19 – James Westcott, American-born United States Senator from Florida from 1845 till 1849 (born 1802)
- February 6 – Edward Barron Chandler, politician (b.1800)
- May 9 – George Brown, journalist, politician and one of the Fathers of the Confederation (b.1818)
- June 12 – William Evan Price, businessman and politician (b.1827)
- October 8 – Caleb Hopkins, farmer and politician (b.1785)
- October 18 – Luc-Hyacinthe Masson, physician, businessman and politician (b.1811)
- December 8 – Charles Fisher, politician and 1st Premier of the Colony of New Brunswick (b.1808)
- December 24 – David Christie, politician (b.1818)
Historical documents edit
Statute creates Canadian Pacific Railway as government-supported private company for benefit of B.C. and N.W.T.[2]
Chief Ocean Man and another Nakoda (Stoney) describe attack on their people by Gros Ventre and Mandan from U.S. side of border[3]
British order-in-council transfers Arctic islands to Dominion of Canada [4]
Editorial on complaints of French-Canadians[5]
Walt Whitman calls Thousand Islands most beautiful place on Earth[6]
To avoid bankruptcy caused by westward expansion, Canada must declare independence[7]
Britain gifts part of HMS Resolute to U.S. for saving that Arctic exploration ship [8]
Painting: Trapper approaches animal caught in leghold trap[9]
References edit
- ^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ^ An Act Respecting the Canadian Pacific Railway Accessed 14 October 2019
- ^ "No. 343; (letter of) Sir Edward Thornton to Mr. (Wm. M.) Evarts(, Department of State, Washington)" Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States[....] (1882), pgs. 570-72. Accessed 8 December 2019 Subsequent correspondence
- ^ Gordon W. Smith, "The Transfer of Arctic Territories from Great Britain to Canada(...)" Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America, Vol. 14, No. 1 (1961), pgs. 62-3. Accessed 14 October 2019
- ^ "A Morbid Nationalism" Canadian Illustrated News (November 11, 1880), pg. 2. Accessed 27 September 2019
- ^ Walt Whitman's Diary in Canada (1904), pgs. 24-5. Accessed 27 September 2019
- ^ William Norris, "Canadian Nationality; A Present-Day Plea" Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review (February 1880), pgs. 113-18. Accessed 23 April 2020
- ^ United States Department of State, Index to the Executive Documents of the House of Representatives for the Third Session of the Forty-Sixth Congress, 1880-'81 (No. 354, August 26, 1880), pg. 525. Accessed 27 September 2019
- ^ Harry Bullock-Webster, "Got 'im at last; Fort McLeod 1880" (Fort McLeod, B.C.). Accessed 27 June 2021