1871 in Canada
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Events from the year 1871 in Canada.
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[edit] Events
[edit] January to June
- March 10 - Government of Manitoba meets for the first time
- March 21 - Ontario election: Edward Blake's Liberals win a majority, defeating J. S. Macdonald's Liberal-Conservatives
- April 2 - The first Canadian census finds the population to be 3,689,257
- May 8 - The Treaty of Washington reaches agreements on fishing rights and Great Lakes trade between Canada and the United States
- May 17 - New Brunswick abandons separate schools.
[edit] July to December
- July - Phoebe Campbell murders her husband with an axe. She is hanged the next year.
- July 20 - British Columbia joins Confederation.
- July 25 - Treaty 1 the first of a number of treaties with western Canada's First Nations is signed
- August 17 - Treaty 2 is signed
- November 11 - The last of the British army leaves Canada
- November 13 - John McCreight becomes the first premier of British Columbia
- December 14 - Marc-Amable Girard becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Alfred Boyd
- December 20 - Edward Blake becomes premier of Ontario, replacing J. S. Macdonald.
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- National Meteorological Service is formed
- Parliament legalizes the use of the metric system
- Goldwin Smith immigrates to Canada
- Ontario Schools Act is passed in Ontario, requiring all students aged 7 to 12 to attend school.
[edit] Births
- January 30 - Wilfred Lucas, actor, film director and screenwriter (d.1940)
- May 14 - Walter Stanley Monroe, businessman, politician and Prime Minister of Newfoundland (d.1952)
- July 16 - George Stewart Henry, politician and 10th Premier of Ontario (d.1958)
- July 25 - Richard Ernest William Turner, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (d.1961)
- August 4 - Robert Hamilton Butts, politician (d.1943)
- September 9 - Hugh Robson, politician and judge
- October 31 - Alexander Stirling MacMillan, businessman, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1955)
- December 2 - Stanislas Blanchard, politician (d.1949)
- December 13 - Emily Carr, artist and writer (d.1945)
[edit] Deaths
- September 23 - Louis-Joseph Papineau, lawyer, politician and reformist (b.1786)
