1877 in Canada
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Events from the year 1877 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
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 Brunswickhad 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
- Minister of Agriculture and called to the Senate of Canada
- Manzo Nagano was the first official Japanese immigrant into Canada
- Great Sioux War
- Sir Minister of Inland Revenue
- The provincial legislature creates the University of Manitoba, the oldest University in western Canada.
Births
- 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 – 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
- ^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ^ "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
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ "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
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ 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