1876 in Canada
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Events from the year 1876 in Canada.
Incumbents
= Crown =
= Federal government =
= Provincial governments =
== Lieutenant governors ==
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Joseph Trutch (until June 27) then Albert Norton Richards
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Alexander Morris
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – David Laird (from October 7)
- 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 – René-Édouard Caron (until December 13) then Luc Letellier de St-Just (from December 15)
==== Premiers ====
- Premier of British Columbia – George Anthony Walkem (until February 1) then 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 – Lemuel Cambridge Owen (until August 1) then Louis Henry Davies
- Premier of Quebec – Charles Boucher de Boucherville
= Territorial governments =
== Lieutenant governors ==
Events
- January 1 – The building of Fredericton City Hall is completed
- February 1 – Andrew Elliott becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing George Walkem
- April 12 - The Indian Act is passed. Consolidating and expanding on existing Canadian laws, it defines the special status and land regulations of Aboriginal peoples in Canada who live on reserves; status Indians have no vote in Canadian elections and are exempt from taxes
- July 1 – The Intercolonial Railway connecting central Canada to the Maritimes is completed
- August – Sir Louis Henry Davies becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Lemuel Cambridge Owen
- August 10 – The world's first long-distance phone call connects the Bell residence with a shoe and boot store in nearby Paris, Ontario.
- August 23 – The first signings of Treaty 6. Further signings will be on August 28 and September 9.
- October 7 – The District of Keewatin (incorporating the disputed area between Ontario and Manitoba) is separated from the North-West Territories.
- October 10 – 1876 Prince Edward Island election: Lemuel Cambridge Owen's Conservatives win a second consecutive majority
=Full date unknown=
- The Toronto Women's Literary Club is founded as a front for the suffrage movement.
- The Legislative Council of Manitoba is abolished, and the legislature becomes unicameral.
Sport
- September 20 – The Ottawa Football Club (Ottawa Rough Riders) is established.
Births
=January to June=
- January 8 – Matthew Robert Blake, politician (died 1937)
- January 21 – James Charles Brady, politician (died 1962)
- January 27 – Frank S. Cahill, politician (died 1934)
- April 3 – Margaret Anglin, actress, director and producer (died 1958)
- April 21 – William Henry Wright, prospector and newspaper owner (died 1951)
- June 17 – Thomas Crerar, politician and Minister (died 1975)
=July to December=
- August 23 – William Melville Martin, politician and Premier of Saskatchewan (died 1970)
- September 6 – John Macleod, physician, physiologist and Nobel laureate (died 1935)
- October 6 – Ernest Lapointe, politician (died 1941)
- November 18 – Walter Seymour Allward, sculptor (died 1955)
- December 9 – Berton Churchill, actor (died 1940)
Deaths
- February 4 – Charles-Séraphin Rodier, mayor of Montreal (born 1797)
- February 5 – George Ryan, politician (born 1806)
- April 5 – Élisabeth Bruyère, nun (born 1818)
- June 1 – Malcolm Cameron, businessman and politician (born 1808)
- July 3 – Aldis Bernard, mayor of Montreal (born 1810)
- July 27 – Thomas-Louis Connolly, Archbishop of Halifax (born 1814)
- October 2 – Louis-Ovide Brunet, priest and botanist (born 1826)
- October 6 – John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar, Governor General (born 1807)
- December 13 – René-Édouard Caron, 2 Mayor of Quebec City and 2nd Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (born 1800)
=Full date unknown=
- Edward Feild, Church of England clergyman, inspector of schools, bishop of Newfoundland (born 1801)
- Wilson Ruffin Abbott, businessman and landowner (born 1801)
Historical documents
Bell's Ontario experiments lead to the first long-distance telephone conversationAlexander Graham Bell, [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/magbell:@field(DOCID+@lit(magbell38000101)) "First Transmission of Speech over a Telegraph Line in Brantford, August 1876"] The Pre-Commercial Period of the Telephone (1911), pgs. 14-16. Accessed 16 September 2018
Treaty 6 annexes land of Cree and other nations in exchange for reserves subject to sale or development, plus money and supplies[http://digital.scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/solr?query=ID%3A27840&rows=10&mode=view&pos=0&page=161 "The Treaty at Forts Carlton and Pitt, Number Six"] (September 9, 1876), Voices of the Plains Cree (1973, 1995), pgs. 124-9. Accessed 23 June 2021
Matron reports illness and death of girl at Wawanosh Indian residential school as local physician says her disorder is hysteria"Shingwauk Home; The following is the Matron's letter[....]" (February 1, 1876), Dominion Churchman (April 20, 1876), [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.8_06916_276/8 pg. 187] Accessed 29 November 2024
Mark Twain's anger at a Canadian firm publishing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer without permissionSamuel Langhorne Clemens, [http://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL01386.xml;style=letter "To Moncure D. Conway, 2 November 1876, Hartford, Conn."] Mark Twain Project. Accessed 16 September 2018
Emigrant's guide written especially for "people of small fortune"John J. Rowan, [https://books.google.com/books?id=7qUCAAAAYAAJ&dq=Canada&pg=PA24 The Emigrant and Sportsman in Canada; Some Experiences of an Old Country Settler] (1876). Accessed 23 April 2020
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