1871 in Canada

See also: \n1870 in Canada, \nother events of 1871, \n1872 in Canada and the \nlist of 'years in Canada'.

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* March 10 - Government of Manitoba meets for the first time\n* March 21 - Ontario election: Edward Blake's Liberals win a majority, defeating J. S. Macdonald's Liberal-Conservatives\n* April 2 - The first Canadian census finds the population to be 3,689,257\n* May 8 - The Treaty of Washington reaches agreements on fishing rights and Great Lakes trade between Canada and the United States\n* May 17 - New Brunswick abandons separate schools\n* July - Phoebe Campbell murders her husband with an axe. She is hanged the next year.\n* July 20 - British Columbia joins the Confederation.\n* July 25 - Treaty Number 1 the first of a number of treaties with western Canada's First Nations is signed\n* August 17 - Treaty Number 2 is signed\n* November 11 - The last of the British army leaves Canada\n* November 13 - John McCreight becomes the first premier of British Columbia\n* December 14 - Marc-Amable Girard becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Alfred Boyd\n* December 20 - Edward Blake becomes premier of Ontario, replacing J. S. Macdonald\n* National Meteorological Service is formed\n* Parliament legalizes the use of the metric system\n* Goldwin Smith immigrates to Canada

Births

\n* December 13 - Emily Carr, artist and writer\n* Richard Turner - war hero

Deaths

\n* September 23 - Louis-Joseph Papineau, rebel