1880 in Canada
See also: \n
1879 in Canada, \n
other events of 1880, \n
1881 in Canada and the \n
Timeline of Canadian history.
Events
\n*February 4 - Five members of the Donnelly family are killed near Lucan, Ontario\n* March 6, The Royal Academy for the Arts is founded\n* March 25, George Brown fatally shot by a disgruntled employee\n* May 4, Edward Blake becomes the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada\n* June 24, "O Canada" first performed\n* October 9, The United Kingdom gives Canada control of the Arctic islands by Great Britain\n* Emily Stowe becomes the first woman doctor to practise medicine in Canada\n* Sanford Fleming becomes chancellor of Queen's University \n* Bell Canada founded\n* Canadian Pacific Railroad (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 railroad and 20 year control over rate-setting.
Arts
\n:New Books\n*Charles G.D. Roberts, Orion and Other Poems
Births
\n*January 17 - Mack Sennett, comedian\n*August 29 - Marie-Louise Meilleur, briefly world longest-lived person
Deaths
\n*May 9, George Brown, Father of Confederation
