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Events from the year 1871 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Joseph Trutch (from July 5)
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Adams George Archibald
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Lemuel Allan Wilmot
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Charles Hastings Doyle
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Pearce Howland
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia – John Foster McCreight (from November 14)
- Premier of Manitoba – Alfred Boyd (until December 14) then Marc-Amable Girard
- Premier of New Brunswick – George Edwin King (until February 21) then George Luther Hathaway
- Premier of Nova Scotia – William Annand
- Premier of Ontario – John Sandfield Macdonald (until December 20) then Edward Blake
- Premier of Quebec – Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
Elections
- March 21 – The 1871 Ontario election: Edward Blake's Liberals win a majority, defeating J. S. Macdonald's Liberal-Conservatives
- May 16 – The 1871 Nova Scotia election: William Annand's Liberals win a second consecutive majority
- Oct 16 – Dec 15 – The 1871 British Columbia election[2]
Events
January to June
- March 15 – Beginning of the first session of the 1st Manitoba Legislature
- 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.
July to December
- July 15 – 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 the first Franco-Manitoban of premier of Manitoba, replacing Alfred Boyd
- December 20 – Edward Blake becomes premier of Ontario, replacing J. S. Macdonald.
Full date unknown
- Meteorological Service of Canada 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.
- The 1871 Quebec election : Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau's Conservatives win a second consecutive majority
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 8 – Samuel McLaughlin, businessman and philanthropist (d.1972)
- 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)
Deaths
- January 29 – Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, lawyer, writer, fifth and last seigneur of Saint-Jean-Port-Joli (L'Islet County) (b.1786)
- January 31 – John Ross, lawyer, politician, and businessman. (b. 1818)
- February 20 – Paul Kane, artist (b.1810)
- March 11 – John Heckman, political figure (b.1785)
- July 28 – Modeste Demers, missionary (b.1809)
- September 23 – Louis-Joseph Papineau, lawyer, politician and reformist (b.1786)
- November 18 – Enos Collins, seaman, merchant, financier, and legislator (b.1774)
Historical documents
Editorial says Confederation is British Columbia's chance to remake itself[3]
Canada should refuse to permanently share its inshore fishery with U.S.A.[4]
Manitoba Lieutenant Governor Archibald agrees to release four Indigenous prisoners before negotiating Treaty 1[5]
Archibald urges Indigenous people to "adopt the habits of the whites" (farming) for more comfort and safety from famine and sickness[6]
Commissioner Simpson says in Manitoba's "immense cultivable acres," large reserves are not allowed, and treaty terms are "a present"[7]
Treaty terms with large reserves are demanded by Indigenous leaders, with one calling himself "the lawful owner" of his people's land[8]
Indigenous leaders continue to make "extravagant demands" and Commissioner Simpson says take it or leave it, settlers are coming[9]
Fenian raid on Manitoba stopped at the border[10]
Manitoba Lieutenant Governor thanks residents for rising to resist the Fenian invasion[11]
References
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- ↑ "The Great Duty of the Hour" The Daily British Colonist and Victoria Chronicle, Vol. 25, No. 117 (April 28, 1871), pg. 2. Accessed 11 September 2018
- ↑ Joseph Pope, Memoirs of the Right Honourable Sir John Alexander Macdonald, G.C.B., First Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada (1894), pgs. 90-1 Accessed 11 September 2018
- ↑ Report of the Indian Branch of the Department of the Secretary of State for the Provinces, 1871, pgs. 14-15 Accessed 30 January 2020 (See "An Obstacle" for details of incarceration and release (pg. 2, columns 3-4))
- ↑ "The Chippewa Treaty; Second Day's Proceedings" The Manitoban, Vol. I, No. 43 (August 5, 1871), pg. 2 (column 4). Accessed 16 August 2021
- ↑ "The Chippewa Treaty; Second Day's Proceedings" The Manitoban, Vol. I, No. 43 (August 5, 1871), pg. 2 (columns 4-5). Accessed 16 August 2021
- ↑ "Fourth Day's Proceedings" The Manitoban, Vol. I, No. 44 (August 12, 1871), pg. 2 (columns 4-5). Accessed 16 August 2021
- ↑ Further arguments on Treaty 1 The Manitoban, Vol. I, No. 44 (August 12, 1871), pg. 3 (columns 1-3). Accessed 16 August 2021
- ↑ Adams George Archibald, Return to an Address of the House of Commons...for Copies of All Correspondence with Lieut.-Governor A.G. Archibald, of Manitoba...Regarding the Fenian Invasion of Manitoba, pgs. 4–5 Accessed 11 September 2018
- ↑ House of Commons, Report of the Select Committee on the Causes of the Difficulties in the North-West Territory in 1869–70 (1874), pgs. 147-9 Accessed 11 September 2018
