1875 in Canada

none April 2026 June 2019 1875 Events from the year 1875 in Canada. Incumbents Crown Monarch – VictoriaQueen Victoria The Canadian Encyclopedia https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/victoria# www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca 5 December 2022 Federal government Governor General – Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood Prime Minister – Alexander Mackenzie Chief Justice – William Buell Richards (Ontario) (from 30 September 1875) Parliament – 3rd Provincial governments Lieutenant governors Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Joseph Trutch Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Alexander Morris Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Adams George Archibald Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Willoughby Crawford (until May 13) then Donald Alexander Macdonald (from May 18) Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Robert Hodgson Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – René-Édouard Caron Premiers Premier of British Columbia – George Anthony Walkem Premier of Manitoba – Robert Atkinson Davis Premier of New Brunswick – George Edwin King Premier of Nova Scotia – William Annand (until May 8) then Philip Carteret Hill (from May 11) Premier of Ontario – Oliver Mowat Premier of Prince Edward Island – Lemuel Cambridge Owen Premier of Quebec – Charles Boucher de Boucherville Territorial governments Lieutenant governors Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories – Alexander Morris Events January 14 – The Halifax Herald is first published. January 18 – 1875 Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a second consecutive majority. March 1 – The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto) is founded. April 5 – The Supreme Court of Canada is created. April 8 – The Northwest Territories is given a lieutenant-governor separate from that of Manitoba. May 11 – Philip Carteret Hill becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing William Annand. June 1 – Construction begins on the Canadian Pacific Railway. June 30 – The Land Purchase Act comes into effect in Prince Edward Island in order to address the "land question", one of the issues that had prompted the colony to join Confederation. July 7 – 1875 Quebec election: Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority. July 20 – 1875 British Columbia election. September 2 – The Guibord Affair, violence resulting from the 1874 Guibord case, breaks out. Full date unknown Convent Scandal: During the winter in Montreal, typhoid fever strikes at a convent school. The corpses of the victims are filched by body-snatchers before relatives arrive from America, causing much furor.Gordon Richard The Alarming History of Medicine St. Martin's Press New York 1994 0-312-10411-1 12 registration https://archive.org/details/alarminghistoryo00gord/page/12 Eventually the Anatomy Act of Quebec is changed over it.History of Medicine Days https://web.archive.org/web/20040615183009/http://www.hom.ucalgary.ca/Dayspapers2000.pdf 2004-06-15, p. 132. Louis Riel is granted amnesty with the condition that he be banished for five years. Jennifer Trout becomes the first woman licensed to practise medicine in Canada, although Emily Stowe has been doing so without a licence in Toronto since 1867. Grace Lockhart receives from Mount Allison University the first Bachelor of Arts degree awarded to a woman. Births February 26 – Edith Jane Miller, concert contralto singer (d. 1936) March 29 – Harry James Barber, politician (d.1959) June 12 – Sam De Grasse, actor (d.1953) thumb|right|150px|John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir June 15 – Herman Smith-Johannsen, ski pioneer and supercentenarian (d.1987) August 2 – Albert Hickman, politician and 17th Prime Minister of Newfoundland (d.1943) August 21 – Winnifred Eaton, author (d.1954) August 22 – François Blais, politician (d.1949) August 26 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, novelist, politician and 15th Governor General of Canada (d.1940) September 6 – Edith Berkeley, biologist (d.1963) October 5 – Anne-Marie Huguenin, journalist (d.1943) November 19 – John Knox Blair, politician, physician and teacher (d.1950) December 5 – Arthur Currie, World War I general (d.1933) Deaths March 1 – Henry Kellett, officer in the Royal Navy, oceanographer, Arctic explorer (b.1806) June 22 – William Edmond Logan, geologist (b.1798) July 15 – Charles La Rocque, priest and third Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe (b.1809) July 22 – Amable Éno, dit Deschamps, political figure (b.1785) August 21 – George Coles, Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1810) December 14 – Marie-Anne Gaboury, female explorer (b.1780) Historical documents Now in Opposition, J.A. Macdonald and Charles Tupper criticize the Liberal government"Sir John A. Macdonald at Montreal" and "Speech of Hon. C. Tupper, C.B. at Halifax" Liberal Conservative Hand-Book; Grits in Office; Profession and Practice Contrasted (Published under the Auspices of the Conservative Associations of the Dominion, 1876), pgs. 3-25 and 27-48, respectively. Accessed 16 September 2018 Rev. George Bryce details Presbyterian Church's "heathen" mission work among 80,000 Indigenous people in North-West TerritoriesGeorge Bryce, The Presbyterian Church in Canada, and the Canadian North-West (1875). Accessed 6 September 2021 Painting: Huron-Wendat Chief Telari-o-lin's self-portraitZacharie Vincent, "Zacharie Vincent Telari-o-lin Indian Huron Chief His Portrait Painted By Himself" (ca. 1875-80), Chateau Ramezay – Historic Site and Museum of Montreal. Accessed 18 May 2022 References External links 1875 in Category:Years of the 19th century in Canada Canada, 1875 In Category:1875 in North America