1873 in Canada

none April 2026 December 2009 1873 Events from the year 1873 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 – John A. Macdonald (until November 5) then Alexander Mackenzie (from November 7) Parliament – 2nd (from 5 March) Provincial governments Lieutenant governors Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Joseph Trutch Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Alexander Morris Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Lemuel Allan Wilmot (until November 15) then Samuel Leonard Tilley Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Charles Hastings Doyle (until May 1) then Joseph Howe (May 1 to July 4) then Adams George Archibald Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Pearce Howland (until November 11) then John Willoughby Crawford Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – William Cleaver Francis Robinson Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau (until February 11) then René-Édouard Caron Premiers Premier of British Columbia – Amor De Cosmos Premier of Manitoba – Henry Joseph Clarke Premier of New Brunswick – George Edwin King Premier of Nova Scotia – William Annand Premier of Ontario – Oliver Mowat Premier of Prince Edward Island – James Colledge Pope (until September 1) then Lemuel Cambridge Owen Premier of Quebec – Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (until February 26) then Gédéon Ouimet Territorial governments Lieutenant governors Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories – Alexander Morris Events January to June 1873 February 26 – Gédéon Ouimet becomes Premier of Quebec, replacing Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau. March 12 - Public electric lighting receives its first Canadian demonstrationin Manitoba at the Davis House hotel on Main Street, Winnipeg April 1 1873 Prince Edward Island general election. James Pope becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island for the second time, replacing Robert Haythorne. The SS Atlantic is wrecked off Peggys Cove. April 2 – The Pacific Scandal breaks out. May 13 – Sixty are killed in a coal mine explosion in Nova Scotia. May 23 – North-West Mounted Police are founded to police the Northwest Territories, which then included the region today of Alberta and Saskatchewan. June 1 – The Cypress Hills Massacre occurs. July to December July 1 – Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation. August 25 – A cyclone hits Cape Breton Island, killing 500 and causing much damage. September 1 – L. C. Owen becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing James Pope. September 23 – The Canadian Labour Union is founded. November – 1873 Newfoundland general election. November 5 – Pacific Scandal: the House of Commons of Canada passes a vote of no confidence in Sir John A. Macdonald's government. November 7 – Pacific Scandal: Sir John A. resigns as Prime Minister of Canada, and Alexander Mackenzie is appointed in his place. November 8 – Winnipeg incorporated as a city. Sport October 4 – The Argonauts Football Club (Toronto Argonauts) are established Smallpox In the opening speech to the 1872-1873 Epidemiological Society conference, Inspector-General Robert Lawson drew attention to the recent prevalence of haemorrhagic forms of smallpox in both the United States and Canada, among other countries. During the smallpox pandemic of 1870-1874, the disease had been carried to America by emigrants, where it had already infected thousands, and killed hundreds in eastern cities such as Boston and New York. 10.1177/003591573302700245 0035-9157 27 2 177–192 Rolleston J. D. The Smallpox Pandemic of 1870–1874: President's Address Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 1 December 1933 free 2204618 Births January to June thumb|right|100px|J. E. H. MacDonald January 10 – George Orton, middle-distance runner and Olympic gold medallist, first Canadian to win an Olympic medal (d.1958) January 19 – Thomas Dufferin Pattullo, politician and 22nd Premier of British Columbia (d.1956) February 4 – Étienne Desmarteau, athlete and Olympic gold medallist (d.1905) April 9 – Walter Edward Foster, businessman, politician and 16th Premier of New Brunswick (d.1947) April 10 – George Black, politician (d.1965) May 12 – J. E. H. MacDonald, artist of the Group of Seven (d.1932) May 17 – Albert Edward Matthews, 16th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1949) July to December August 27 – Maud Allan, actor, dancer and choreographer (d.1956) September 20 – Sidney Olcott, film producer, director, actor and screenwriter (d.1949) October 20 (or 29) – Nellie McClung, feminist, politician and social activist (d.1951)Elizabeth Gillan Muir Marilyn Färdig Whiteley Changing Roles of Women Within the Christian Church in Canada https://books.google.com/books?id=S1Ww0sV1SrYC&pg=PA340 1995 University of Toronto Press 978-0-8020-7623-6 340– November 21 – Aimé Bénard, politician (d.1938) December 8 – John Duncan MacLean, teacher, physician, politician and Premier of British Columbia (d.1948) December 9 – George Blewett, academic and philosopher (d.1912) Full date unknown Margaret C. MacDonald, nurse (d.1948) Deaths thumb|right|100px|James William Johnston May 15 – William James Anderson, physician, amateur geologist and historian (b.1812) May 20 – George-Étienne Cartier, politician and statesman (b.1814) May 28 – Thomas Brown Anderson, merchant, banker and politician (b.1796) June 1 – Joseph Howe, Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1804) June 28 – Charles Connell, politician (b.1810) November 21 – James William Johnston, lawyer, politician, and judge (b.1792) December 9 – William Steeves, politician (b.1814) References 2 External links Category:Canada:Acts of Parliament, 1873 Acts of Parliament, 1873 1873 in Category:Years of the 19th century in Canada Canada Category:1873 in North America