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1871 in Canada

1871 in Canada

Canada-related events during the year of 1871

Events from the year 1871 in Canada.

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Incumbents

Crown

Federal government

Provincial governments

Canada provinces 1871–1873

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Territorial governments

Lieutenant governors

Elections

Events

January to June

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

Births

George Stewart Henry

Deaths

Modeste Demers

Historical documents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

  1. [1]
    "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  2. [2]
    "Electoral History of British Columbia 1871–1986" (PDF). Elections British Columbia.
  3. [3]
    "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
  4. [4]
    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
  5. [5]
    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))
  6. [6]
    "The Chippewa Treaty; Second Day's Proceedings" The Manitoban, Vol. I, No. 43 (August 5, 1871), pg. 2 (column 4). Accessed 16 August 2021
  7. [7]
    "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
  8. [8]
    "Fourth Day's Proceedings" The Manitoban, Vol. I, No. 44 (August 12, 1871), pg. 2 (columns 4-5). Accessed 16 August 2021
  9. [9]
    Further arguments on Treaty 1 The Manitoban, Vol. I, No. 44 (August 12, 1871), pg. 3 (columns 1-3). Accessed 16 August 2021
  10. [10]
    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
  11. [11]
    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
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