1875 in Canada
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See also: 1874 in Canada, other events of 1875, 1876 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.
[edit] Events
- January 14: The Halifax Herald is first published
- January 18: 1875 Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a second consecutive majority
- 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
- September 2: The Guibord Affair, violence resulting from the 1874 Guibord case, breaks out
- 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.
- Hospital for Sick Children founded.
[edit] Births
- March 29: Harry James Barber, politician
- June 12: Sam De Grasse, actor
- June 16: Herman Johannsen, skier
- August 2: Albert Hickman, Prime Minister of Newfoundland
- August 21: Winnifred Eaton, author
- August 22: François Blais, politician
- August 26: John Buchan, Governor General
- September 6: Edith Berkeley, biologist
- October 5: Anne-Marie Huguenin, journalist
- November 19: John Knox Blair, politician
- December 5: Arthur Currie, First World War army general
[edit] Deaths
- June 22: William Edmond Logan, geologist
