1875 in Canada - Definition

See also: 1874 in Canada, other events of 1875, 1876 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.

Events

• January 14 - The Halifax Herald was 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 government 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 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 practice medicine in Canada, although Emily Stowe has been doing so without a license 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.

Births

• 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 26 - John Buchan, Governor General
• September 6 - Edith Berkeley, biologist
• October 5 - Anne-Marie Huguenin, journalist
• December 5 - Arthur Currie, WWI army general

Deaths

• June 22 - William Edmond Logan, geologist