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Canada-related events during the year of 1871
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Events from the year 1871 in Canada .
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
January 30 –
Wilfred Lucas , actor, film director and screenwriter (d.
1940 )
May 14 –
Walter Stanley Monroe , businessman, politician and Prime Minister of
Newfoundland (d.
1952 )
July 16 –
George Stewart Henry , politician and 10th
Premier of Ontario (d.
1958 )
July 25 –
Richard Ernest William Turner , soldier and recipient of the
Victoria Cross (d.
1961 )
August 4 –
Robert Hamilton Butts , politician (d.
1943 )
September 8 –
Samuel McLaughlin , businessman and philanthropist (d.
1972 )
September 9 –
Hugh Robson , politician and judge
October 31 –
Alexander Stirling MacMillan , businessman, politician and Premier of
Nova Scotia (d.
1955 )
December 2 –
Stanislas Blanchard , politician (d.
1949 )
December 13 –
Emily Carr , artist and writer (d.
1945 )
Deaths
Modeste Demers
January 29 –
Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé , lawyer, writer, fifth and last seigneur of Saint-Jean-Port-Joli (L'Islet County) (b.
1786 )
January 31 –
John Ross , lawyer, politician, and businessman. (b.
1818 )
February 20 –
Paul Kane , artist (b.
1810 )
March 11 –
John Heckman , political figure (b.
1785 )
July 28 –
Modeste Demers , missionary (b.
1809 )
September 23 –
Louis-Joseph Papineau , lawyer, politician and reformist (b.
1786 )
November 18 –
Enos Collins , seaman, merchant, financier, and legislator (b.
1774 )
Historical documents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
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"Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia" . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 5 December 2022 .
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"Electoral History of British Columbia 1871–1986" (PDF) . Elections British Columbia .
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"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
^ 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
^ 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))
^
"The Chippewa Treaty; Second Day's Proceedings" The Manitoban, Vol. I, No. 43 (August 5, 1871), pg. 2 (column 4). Accessed 16 August 2021
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"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
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"Fourth Day's Proceedings" The Manitoban, Vol. I, No. 44 (August 12, 1871), pg. 2 (columns 4-5). Accessed 16 August 2021
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Further arguments on Treaty 1 The Manitoban, Vol. I, No. 44 (August 12, 1871), pg. 3 (columns 1-3). Accessed 16 August 2021
^ 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
^ 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
1871 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories