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Canada-related events during the year of 1876
Events from the year 1876 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
Events
Full date unknown
Sport
Births
January to June
July to December
Deaths
- February 4 –
Charles-Séraphin Rodier, mayor of
Montreal (born
1797)
- February 5 –
George Ryan, politician (born
1806)
- April 5 –
Élisabeth Bruyère, nun (born
1818)
- June 1 –
Malcolm Cameron, businessman and politician (born
1808)
- July 3 –
Aldis Bernard, mayor of
Montreal (born
1810)
- July 27 –
Thomas-Louis Connolly,
Archbishop of Halifax (born
1814)
- October 2 –
Louis-Ovide Brunet, priest and botanist (born
1826)
- October 6 –
John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar, Governor General (born
1807)
- December 13 –
René-Édouard Caron, 2 Mayor of Quebec City and 2nd
Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (born
1800)
Full date unknown
Historical documents
Bell's
Ontario experiments lead to the first long-distance telephone conversation
[2]
Treaty 6 annexes land of Cree and other nations in exchange for reserves subject to sale or development, plus money and supplies
[3]
Mark Twain's anger at a Canadian firm publishing
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer without permission
[4]
Emigrant's guide written especially for "people of small fortune"
[5]
References
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"Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
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^ Alexander Graham Bell,
"First Transmission of Speech over a Telegraph Line in Brantford, August 1876" The Pre-Commercial Period of the Telephone (1911), pgs. 14-16. Accessed 16 September 2018
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"The Treaty at Forts Carlton and Pitt, Number Six" (September 9, 1876), Voices of the Plains Cree (1973, 1995), pgs. 124-9. Accessed 23 June 2021
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^ Samuel Langhorne Clemens,
"To Moncure D. Conway, 2 November 1876, Hartford, Conn." Mark Twain Project. Accessed 16 September 2018
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^ John J. Rowan,
The Emigrant and Sportsman in Canada; Some Experiences of an Old Country Settler (1876). Accessed 23 April 2020
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