1882 in Canada
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Events from the year 1882 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
- Governor General – John Campbell
- Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald
- Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick)
- Parliament – 4th (until 18 May)
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clement Francis Cornwall
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Joseph Édouard Cauchon (until September 29) then James Cox Aikins
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Robert Duncan Wilmot
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Adams George Archibald
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Beverley Robinson
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Thomas Heath Haviland
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Théodore Robitaille
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia – George Anthony Walkem (until June 13) then Robert Beaven
- Premier of Manitoba – John Norquay
- Premier of New Brunswick – John James Fraser (until May 25) then Daniel Lionel Hanington
- Premier of Nova Scotia – Simon Hugh Holmes (until May 23) then John Sparrow David Thompson (May 25 to July 18) then William Thomas Pipes (from August 3)
- Premier of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – William Wilfred Sullivan
- Premier of Quebec – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau (until July 31) then Joseph-Alfred Mousseau
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – Joseph Édouard Cauchon (until September 29) then James Cox Aikins
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Edgar Dewdney
Events
- May 8 – Prince Edward Island election: William Wilfred Sullivan's Conservatives win a fourth consecutive majority
- May 17 – Provisional districts of the North-West Territories are established between Manitoba and British Columbia: the districts of Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Athabaska
- May 25 – John Sparrow David Thompson becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Simon H. Holmes.
- June – New Brunswick election
- June 20
- Federal election: Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservatives win a second consecutive majority.
- Nova Scotia election
- June 13 – Robert Beaven becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing George Walkem.
- July 20 – British Columbia election
- July 31 – Joseph-Alfred Mousseau becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau.
- August 3 – William T. Pipes becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing John Sparrow David Thompson.
- December 30 – The Royal Society of Canada is founded.
Full date unknown
- Daniel Hanington becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing James Fraser.
- John Ware, a Texas cowboy, moves to Alberta. He introduces longhorn cattle into Canada and pioneers the development of rodeo.
- Newfoundland election
- The North-West Mounted Police (which later became the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) established a post in 1882 in Regina, Saskatchewan. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (R.C.M.P.) have since established their main training academy there, which is called "Depot", or Depot Division.
- The North Bay Police Service is founded.
Sport
- October 21 – The Canadian Rugby Football Union is founded. {Reference is needed. The link cited as well as the Rugby Canada Wiki note different years (1880 and 1884 respectively)}
Births
Louis St. Laurent
January to June
- January 8 – David Milne, painter, printmaker and writer (d.1953)
- February 1 – Louis St. Laurent, politician and 12th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1973)
- February 2 – Geoffrey O'Hara, composer, singer and music professor (d.1967)
- February 4 – E. J. Pratt, poet (d.1964)
- February 11 – John Queen, politician (d.1946)
- March 6 – Barbara Hanley, first woman to be elected a mayor in Canada (d.1959)
- May 26 – Charles Edward Bothwell, politician and barrister (d.1967)
- June 9 – Robert Kerr, sprinter and Olympic gold medallist (d.1963)
July to December
- July 19 – Sarah Ramsland, politician and first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan (d.1964)
- October 3 – A. Y. Jackson, painter, one of the Group of Seven (d.1974)
- December 18 – Albert James Bradshaw, politician (d.1956)
- December 25 – John Stewart McDiarmid, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (d.1965)
Deaths
- February 1 – Maurice Laframboise, lawyer, judge and politician (b.1821)
- March 25 – Charles-René-Léonidas d'Irumberry de Salaberry, militia officer (b.1820)
- August 7 – Antoine Gérin-Lajoie, poet and novelist (b.1824)
- September 15 – Jacques Philippe Lantier, businessman, author and politician (b.1814)
- December 9 – Hugh Allan, businessman (b.1810)
Historical Documents
Prime Minister Macdonald explains near-starvation policy to control Indigenous peoples [1]
Prime Minister Macdonald welcomes Chinese as CPR labourers, but not as settlers [2]
MP tells House of Commons that land policy in N.W.T. should favour settler over speculator [3]
Alberta ranchers endure hunger while struggling through multi-day snowstorm [4]
References
- House of Commons Debates, 4th Parliament, 4th Session; Vol. 1, pg. 15. Accessed 8 October 2019 http://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC0404_04/23?r=0&s=1
- Canada; Parliament; House of Commons, Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada (1882), pg. 1477. Accessed 5 October 2019 http://www.collectionscanada.ca/immigrants/021017-2230.01-e.html%5B%5D
- Speech Delivered by John Charlton, M.P., on the Government Land Policy in the North-West; From Official Debates; House of Commons, Session 1882 (1882). Accessed 5 October 2019 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1053/3.html
- Alexander Staveley Hill, From Home to Home; Autumn Wanderings in the Northwest[...] (1885), pgs. 195-212. Accessed 5 October 2019 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1243/242.html
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