1872 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

Federal government

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Territorial governments

Lieutenant governors

Events
  • March 14 – Henry Joseph Clarke becomes premier[1] of Manitoba, replacing Marc-Amable Girard
  • March 25 – The beginning of the Toronto Printers' Strike for a nine-hour day.
  • March 31 – The first issue of the Toronto Mail, which would later be merged into The Globe and Mail, is published
  • April 15 – Ten thousand demonstrate at Queen's Park in support of the striking Toronto printers. The police, prompted by the Masters Printers' Association and its leader, George Brown of the Globe, arrest the entire 24-man strike committee
  • April 18 – John A. Macdonald introduces a bill to legalize trade unions.
  • April 25 – The first issue of the weekly Ontario Workman is published by the Toronto Trades Assembly. It is Canada's first labour newspaper.
  • May 15 – In the first nationwide labour protest, marchers across the land press for the nine-hour workday.
  • June 14 – The Trade Unions Act is passed in parliament, legalizing labour unions. The Criminal Law Amendment Act is also passed, making picketing illegal.
  • June 22 – A Grand Trunk Railway express passenger train from Toronto to Montreal derails near Shannonville, Ontario, killing 34.
  • June 25 – Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Earl of Dufferin becomes Governor General of Canada
  • July 20 – October 12: In the 1872 federal election Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservatives are re-elected.
  • October 31 – Oliver Mowat becomes Premier of Ontario replaces the retiring Edward Blake
  • November 21 – Victoria Memorial (Montreal) unveiled
  • December 23 – Amor De Cosmos becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing John McCreight

Full date unknown

Births
John McCrae in uniform, circa 1914

Deaths
John Sandfield Macdonald

Historical Documents

Privy Council committee recommends terms to encourage Mennonites to immigrate[2]

Government fails to establish some agreed-to First Nations reserves, while settlers steal the timber[3]

Sandford Fleming reports on difficulties surveying the route of the Canadian Pacific Railway[4]

Indigenous paddlers race each other on the CPR survey expedition[5]

gollark: LYRICLYNOBAD LYRICLY
gollark: No.
gollark: RULE FOUR.
gollark: Yes. It was developed by... ||me||!
gollark: Do I need to make it filter on "andre" instead?

References
  1. "Elections Manitoba". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-05-05.
  2. (Colonial Secretary) no. 51, 1872/03/07, German Menonites [sic] in Russia Wish to Emigrate to Canada, Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 24 November 2019 http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/politics-government/orders-council/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=23895
  3. Letter "Copy - No. 79," Return to an Address of the House of Commons, Dated 31st March, 1873, Asking for Copies of All Communications from Indians or Others in Manitoba, with the Government on the Subject of the Dissatisfaction Prevailing among the Chiefs, Headmen, and Indians Treated With in Manitoba, and Adjacent Territory in the Year 1871 ([Ottawa: Department of the Secretary of State], 1873), pgs. 3-4. Accessed 15 September 2018 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/619/4.html
  4. Sandford Fleming, Progress Report on the Canadian Pacific Railway Exploratory Survey (1872), pgs. 15-16. Accessed 15 September 2018 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/641/14.html
  5. George Monro Grant, Ocean to Ocean: Sandford Fleming's Expedition through Canada in 1872 (Toronto: John Campbell & Son, 1873), pgs. 40-1. Accessed 15 September 2018 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/642/78.html
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.