1875 in Canada

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Events from the year 1875 in Canada.

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January 14 - The Halifax Herald is 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 lieutenant-governor 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
June 30 - The Land Purchase Act comes into effect in Prince Edward Island in order to address the "land question", one of the issues that had prompted the colony to join Confederation
July 7 - 1875 Quebec election: Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority
July 20 - 1875 British Columbia election
September 2 - The Guibord Affair, violence resulting from the 1874 Guibord case, 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 practise medicine in Canada, although Emily Stowe has been doing so without a licence 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.

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir

June 15 - Herman Smith-Johannsen, ski pioneer and supercentenarian (d.1987)
August 2 - Albert Hickman, politician and 17th Prime Minister of Newfoundland (d.1943)
August 21 - Winnifred Eaton, author (d.1954)
August 22 - François Blais, politician (d.1949)
August 26 - John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, novelist, politician and 15th Governor General of Canada (d.1940)
September 6 - Edith Berkeley, biologist
October 5 - Anne-Marie Huguenin, journalist
November 19 - John Knox Blair, politician, physician and teacher (d.1950)
December 5 - Arthur Currie, World War I general (d.1933)

March 1 - Henry Kellett, officer in the Royal Navy, oceanographer, Arctic explorer (b.1806)
June 22 - William Edmond Logan, geologist (b.1798)
July 15 - Charles La Rocque, priest and third Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe (b.1809)
July 22 - Amable Éno, dit Deschamps, political figure (b.1785)
August 21 - George Coles, Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1810)
December 14 - Marie-Anne Gaboury, female explorer (b.1780)

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