1876 in Canada

Events from the year 1876 in Canada.

Events

• February 1 - Andrew Elliott becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing George Walkem
• July 1 - The Intercolonial Railway connecting central Canada to the Maritimes is completed
• August - Sir Louis Henry Davies becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Lemuel Cambridge Owen
• August 10 - The world's first long-distance phone call connects the Bell residence with a shoe and boot store in nearby Paris, Ontario.
• October 10 - 1876 Prince Edward Island election: Lemuel Cambridge Owen's Conservatives win a second consecutive majority

Full date unknown

• The Indian Act defines the special status and land regulations of Aboriginal peoples in Canada who live on reserves; they have no vote in Canadian elections and are exempt from taxes
• The District of Keewatin (incorporating the disputed area between Ontario and Manitoba) is separated from the North-West Territories.
• The Toronto Women's Literary Club is founded as a front for the suffrage movement.

Births

January to June

• January 8 - Matthew Robert Blake, politician (d.1937)
• January 21 - James Charles Brady, politician (d.1962)
• January 27 - Frank S. Cahill, politician (d.1934)
• April 3 - Margaret Anglin, actress, director and producer (d.1958)
• April 21 - William Henry Wright, prospector and newspaper owner (d.1951)
• June 17 - Thomas Crerar, politician and Minister (d.1975)

July to December

• August 23 - William Melville Martin, politician and Premier of Saskatchewan (d.1970)
• September 6 - John James Richard Macleod, physician, physiologist and Nobel laureate (d.1935)
• October 6 - Ernest Lapointe, politician (d.1941)
• November 18 - Walter Seymour Allward, sculptor (d.1955)
• December 9 - Berton Churchill, actor (d.1940)

Deaths

• February 4 - Charles-Séraphin Rodier, mayor of Montreal (b.1797)
• February 5 - George Ryan, politician (b.1806)
• April 5 - Élisabeth Bruyère, nun (b.1818)
• June 1 - Malcolm Cameron, businessman and politician (b.1808)
• July 3 - Aldis Bernard, mayor of Montreal (b.1810)
• July 27 - Thomas-Louis Connolly, Archbishop of Halifax (b.1814)
• October 2 - Louis-Ovide Brunet, priest and botanist (b.1826)
• October 6 - John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar, Governor General (b.1807)
• December 13 - René-Édouard Caron, 2nd Mayor of Quebec City and 2nd Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (b.1800)

Full date unknown

• Edward Feild, Church of England clergyman, inspector of schools, bishop of Newfoundland (b.1801)
• Wilson Ruffin Abbott, businessman and landowner (b.1801)