1877 in Canada
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See also: 1876 in Canada, other events of 1877, 1878 in Canada.
Events from the year 1877 in Canada.
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[edit] Events
- February 28 - University of Manitoba founded.
- September 22 - Treaty 7 signed.
[edit] Full date unknown
- Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier appointed Minister of Agriculture and called to the Senate of Canada
- Manzo Nagano was the first official Japanese immigrant into Canada
- Nez Perce War. Blackfoot tribes cedes land to the Dominion of Canada.
- Refugee Lakota enter Canada near the end of the Great Sioux War
- Sir Wilfrid Laurier is appointed Canadian Minister of Inland Revenue
- The provincial legislature creates the University of Manitoba, the oldest University in western Canada.
[edit] Births
- January 5 - Edgar Nelson Rhodes, politician, Minister and Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1942)
- May 23 - Fred Wellington Bowen, politician (d.1949)
- July 23 - Aimé Boucher, politician and notary (d.1946)
- August 5 - Tom Thomson, artist (d.1917)
- August 29 - George Arthur Brethen, politician (d.1968)
- November 19 - John Alexander Macdonald Armstrong, politician (d.1926)
- December 15 - John Thomas Haig, politician (d.1962)
- December 18 - James Allison Glen, politician, Minister and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (d.1950)
- December 26 - Aldéric-Joseph Benoit, politician
[edit] Deaths
- January 2 - Jonathan McCully, politician (b.1809)
- May 4 - Charles Wilson, politician (b.1808)
- July 12 - Amand Landry, farmer and politician (b.1805)
- November 3 - William Henry Draper, politician, lawyer, and judge (b. 1801)
- November 7 - Joseph-Octave Beaubien, physician and politician (b.1825)
- November 8 - John Cook, politician ontarian (b.1791)
