Jump to content

1871 in Canada

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1871
in
Canada

Decades:
See also:

Events from the year 1871 in Canada.

Incumbents

[edit]

Crown

[edit]

Federal government

[edit]

Provincial governments

[edit]
Canada provinces 1871–1873

Lieutenant governors

[edit]

Premiers

[edit]

Territorial governments

[edit]

Lieutenant governors

[edit]

Elections

[edit]

Events

[edit]

January to June

[edit]

July to December

[edit]
  • July 15 – Phoebe Campbell murders her husband with an axe. She is hanged the next year.
  • July 20 – British Columbia joins Confederation.
  • July 25 – Treaty 1, the first of a number of treaties with western Canada's First Nations, is signed
  • August 17 – Treaty 2 is signed
  • November 11 – The last of the British Army leaves Canada
  • November 13 – John McCreight becomes the first premier of British Columbia
  • December 14 – Marc-Amable Girard becomes the first Franco-Manitoban of premier of Manitoba, replacing Alfred Boyd
  • December 20 – Edward Blake becomes premier of Ontario, replacing J. S. Macdonald.

Full date unknown

[edit]

Births

[edit]
George Stewart Henry

Deaths

[edit]
Modeste Demers

Historical documents

[edit]

Editorial says Confederation is British Columbia's chance to remake itself[3]

Canada should refuse to permanently share its inshore fishery with U.S.A.[4]

Manitoba Lieutenant Governor Archibald agrees to release four Indigenous prisoners before negotiating Treaty 1[5]

Archibald urges Indigenous people to "adopt the habits of the whites" (farming) for more comfort and safety from famine and sickness[6]

Commissioner Simpson says in Manitoba's "immense cultivable acres," large reserves are not allowed, and treaty terms are "a present"[7]

Treaty terms with large reserves are demanded by Indigenous leaders, with one calling himself "the lawful owner" of his people's land[8]

Indigenous leaders continue to make "extravagant demands" and Commissioner Simpson says take it or leave it, settlers are coming[9]

Fenian raid on Manitoba stopped at the border[10]

Manitoba Lieutenant Governor thanks residents for rising to resist the Fenian invasion[11]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Electoral History of British Columbia 1871–1986" (PDF). Elections British Columbia.
  3. ^ "The Great Duty of the Hour" The Daily British Colonist and Victoria Chronicle, Vol. 25, No. 117 (April 28, 1871), pg. 2. Accessed 11 September 2018
  4. ^ Joseph Pope, Memoirs of the Right Honourable Sir John Alexander Macdonald, G.C.B., First Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada (1894), pgs. 90-1 Accessed 11 September 2018
  5. ^ Report of the Indian Branch of the Department of the Secretary of State for the Provinces, 1871, pgs. 14-15 Accessed 30 January 2020 (See "An Obstacle" for details of incarceration and release (pg. 2, columns 3-4))
  6. ^ "The Chippewa Treaty; Second Day's Proceedings" The Manitoban, Vol. I, No. 43 (August 5, 1871), pg. 2 (column 4). Accessed 16 August 2021
  7. ^ "The Chippewa Treaty; Second Day's Proceedings" The Manitoban, Vol. I, No. 43 (August 5, 1871), pg. 2 (columns 4-5). Accessed 16 August 2021
  8. ^ "Fourth Day's Proceedings" The Manitoban, Vol. I, No. 44 (August 12, 1871), pg. 2 (columns 4-5). Accessed 16 August 2021
  9. ^ Further arguments on Treaty 1 The Manitoban, Vol. I, No. 44 (August 12, 1871), pg. 3 (columns 1-3). Accessed 16 August 2021
  10. ^ Adams George Archibald, Return to an Address of the House of Commons...for Copies of All Correspondence with Lieut.-Governor A.G. Archibald, of Manitoba...Regarding the Fenian Invasion of Manitoba, pgs. 4–5 Accessed 11 September 2018
  11. ^ House of Commons, Report of the Select Committee on the Causes of the Difficulties in the North-West Territory in 1869–70 (1874), pgs. 147-9 Accessed 11 September 2018