1871 in Canada

"See also:"
1870 in Canada,
other events of 1871,
1872 in Canada and the
list of 'years in Canada'.

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Events

* March 10 - Government of Manitoba meets for the first time
* March 21 - Ontario election: Edward Blake's Liberals win a majority, defeating J. S. Macdonald's Liberal-Conservatives
* April 2 - The first Canadian census finds the population to be 3,689,257
* May 8 - The Treaty of Washington reaches agreements on fishing rights and Great Lakes trade between Canada and the United States
* May 17 - New Brunswick abandons separate schools
* July - 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 premier of Manitoba, replacing Alfred Boyd
* December 20 - Edward Blake becomes premier of Ontario, replacing J. S. Macdonald
* National Meteorological Service is formed
* Parliament legalizes the use of the metric system
* Goldwin Smith immigrates to Canada
* Ontario Schools Act is passed in Ontario, requiring all students aged 7 to 12 to attend school.

Births

* January 30 - Wilfred Lucas, actor
* May 14 - Walter Stanley Monroe, Prime Minister of Newfoundland
* July 16 - George Stewart Henry, Premier of Ontario
* July 25 - Richard Turner - war hero
* September 9 - Hugh Robson, Manitoba politician
* October 31 - Alexander S. MacMillan, Premier of Nova Scotia
* December 2 - Stanislas Blanchard, politician
* December 13 - Emily Carr, artist and writer

Deaths

* September 23 - Louis-Joseph Papineau, rebel