1876 in Canada

The year was remembered by several events which changed the life of the Canadians.

Events

Policy

: Andrew Charles Elliott becomes Prime Minister for the Colombia-British in the place of George Anthony Walkem.
April 12th: Creation of the District of Keewatin removed to the Territories of the North-West.
June 1st: Opening of the Military College off Canada, which will become later the royal military College of Canada.
August: Louis Henry Davies becomes Prime Minister for the Island-of-Prince-Edouard.

Emily Howard Stowe founds the Women' S Literary Club of Toronto, first group of Suffragette S of Canada.

Justice

Law on the Indians.

Sport

Economy

July 1st: the Intercolonial Railway connects central Canada to the Seaboard provinces.
Foundation of the mining city of Thetford Mines. Development of the mines of Asbestos.
Arrived Icelandic colonists on the edges of the Lake Winnipeg (Manitoba).

Science

Sandford Fleming proposes the system of the time zones.

Culture

Religion

Births

September 6th: John James Richard Macleod, scientist in medicine and Nobel Prize.
October 6th: Ernest Lapointe, politician.

Death

Rene-Edouard Charon, lieutenant-governor of Quebec.

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