1877 in Canada

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

Events

April 29th: Large Fire of Montreal.
June 20th: Large fire of Holy John (New Brunswick), which destroyed 1 612 buildings including eight churches, six banks, fourteen hotels, eleven goélettes and four wood conveyers in a little more than nine hours, on a surface of more than 80 hectares.

Following the Battle of Little Big Horn, Sitting Bull and its Sioux Lakota takes refuge in the Canadian Prairies.

Policy

September 22nd: signature of the Treated No 7 between the Pied-noir and the government.
Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier is named Minister for agriculture and is called with the senate.
Wilfrid Laurier is named Minister for the income.

Justice

Sport

Economy

Science

Culture

February 28th: foundation of the University of Manitoba.

Religion

Births

January 5th: Edgar Nelson Rhodos, Prime Minister of Nova Scotia.
August 5th, Tom Thomson, painter.
Léo-Ernest Ouimet, operator of Ouimetoscope, first cinema in Canada.

Death

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