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

Events

Policy

• April 25th: Sir William Wilfred Sullivan becomes Prime Minister for the Island-of-Prince-Edouard, substitute Sir Louis Henry Davies.

• June 5th: Election in Ontario: The liberals of Sir Oliver Mowat gains a third consecutive majority.
• on July first is established like Fête of Canada.
• October 31st: Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau becomes the Prime Minister for Quebec, substitute Henri-Gustave Jolly de Lotbinière. Installation of sound government.

Justice

• the mongrels of the Territoires of the North-West claim by petitions with the government the official recognition of their property and that future land surveying respects the provision of their fields, perpendicular to the rivers.

Sport

Economy

• March 12th: Protectionist customs tariff of the Canadian Confederation introduces by John A. Macdonald.

Science

Culture

Religion

• Mars, in spite of one soft winter, a embacle is formed on the Fleuve the St. Lawrence close to the Cape-of-the-Madeleine. That allows the transport of stone on the ice of the river for the construction of the new church. This phenomenon was called Pont of the chains. Notre-Dame of the Cape will become a place of pilgrimage.

Births

• January 15th: Mazo of the Rock, auteure.
• January 17th: Richard Gavin Reid, Prime Minister of Alberta.
• January 25th: Humphrey T. Walwyn, governor of Newfoundland.
• February 14th: Eli Burton, physicist.
• March 20th: Maud Menten, scientistic
• December 24th: Emile Nelligan, poet.

Death

• October 7th, William Henry Pope, father of the Confederation.
• Robert-Shore-Milnes Bouchette, politician.
• Octave Crémazie, writer and poet.