1879 in Canada

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.

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