Events from the year 1871 in Canada.
[edit] Events
[edit] January to June
[edit] July to December
- July 15 - Phoebe Campbell murders her husband with an axe. She is hanged the next year.
- July 20
- 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 the first franco-manitoban of premier of Manitoba, replacing Alfred Boyd
- December 20 - Edward Blake becomes premier of Ontario, replacing J. S. Macdonald.
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[edit] Births
- January 30 - Wilfred Lucas, actor, film director and screenwriter (d.1940)
- May 14 - Walter Stanley Monroe, businessman, politician and Prime Minister of Newfoundland (d.1952)
- July 16 - George Stewart Henry, politician and 10th Premier of Ontario (d.1958)
- July 25 - Richard Ernest William Turner, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (d.1961)
- August 4 - Robert Hamilton Butts, politician (d.1943)
- September 8 - Samuel McLaughlin, businessman and philanthropist (d.1972)
- September 9 - Hugh Robson, politician and judge
- October 31 - Alexander Stirling MacMillan, businessman, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1955)
- December 2 - Stanislas Blanchard, politician (d.1949)
- December 13 - Emily Carr, artist and writer (d.1945)
[edit] Deaths
- January 29 - Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, lawyer, writer, fifth and last seigneur of Saint-Jean-Port-Joli (L’Islet County) (b.1786)
- January 31 - John Ross, lawyer, politician, and businessman. (b. 1818)
- February 20 - Paul Kane, artist (b.1810)
- March 11 - John Heckman, political figure (b.1785)
- July 28 - Modeste Demers, missionary (b.1809)
- September 23 - Louis-Joseph Papineau, lawyer, politician and reformist (b.1786)
- November 18 - Enos Collins, seaman, merchant, financier, and legislator (b.1774)