Events from the year 1875 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

Federal government

* Governor General – Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood * Prime Minister – Alexander Mackenzie * Chief Justice – William Buell Richards (Ontario) (from 30 September 1875) * Parliament of Canada, Parliament – 3rd Canadian Parliament, 3rd

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

*Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Joseph Trutch *Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Alexander Morris (politician), Alexander Morris *Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley *Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Adams George Archibald *Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Willoughby Crawford (until May 13) then Donald Alexander Macdonald (from May 18) *Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Robert Hodgson (judge), Robert Hodgson *Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – René-Édouard Caron

Premiers

*Premier of British Columbia – George Anthony Walkem *Premier of Manitoba – Robert Atkinson Davis *Premier of New Brunswick – George Edwin King *Premier of Nova Scotia – William Annand (until May 8) then Philip Carteret Hill (from May 11) *Premier of Ontario – Oliver Mowat *Premier of Prince Edward Island – Lemuel Cambridge Owen *Premier of Quebec – Charles Boucher de Boucherville

Territorial governments

Lieutenant governors

* Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories – Alexander Morris (politician), Alexander Morris

Events

*January 14 – The ''Halifax Herald'' is first published *January 18 – 1875 Ontario general election, 1875 Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberal Party of Canada, Liberals win a second consecutive majority *March 1 – The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto) is founded *April 5 – The Supreme Court of Canada is created *April 8 – The Northwest Territories is given a lieutenant-governor separate from that of Manitoba. *May 11 – Philip Carteret Hill becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing William Annand *June 1 – Construction begins on the Canadian Pacific Railway *June 30 – The Land Purchase Act (1875), Land Purchase Act comes into effect in Prince Edward Island in order to address the "land question", one of the issues that had prompted the colony to join Canadian Confederation, Confederation *July 7 – 1875 Quebec general election, 1875 Quebec election: Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville's Conservative Party of Quebec (historical), Conservatives win a third consecutive majority *July 20 – 1875 British Columbia general election, 1875 British Columbia election *September 2 – The Guibord Affair, violence resulting from the 1874 Guibord case, breaks out

Full date unknown

* Convent Scandal: During the winter in Montreal, typhoid fever strikes at a convent school. The corpses of the victims are filched by Body-snatching, body-snatchers before relatives arrive from America, causing much furor. Eventually the Anatomy Act of Quebec is changed over it. *Louis Riel is granted amnesty with the condition that he be banishment, banished for five years. *Jennifer Trout becomes the first woman licensed to practise medicine in Canada, although Emily Stowe has been doing so without a licence in Toronto since 1867 *Grace Lockhart receives from Mount Allison University the first Bachelor of Arts degree awarded to a woman.

Births

*February 26 – Edith Jane Miller, concert contralto singer (d. 1936 in Canada, 1936) *March 29 – Harry James Barber, politician (d.1959 in Canada, 1959) *June 12 – Sam De Grasse, actor (d.1953 in Canada, 1953) btweedsmuir2

*June 15 – Herman Smith-Johannsen, ski pioneer and supercentenarian (d.1987 in Canada, 1987) *August 2 – Albert Hickman, politician and 17th Prime Minister of Dominion of Newfoundland, Newfoundland (d.1943 in Canada, 1943) *August 21 – Winnifred Eaton (writer), Winnifred Eaton, author (d.1954 in Canada, 1954) *August 22 – François Blais (Member of Parliament), François Blais, politician (d.1949 in Canada, 1949) *August 26 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, novelist, politician and 15th Governor General of Canada (d.1940 in Canada, 1940) *September 6 – Edith Berkeley, biologist *October 5 – Anne-Marie Huguenin, journalist *November 19 – John Knox Blair, politician, physician and teacher (d.1950 in Canada, 1950) *December 5 – Arthur Currie, World War I general (d.1933 in Canada, 1933)

Deaths

*March 1 – Henry Kellett, officer in the Royal Navy, oceanographer, Arctic explorer (b.1806 in Canada, 1806) *June 22 – William Edmond Logan, geologist (b.1798 in Canada, 1798) *July 15 – Charles La Rocque, priest and third Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe, Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe (b.1809 in Canada, 1809) *July 22 – Amable Éno, dit Deschamps, political figure (b.1785 in Canada, 1785) *August 21 – George Coles (politician), George Coles, Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1810 in Canada, 1810) *December 14 – Marie-Anne Gaboury, female List of explorers, explorer (b.1780 in Canada, 1780)

Historical documents

Now in Official Opposition (Canada), Opposition, John A. Macdonald#Opposition, 1873–1878, J.A. Macdonald and Charles Tupper#Years in Opposition, 1874–1878, Charles Tupper criticize the Alexander Mackenzie (politician)#Prime Minister (1873–1878), Liberal government Rev. George Bryce details Presbyterian Church in Canada#The Presbyterian Church in Canada 1875%E2%80%931925, Presbyterian Church's "heathen" mission work among 80,000 Indigenous people in Northwest Territories, North-West Territories Painting: Huron-Wendat Nation, Huron-Wendat Timeline of Native American art history#19th century, Chief Telari-o-lin's self-portraitZacharie Vincent
"Zacharie Vincent Telari-o-lin Indian Huron Chief His Portrait Painted By Himself"
(ca. 1875-80), Chateau Ramezay – Historic Site and Museum of Montreal. Accessed 18 May 2022

References

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