1871 in Canada
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| Years in Canada: | 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 |
| Centuries: | 18th century · 19th century · 20th century |
| Decades: | 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s |
| Years: | 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 |
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Events from the year 1871 in Canada.
Contents
Incumbents
Crown
- Head of state (monarch) – Queen Victoria (consort – Vacant)
Federal government
- Governor general – John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar (viceregal consort – Adelaide Dalton)
- Prime minister – John A. Macdonald
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Joseph Trutch (from July 5)
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Adams George Archibald
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Lemuel Allan Wilmot
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Charles Hastings Doyle
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Pearce Howland
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia – John Foster McCreight (from November 14)
- Premier of Manitoba – Alfred Boyd (until December 14) then Marc-Amable Girard
- Premier of New Brunswick – George Edwin King (until February 21) then George Luther Hathaway
- Premier of Nova Scotia – William Annand
- Premier of Ontario – John Sandfield Macdonald (until December 20) then Edward Blake
- Premier of Quebec – Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
Events
January to June
- March 10 - Government of Manitoba meets for the first time
- March 21 - The 1871 Ontario election: Edward Blake's Liberals win a majority, defeating J. S. Macdonald's Liberal-Conservatives
- April 2 - The first Canadian census finds the population to be 3,689,257
- May 8 - The Treaty of Washington reaches agreements on fishing rights and Great Lakes trade between Canada and the United States
- May 16 - The 1871 Nova Scotia election: William Annand's Liberals win a second consecutive majority
- May 17 - New Brunswick abandons separate schools.
July to December
- July 15 - Phoebe Campbell murders her husband with an axe. She is hanged the next year.
- July 20
- British Columbia joins Confederation.
- The 1871 British Columbia election
- 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.
Full date unknown
- National Meteorological Service is formed
- Parliament legalizes the use of the metric system
- Goldwin Smith immigrates to Canada
- Ontario Schools Act is passed in Ontario, requiring all students aged 7 to 12 to attend school.
- The 1871 Quebec election : Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau's Conservatives win a second consecutive majority
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)
Deaths
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Modeste Demers
- 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)
