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Canada-related events during the year of 1878
Events from the year 1878 in Canada .
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
Events
Full date unknown
Births
Ernest Charles Drury
January to June
January 11 –
Percy Chapman Black , politician (d.
1961 )
January 13 –
Lionel Groulx , priest, historian, Quebec nationalist and traditionalist (d.
1967 )
January 22 –
Ernest Charles Drury , politician, writer and 8th
Premier of Ontario (d.
1968 )
February 27 –
William Herbert Burns , politician (d.
1964 )
February 28 –
Arthur Roebuck , politician and labour lawyer (d.
1971 )
April 14 –
John Walter Jones , politician and Premier of
Prince Edward Island (d.
1954 )
April 29 –
Fawcett Taylor , politician
June 14 –
Lewis Stubbs , judge and politician (d.
1958 )
June 20 –
Seymour Farmer , politician (d.
1951 )
July to December
Deaths
February 23 –
William Workman , businessman and municipal politician (b.
1807 )
April 3 –
Louis-Philippe Turcotte , historian (b.
1842 )
April 12 –
John Young , politician (b.
1811 )
May 13 –
George Moffat, Sr. , businessman and politician (b.
1810 )
May 20 –
Lemuel Allan Wilmot , lawyer, politician, judge, and 3rd
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (b.
1809 )
November 3 –
Pierre Bachand , politician (b.
1835 )
November 28 –
Francis Evans Cornish , politician (b.
1831 )
December 6 –
Jean-Baptiste Meilleur , doctor, educator and politician (b.
1796 )
Historical documents
J.A. Macdonald 's speech about the dismissal of Quebec's government by its
lieutenant-governor
[2]
Hudson's Bay Company policy change causes
Indigenous people to starve in the Sept-Îles, Que. area
[3]
Editorial foresees great immigration as Winnipeg inaugurates
regular train service
[4]
Arrivals in
Manitoba find the good land is "taken" and freight and other costs are exorbitant
[5]
First apples and pears arrive in
Battleford , causing homesickness
[6]
References
1878 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories