1880 in Canada

1880 in Canada

"See also:"
1879 in Canada,
other events of 1880,
1881 in Canada and the
Timeline of Canadian history.

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Events

* February 4 - Five members of the Donnelly family are killed near Lucan, Ontario
* February 14 - The wife of the governor general, The Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne, is seriously injured when the viceregal sleigh overturns on an Ottawa street.
* March 6 - The Royal Academy for the Arts is founded
* March 25 - George Brown fatally shot by a disgruntled employee
* May 4 - Edward Blake becomes the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
* June 24 - "O Canada" first performed
* October 9 - The United Kingdom gives Canada control of the Arctic islands.
* Emily Stowe becomes the first woman doctor to practise medicine in Canada
* Sanford Fleming becomes chancellor of Queen's University
* Bell Canada founded
* Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). British-backed Canadian firm, headed by US railroad building genius (Sir William Cornelius Van Horne) gets the deal: $25 million, 25 million acres (100,000 km²), already completed sections free, all under-construction sections finished free, 20 year monopoly as only railroad and 20 year control over rate-setting.

Arts

:New books
*Charles G.D. Roberts, "Orion and Other Poems":Newspapers
*"The Varsity", created.

Births

*January 17 - Mack Sennett, comedian
*January 18 - Richard Squires, Prime Minister of Newfoundland
*March 22 - Allison A. Dysart, Premier of New Brunswick
*August 6 - Leland Payson Bancroft, politician
*August 12 - Jacob Penner, politician
*August 29 - Marie-Louise Meilleur, briefly world longest-lived person
*October 12 - Healey Willan, organist
*October 27 - 9th Earl of Bessborough, Governor General

Deaths

*May 9, George Brown, Father of Confederation


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