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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Contents

Events

Arts

Births

Deaths

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 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