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Encyclopedia > 1879 in Canada

See also: 1878 in Canada, 1880 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.

Events

March 12 - MacDonald introduces protective tariffs on manufactured goods being imported into Canada, a transcontinental railway, and immigration to the west in his National Policy.
April 25 - Sir William Wilfred Sullivan becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Sir Louis Davies
June 5 - Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a third consecutive majority
October 31 - Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Henri-Gustave de Lotbini�re

Births

January 15 - Mazo De la Roche, author
January 17 - Richard G. Reid, Premier of Alberta
January 25 - Humphrey T. Walwyn, Governor of Newfoundland
February 14 - Eli Burton, physicist
March 20 - Maud Menten, scientist
May 25 - Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook), businessman
June 12 - Charles D. Richards, Premier of New Brunswick
August 1 - Eva Tanguay, singer
August 16 - Samuel Lawrence, labour leader
October 6 - James Langstaff Bowman, politician
October 9 - William Warren, Prime Minister of Newfoundland
November 3 - Vilhjalmur Stefansson, explorer
November 11 - Violet McNaughton, feminist
December 24 - �mile Nelligan, poet

Deaths

Categories: 1879 | Years in Canada

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Birth of Canada (13059 words)
	This voyage led to the rediscovery of the eastern shores of Canada.
	In the meantime Canada was swelling with settlers, and the foundations of a British province on the west coast were being laid.
	The building of new settlements went on in the Maritime Provinces and in the Canadas, and early in the century Cape Breton Island was settled by Gaelic-speaking farmers from the Scottish Highlands.

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