1873 in Canada

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Events from the year 1873 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

Federal government

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Territorial governments

Lieutenant governors

Events

January to June 1873

July to December

Sport

Smallpox

In the opening speech to the 1872-1873 Epidemiological Society conference, Inspector-General Robert Lawson drew attention to the recent prevalence of haemorrhagic forms of smallpox in both the United States and Canada, among other countries. During the smallpox pandemic of 1870-1874, the disease had been carried to America by emigrants, where it had already infected thousands, and killed hundreds in eastern cities such as Boston and New York.[2]

Births

January to June

J. E. H. MacDonald

July to December

Full date unknown

Deaths

James William Johnston

Historical documents

Non-confidence moved in House of Commons over Government accepting election funding from group hoping to build CPR[4]

Why the Governor General did not dismiss Prime Minister Macdonald over the Pacific Scandal[5]

Metis leader Ambroise Lepine sentenced to death for the murder of Thomas Scott in 1870 at Red River[6]

House of Commons speeches on issues with Indigenous people in the Northwest Territories[7]

British Columbia Indian superintendent reports on the economic activity of Indigenous people[8]

References

  1. ^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  2. ^ Rolleston, J. D. (1 December 1933). "The Smallpox Pandemic of 1870–1874: President's Address". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 27 (2): 177–192. doi:10.1177/003591573302700245. ISSN 0035-9157.
  3. ^ Elizabeth Gillan Muir; Marilyn Färdig Whiteley (1995). Changing Roles of Women Within the Christian Church in Canada. University of Toronto Press. pp. 340–. ISBN 978-0-8020-7623-6.
  4. ^ "House of Commons; Wednesday, April 2, 1873" House of Commons Debates; First Session – Second Parliament, pg. 179. Accessed 24 September 2018
  5. ^ Governor General Lord Dufferin, Message: Papers Relative to the Prorogation of Parliament on the 13th Day of August 1873 (1873), especially pg. 17 and after. Accessed 15 September 2018
  6. ^ "Sentence" Preliminary Investigation and Trial of Ambroise D. Lepine for the Murder of Thomas Scott (1874), pgs. 124-7. Accessed 15 September 2018
  7. ^ Robert Cunningham; Donald Alexander Smith, Speeches on the Indian Difficulties in the North-West, Delivered(...)in the House of Commons, April 1st, 1873 (1873). Accessed 15 September 2018
  8. ^ "Abstract of the Report of J.W. Powell,(...)1873" Annual Report on Indian Affairs, for Year Ending 30th June, 1872, pgs. 7–10. Accessed 19 September 2018