Events

• April 7 - United Kingdom-United States treaty for suppression of African slave trade is signed.
• May 20 - Macdonald
  John A. Macdonald
  Sir John Alexander Macdonald, GCB, KCMG, PC, PC , QC was the first Prime Minister of Canada. The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, his political career spanned almost half a century...
  
  -Cartier
  George-Étienne Cartier
  Sir George-Étienne Cartier, 1st Baronet, PC was a French-Canadian statesman and Father of Confederation.The English spelling of the name, George, instead of Georges, the usual French spelling, is explained by his having been named in honour of King George III....
  
   government falls. Free interprovincial trade granted by the Crown.

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• The first female student
  Student
  A student is a learner, or someone who attends an educational institution. In some nations, the English term is reserved for those who attend university, while a schoolchild under the age of eighteen is called a pupil in English...
  
   is accepted into Mount Allison University
  Mount Allison University
  Mount Allison University is a primarily undergraduate Canadian liberal arts and science university situated in Sackville, New Brunswick. It is located about a half hour from the regional city of Moncton and 20 minutes from the Greater Moncton International Airport...
  
   in Sackville, New Brunswick
  Sackville, New Brunswick
  Sackville is a Canadian town in Westmorland County, New Brunswick.Mount Allison University is located in the town...
  
  
• Smallpox
  Smallpox
  Smallpox was an infectious disease unique to humans, caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor. The disease is also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera, which is a derivative of the Latin varius, meaning "spotted", or varus, meaning "pimple"...
  
   sweeps through Fort Victoria area and down the length of the northwest coast, killing an estimated 200,000 Indian people - William Duncan, an Anglican missionary on the northwest coast, establishes the village of Metlakatla with 50 Tsimshian
  Tsimshian
  The Tsimshian are an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Tsimshian translates to Inside the Skeena River. Their communities are in British Columbia and Alaska, around Terrace and Prince Rupert and the southernmost corner of Alaska on Annette Island. There are approximately 10,000...
  
   followers, who adopt the Christian faith and a European lifestyle. By 1880, more than 1,000 converts live there.
• Construction begins on the Cariboo Wagon Road to link coastal shipping to Barkerville
  Barkerville, British Columbia
  Barkerville was the main town of the Cariboo Gold Rush in British Columbia, Canada and is preserved as a historic town. It is located on the north slope of the Cariboo Plateau near the Cariboo Mountains east of Quesnel along BC Highway 26, which follows the route of the original access to...
  
   and the Cariboo goldfields
  Cariboo Gold Rush
  The Cariboo Gold Rush was a gold rush in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Although the first gold discovery was made in 1859 at Horsefly Creek, followed by more strikes at Keithley Creek and Antler Horns lake in 1860, the actual rush did not begin until 1861, when these discoveries were...
  
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Births

• January 9 - Joseph-Octave Samson
  Joseph-Octave Samson
  Joseph-Octave Samson was a Canadian politician, serving as Mayor of Quebec City from March 1920 to March 1926....
  
  , businessperson, politician and 28th Mayor of Quebec City (d.1945
  1945 in Canada
  -Events:* January 8 - Brantford, Ontario becomes the first Canadian community to fluoridate its water supply.* 1944-1945: World War II: Japan's Special Balloon Regiment drops 9,000 balloon bombs over the Pacific Northwest, intended to cause panic, by starting forest fires. Six casualties, a woman...
  
  )

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• Laura Borden
  Laura Borden
  Laura, Lady Borden was the wife of Sir Robert Laird Borden, the eighth Prime Minister of Canada.She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia to a local hardware merchant and married Borden on September 25, 1889....
  
  , wife of Robert Borden
  Robert Borden
  Sir Robert Laird Borden, PC, GCMG, KC was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as the eighth Prime Minister of Canada from October 10, 1911 to July 10, 1920, and was the third Nova Scotian to hold this office...
  
  , 8th Prime Minister of Canada
  Prime Minister of Canada
  The Prime Minister of Canada is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus head of government for Canada, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or viceroy on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution...
  
   (d.1940
  1940 in Canada
  -January to June:*March 13 - David Boon becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Allison Dysart*March 21 - Alberta election: William Aberhart's Social Credit Party wins a second consecutive majority...
  
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Deaths

• August 8 - Allan MacNab
  Allan MacNab
  Sir Allan Napier MacNab, 1st Baronet was a Canadian political leader and Premier of the Province of Canada before Canadian Confederation .-Biography:...
  
  , businessman, soldier, lawyer and politician (b.1798
  1798 in Canada
  -Events:*David Thompson travels to Mandan villages and charts headwaters of Mississippi River*A new fur trading company is formed to compete with the North West Company...
  
  )
• August 18 - Simon Fraser
  Simon Fraser (explorer)
  Simon Fraser was a fur trader and an explorer who charted much of what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia. Fraser was employed by the Montreal-based North West Company. By 1805, he had been put in charge of all the company's operations west of the Rocky Mountains...
  
  , fur-trader and explorer (b.1776
  1776 in Canada
  -Events:* 1776-77 - Capt. James Cook of England explores the Pacific Northwest.* US Revolutionary war. United Empire Loyalists move to Upper Canada and settle ....
  
  )