1882 in Canada
Canada-related events during the year of 1882
Events from the year 1882 in Canada .
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
Events
Full date unknown
Sport
October 21 – The Canadian Rugby Football Union is founded. {Reference is needed. The link cited as well as the Rugby Canada Wiki note different years (1880 and 1884 respectively)}
Births
Louis St. Laurent
January to June
January 8 – David Milne , painter, printmaker and writer (d.1953 )
February 1 – Louis St. Laurent , politician and 12th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1973 )
February 2 – Geoffrey O'Hara , composer, singer and music professor (d.1967 )
February 4 – E. J. Pratt , poet (d.1964 )
February 11 – John Queen , politician (d.1946 )
March 6 – Barbara Hanley , first woman to be elected a mayor in Canada (d.1959 )
April 18 – Isabel Meighen , wife of Canadian prime minister Arthur Meighen (d. 1985 )
May 26 – Charles Edward Bothwell , politician and barrister (d.1967 )
June 9 – Robert Kerr , sprinter and Olympic gold medallist (d.1963 )
July to December
Deaths
Historical documents
Prime Minister Macdonald explains near-starvation policy to control Indigenous peoples [2]
Prime Minister Macdonald welcomes Chinese as CPR labourers, but not as settlers [3]
MP tells House of Commons that land policy in N.W.T. should favour settler over speculator[4]
Alberta ranchers endure hunger while struggling through multi-day snowstorm[5]
Ontario School of Art teaches freehand and model drawing , geometry, perspective, advanced freehand, ornamental design, watercolours , and oil [6]
References
^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia" . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 5 December 2022 .
^ House of Commons Debates, 4th Parliament, 4th Session; Vol. 1 , pg. 15 . Accessed 8 October 2019
^ Canada; Parliament; House of Commons, Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada (1882), pg. 1477. Accessed 5 October 2019
^ Speech Delivered by John Charlton, M.P., on the Government Land Policy in the North-West; From Official Debates; House of Commons, Session 1882 (1882). Accessed 5 October 2019
^ Alexander Staveley Hill, From Home to Home; Autumn Wanderings in the Northwest [...] (1885), pgs. 195-212 . Accessed 5 October 2019
^ Ontario School of Art (re-opening October 10, 1882), Joseph Brant and family fonds, Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 16 December 2022
1882 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories