1874 in Canada
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Events from the year 1874 in Canada.
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- January 22 - Federal election: Alexander Mackenzie's Liberals win a majority
- February 11 - George Walkem becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Amor De Cosmos
- April 16 - Louis Riel is barred from taking his seat in the House of Commons.
- May 29 - The Liberals introduce electoral reform that introduces the secret ballot and abolishes property qualifications
- July 8 - Marc-Amable Girard becomes premier of Manitoba for the second time, replacing Henry Joseph Clarke
- July 26 - Alexander Graham Bell discloses the invention of the telephone to his father at the family home on the outskirts of Brantford, Ontario.
- September 22 - Sir Charles-Eugène de Boucherville becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Gédéon Ouimet
- October 1 - The North-West Mounted Police base at Fort Macleod is founded
- December 3 - Robert Davis becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Marc-Amable Girard.
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- Anabaptists (Russian Mennonites) start to arrive in Manitoba from various Russian colonies.
- The federal Liberal government grants provisional boundaries to Ontario that extend the province to the north and west. These provisional boundaries will not be recognized by the federal Conservatives when they return to power.
[edit] Births
[edit] January to June
- January 15 - James David Stewart, educator, lawyer, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1933)
- January 16 - Robert W. Service, poet and writer (d.1958)
- January 29 - Frank Boyes, politician (d.1961)
- February 10 - Walter Lea, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1936)
- April 14 - Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, 16th Governor General of Canada (d.1957)
- June 16 - Arthur Meighen, politician and 9th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1960)
[edit] July to December
- July 13 - Norman Dawes, businessman
- July 29 - J. S. Woodsworth, politician (d.1942)
- October 1 - Arthur Sauvé, politician (d.1944)
- October 10 - Roland Fairbairn McWilliams, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (d.1957)
- October 12 - Albert Charles Saunders, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1943)
- October 25 - Philémon Cousineau, politician (d.1959)
- November 30 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, author (d.1942)
- December 17 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, lawyer, economist, university professor, civil servant, journalist, politician and 10th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1950)
