Events from the year1881 in Canada .
Provincial governments [ edit ] Lieutenant governors [ edit ] Territorial governments [ edit ] Lieutenant governors [ edit ] Manitoba 's boundaries are extended north, east and west.Ontario disputes the eastward extension.January 2 –Frederick Varley , artist and member of theGroup of Seven (d.1969 ) January 20 –Fred Dixon , politician (d.1931 ) March 18 –Oliver Seibert , professional ice hockey player (d.1944 ) June 17 –Tommy Burns , only Canadian born world heavyweight champion boxer (d.1955 ) September 27 –James Ralston , lawyer, soldier, politician and Minister (d.1948 ) October 23 –Al Christie , film director, producer and screenwriter (d.1951 ) November 4 –Hector Authier , politician, lawyer and news reporter/announcer (d.1971 ) November 19 –Robert James Manion , politician (d.1943 ) December 20 –Télesphore-Damien Bouchard , politician (d.1962 ) December 29 –George Washington Kendall (d.1921 ) December 31 –Albert Sévigny , politician (d.1961 ) December 31 –Elizabeth Arden (birth name, Florence Nightingale Graham), founder, Elizabeth Arden cosmetics (d.1966) Historical documents [ edit ] John A. Macdonald expounds onCPR 's troubled past and secure future in House of Commons speech[ 2]
British editorial labelsCPR and Canada bad investments[ 3]
Wilfrid Laurier accuses Conservatives of "having sacrificed the public cause to personal cupidity"[ 4]
Governor General speaks on prospects of Northwest Territories[ 5]
Importance ofsteamboats tocolonization alongSaskatchewan River [ 6]
Ojibwa entertainGovernor General at Rat Portage (Kenora ), Ont. (Note:racial stereotypes )[ 7]
ChiefPoundmaker tellsCree andBlackfoot legends toGovernor General on tour[ 8]
ColourfulBlackfoot riders meetGovernor General (Note: "savage" and otherstereotypes )[ 9]
Journalist describes beautifulQu'Appelle Valley in gorgeous sunset[ 10]
Nova Scotia woman tries to find amaid for $4/month, and describes some of the work[ 11]
^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia" .www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved5 December 2022 .^ Canada; Parliament; House of Commons, Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada; 4th Parliament, 3rd Session (1881), pgs. 485-98. Accessed 4 October 2019http://www.collectionscanada.ca/2/4/h4-4013-e.html ^ A Wrong Forecast of a False Prophet; Editorial from London "Truth," September 1st, 1881 ("From Press Clippings of A.B. Chaffee, Manager, International Railway Guide, Montreal, Que."). Accessed 5 October 2019http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1014/1.html ^ Ulric Barthe, Wilfrid Laurier on the Platform; Collection of the Principal Speeches[...] (1890), pgs. 143-6. Accessed 5 October 2019http://www.archive.org/stream/wilfridlaurieron00lauruoft#page/142/mode/2up/ ^ Canada; Department of Agriculture, The Canadian North-West: Speech Delivered at Winnipeg [by] Governor General[...] (1881). Accessed 5 October 2019http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/959.html ^ "Wreck of the Saskatchewan Steamer," from Edmonton Bulletin (November 5, 1881). Accessed 4 October 2019http://www.canadahistory.com/sections/documents/thewest/sasksteamerwreak.htm ^ William H. Williams, Manitoba and the North-West; Journal of a Trip from Toronto to the Rocky Mountains[...] (1882), pgs. 32-3. Accessed 4 October 2019http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1020/39.html ^ William H. Williams, Manitoba and the North-West; Journal of a Trip from Toronto to the Rocky Mountains[...] (1882), pg. 105 and after. Accessed 4 October 2019http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1020/112.html ^ William H. Williams, Manitoba and the North-West; Journal of a Trip from Toronto to the Rocky Mountains[...] (1882), pgs. 118-19. Accessed 4 October 2019http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1020/125.html ^ William H. Williams, Manitoba and the North-West; Journal of a Trip from Toronto to the Rocky Mountains[...] (1882), pg. 66. Accessed 5 October 2019http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1020/73.html ^ Letter of Eliza Cunningham to her mother, Catherine McQueen, April 19, 1881, Dartmouth, The McQueen Family Papers, Atlantic Canada Virtual Archives. Accessed 5 October 2019http://atlanticportal.hil.unb.ca/acva/en/mcqueen/letters/search/text.php?pt=1&d=575
1881 in North America
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