1880 in Canada explained

Events from the year 1880 in Canada.

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Statute creates Canadian Pacific Railway as government-supported private company for benefit of B.C. and N.W.T.[2]

Chief Ocean Man and another Nakoda (Stoney) describe attack on their people by Gros Ventre and Mandan from U.S. side of border[3]

British order-in-council transfers Arctic islands to Dominion of Canada[4]

Using words like "terrible evil" and "usurpation," Anti-Chinese Association petitions British Columbia legislature to stop Chinese immigration[5]

Editorial on complaints of French-Canadians[6]

Walt Whitman calls Thousand Islands most beautiful place on Earth[7]

To avoid bankruptcy caused by westward expansion, Canada must declare independence[8]

Britain gifts part of to U.S. for saving that Arctic exploration ship[9]

Painting: Trapper approaches animal caught in leghold trap[10]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Queen Victoria The Canadian Encyclopedia . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . 5 December 2022.
  2. http://members.kos.net/sdgagnon/cpa.html An Act Respecting the Canadian Pacific Railway
  3. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1881/d347 "No. 343; (letter of) Sir Edward Thornton to Mr. (Wm. M.) Evarts(Department of State, Washington)"
  4. Gordon W. Smith, "The Transfer of Arctic Territories from Great Britain to Canada(...)" Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America, Vol. 14, No. 1 (1961), pgs. 62-3. Accessed 14 October 2019
  5. https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/chung/chungtext/items/1.0354902 "Petition"
  6. http://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3557130 "A Morbid Nationalism"
  7. http://archive.org/stream/waltwhitmansdiar00whituoft#page/24/mode/1up Walt Whitman's Diary in Canada
  8. William Norris, "Canadian Nationality; A Present-Day Plea" Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review (February 1880), pgs. 113-18. Accessed 23 April 2020
  9. United States Department of State, Index to the Executive Documents of the House of Representatives for the Third Session of the Forty-Sixth Congress, 1880-'81 (No. 354, August 26, 1880), pg. 525. Accessed 27 September 2019
  10. Harry Bullock-Webster, "Got 'im at last; Fort McLeod 1880" (Fort McLeod, B.C.). Accessed 27 June 2021