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EVENTS

Abraham Shadd is elected to the town council in Raleigh, Ontario and becomes the first Black elected to public office.

William Hall , born in Hants County, Nova Scotia , becomes the first Nova Scotian and the first Black to win the Victoria Cross for Bravery in the war. The Victoria Cross is the highest military honour in the Commonwealth Of Nations .

The all-Black Victoria Pioneer Rifle Company is formed to defend British Columbia.

De Stoeckl returns to U.S. from St. Petersburg with authority to negotiate the sale of Alaska .

BIRTHS

January 16 - Henry Pellatt , businessman

January 18 - Elizabeth Shortt , politician

April 5 - Robert Franklin Sutherland , politician

May 8 - Edward Patrick Morris , Prime Minister of Newfoundland

June 29 - Peter Verigin , Doukhobor leader

August 4 - Louis-Adolphe Paquet , nationalist

August 10 - Wellington Bartley Willoughby , politician

September 17 - Frank Dawson Adams , geologist

DEATHS