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The first female Student was accepted into Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick

Smallpox sweeps through Fort Victoria area and down the length of the Northwest Coast, killing an estimated 200,000 Indian people - William Duncan, an Anglican missionary on Northwest Coast, establishes village of Metlakatla with 50 Tsimshian followers, who adopt Christian faith and European life-styles. By 1880 more than 1,000 converts live there.

April 7 - United Kingdom-United States treaty for suppression of African slave trade signed.

May 20 - Macdonald - Cartier government falls. Free interprovincial trade granted by the Crown.