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Events

March 10 - Government of Manitoba meets for the first time

March 21 - Ontario election: Edward Blake's Liberals win a majority, defeating J. S. Macdonald's Liberal-Conservatives

April 2 - The first Canadian Census finds the population to be 3,689,257

May 8 - The Treaty Of Washington reaches agreements on fishing rights and Great Lakes trade between Canada and the United States

May 17 - New Brunswick abandons separate schools

July - Phoebe Campbell murders her husband with an axe. She is hanged the next year.

July 20 - British Columbia joins the Confederation.

July 25 - Treaty Number 1 the first of a number of treaties with western Canada's First Nations is signed

August 17 - Treaty Number 2 is signed

November 11 - The last of the British army leaves Canada

November 13 - John McCreight becomes the first premier of British Columbia

December 14 - Marc-Amable Girard becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Alfred Boyd

December 20 - Edward Blake becomes premier of Ontario, replacing J. S. Macdonald

National Meteorological Service is formed

Parliament legalizes the use of the Metric System

Goldwin Smith immigrates to Canada

Births

January 30 - Wilfred Lucas , actor

May 14 - Walter Stanley Monroe , Prime Minister of Newfoundland

July 16 - George Stewart Henry , Premier of Ontario

July 25 - Richard Turner - war hero

September 9 - Hugh Robson , Manitoba politician

October 31 - Alexander S. MacMillan , Premier of Nova Scotia

December 13 - Emily Carr , artist and writer

Deaths

September 23 - Louis-Joseph Papineau , rebel