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EVENTS

's Liberals win a Majority

February 11 - George Walkem becomes Premier of British Columbia , replacing Amor De Cosmos

April 16 - Louis Riel is barred from taking his seat in the House of Commons.

May 29 - The Libeals introduce electoral reform that introduces the Secret Ballot and abolishes Property Qualifications

July 8 - Marc-Amable Girard becomes premier of Manitoba for the second time, replacing Henry Joseph Clarke

July 26 - Alexander Graham Bell discloses the invention of the telephone to his father at the family home on the outskirts of Brantford, Ontario .

September 22 - Sir Charles-Eugène De Boucherville becomes premier of Quebec , replacing Gédéon Ouimet

October 1 - The North-West Mounted Police base at Fort Macleod is founded

December 3 - Robert Davis becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Marc-Amable Girard

Anabaptist s (Russian Mennonites) start to arrive in Manitoba from various Russian colonies.

The federal Liberal government grants provisional boundaries to Ontario that extend the province to the north and west. These provisional boundaries will not be recognized by the federal Conservatives when they return to power.

BIRTHS

January 5 - James D. Stewart , Premier of Prince Edward Island (PEI)

January 16 - Robert W. Service , poet

February 10 - Walter M. Lea , Premier of PEI

April 14 - Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl Of Athlone , Governor General

June 16 - Arthur Meighen , Prime Minister

July 13 - Norman Dawes , businessman

July 29 - J.S. Woodsworth , politician

October 1 - Arthur Sauvé , politician

October 10 - Roland Fairbairn McWilliams , politician

October 12 - Albert C. Saunders , Premier of PEI

October 25 - Philémon Cousineau , Quebec politician

November 30 - Lucy Maud Montgomery , author

December 17 - William Lyon Mackenzie King

DEATHS