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EVENTS

January 14 - The Halifax Herald was first published

's Liberals win a second consecutive Majority

April 5 - The Supreme Court Of Canada is created

April 8 - The Northwest Territories is given a government separate from that of Manitoba .

May 11 - Philip Carteret Hill becomes Premier Of Nova Scotia , replacing William Annand

June 1 - Construction begins on the Canadian Pacific Railway

September 2 - The Guibord Affair , violence resulting from the 1874 Guibord Case , breaks out

Louis Riel is granted Amnesty with the condition that he be Banished for five years.

Jennifer Trout becomes the first woman licensed to practice Medicine in Canada, although Emily Stowe has been doing so without a license in Toronto since 1867

Grace Lockhart receives from Mount Allison University the first Bachelor Of Arts degree awarded to a woman.

Hospital For Sick Children founded.

BIRTHS

June 12 - Sam De Grasse , actor

June 16 - Herman Johannsen , skier

August 2 - Albert Hickman , Prime Minister of Newfoundland

August 21 - Winnifred Eaton , author

August 26 - John Buchan , Governor General

September 6 - Edith Berkeley , biologist

October 5 - Anne-Marie Huguenin , journalist

December 5 - Arthur Currie , WWI army general

DEATHS

June 22 - William Edmond Logan , geologist