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EVENTS

February 4 - Five members of the Donnelly Family are killed near Lucan, Ontario

February 14 - The wife of the governor general, The Princess Louise, Marchioness Of Lorne , is seriously injured when the viceregal sleigh overturns on an Ottawa street.

March 6 - The Royal Academy For The Arts is founded

March 25 - George Brown fatally shot by a disgruntled employee

May 4 - Edward Blake becomes the new leader of the Liberal Party Of Canada

June 24 - " O Canada " first performed

October 9 - The United Kingdom gives Canada control of the Arctic islands.

Emily Stowe becomes the first woman doctor to practise medicine in Canada

Sanford Fleming becomes chancellor of Queen's University

Bell Canada founded

Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). British-backed Canadian firm, headed by US railroad building genius (Sir William Cornelius Van Horne ) gets the deal: $25 million, 25 million acres (100,000 km²), already completed sections free, all under-construction sections finished free, 20 year monopoly as only railroad and 20 year control over rate-setting.

ARTS

:New books

Charles G.D. Roberts , ''Orion and Other Poems''

'' The Varsity '', created.

BIRTHS

January 17 - Mack Sennett , comedian

January 18 - Richard Squires , Prime Minister of Newfoundland

March 22 - Allison A. Dysart , Premier of New Brunswick

August 12 - Jacob Penner , politician

August 29 - Marie-Louise Meilleur , briefly world longest-lived person

October 12 - Healey Willan , organist

October 27 - 9th Earl Of Bessborough , Governor General

DEATHS

May 9 , George Brown , Father Of Confederation