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Events

March 26 - Louis Riel and the Métis battle the North West Mounted Police at Duck Lake

fought between Canadian forces and the Métis

the Métis are defeated in battle

. The last Cree resistance is shattered.

July 2 - Big Bear captured.

November 7 - The transcontinental railway is completed

November 16 - Riel is Execute d in Regina, Saskatchewan

Banff National Park , the first national park in Canada is established

A Head Tax On Chinese Immigrants is imposed by the federal government

Canada outlaws the Potlatch ceremony among Northwest Coast tribes. The law, often ignored, is repealed in 1951.

Births

January 11 - Gordon Daniel Conant , Premier of Ontario

February 4 - Cairine Wilson , Senator

April 3 - Allan Dwan , filmmaker

June 27 - Arthur Lismer , artist

July 23 - Izaak Walton Killam , financier

July 31 - Charles A. Dunning , Premier of Saskatchewan

August 3 - Charles Hibbert Tupper , politician

October 23 - Lawren Harris , artist

December 5 - Ernest Cormier , architect

December 24 - A.A. Heaps , labour leader

Thomas B. Costain , historical novelist

Deaths

November 16 - Louis Riel , Métis leader