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EVENTS

March 25 - Workman's Compensation Act passed in Ontario

April 6 - Vancouver incorporated as a city

June 6 - The Parliament Buildings open in Ottawa

June 7 - Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau becomes the first ever Canadian Cardinal

December 14 - Yoho National Park established

's Liberals win a fifth consecutive majority.

Mohawk Nation men of the Caughnawaga Reserve in Quebec are trained to help build a bridge across the St. Lawrence River beginning a tradition of high steel construction work among the Iroquois .

Construction begins on the Banff Springs Hotel

BIRTHS

January 15 - C.D. Howe , politician

March 4 - Sam Langford , boxer

May 13 - William John Patterson , Premier of Saskatchewan

August 4 - Pierre-François Casgrain , politician

August 30 - Ray Lawson , Lieutenant Governor of Ontario

DEATHS

July 4 - Pitikwahanapiwiyin (Poundmaker), Cree chief