1875 in Canada

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Events from the year 1875 in Canada.

Incumbents

January 14 – The Halifax Herald is first published.
January 18 – 1875 Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a second consecutive majority.
March 1 – The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto) is founded.
April 5 – The Supreme Court of Canada is created.
April 8 – The Northwest Territories is given a lieutenant-governor 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.
June 30 – The Land Purchase Act comes into effect in Prince Edward Island in order to address the "land question", one of the issues that had prompted the colony to join Confederation.
July 7 – 1875 Quebec election: Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority.
July 20 – 1875 British Columbia election.
September 2 – The Guibord Affair, violence resulting from the 1874 Guibord case, breaks out.

Convent Scandal: During the winter in Montreal, typhoid fever strikes at a convent school. The corpses of the victims are filched by body-snatchers before relatives arrive from America, causing much furor.^[2] Eventually the Anatomy Act of Quebec is changed over it.^[3]
Louis Riel is granted amnesty with the condition that he be banished for five years.
Jennifer Trout becomes the first woman licensed to practise medicine in Canada, although Emily Stowe has been doing so without a licence in Toronto since 1867.
Grace Lockhart receives from Mount Allison University the first Bachelor of Arts degree awarded to a woman.

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir

June 15 – Herman Smith-Johannsen, ski pioneer and supercentenarian (d.1987)
August 2 – Albert Hickman, politician and 17th Prime Minister of Newfoundland (d.1943)
August 21 – Winnifred Eaton, author (d.1954)
August 22 – François Blais, politician (d.1949)
August 26 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, novelist, politician and 15th Governor General of Canada (d.1940)
September 6 – Edith Berkeley, biologist
October 5 – Anne-Marie Huguenin, journalist
November 19 – John Knox Blair, politician, physician and teacher (d.1950)
December 5 – Arthur Currie, World War I general (d.1933)

March 1 – Henry Kellett, officer in the Royal Navy, oceanographer, Arctic explorer (b.1806)
June 22 – William Edmond Logan, geologist (b.1798)
July 15 – Charles La Rocque, priest and third Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe (b.1809)
July 22 – Amable Éno, dit Deschamps, political figure (b.1785)
August 21 – George Coles, Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1810)
December 14 – Marie-Anne Gaboury, female explorer (b.1780)

Rev. George Bryce details Presbyterian Church's "heathen" mission work among 80,000 Indigenous people in North-West Territories^[5]

^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
^ Gordon, Richard (1994). The Alarming History of Medicine. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 12. ISBN 0-312-10411-1.
^ History of Medicine Days Archived 2004-06-15 at the Wayback Machine, p. 132.
^ "Sir John A. Macdonald at Montreal" and "Speech of Hon. C. Tupper, C.B. at Halifax" Liberal Conservative Hand-Book; Grits in Office; Profession and Practice Contrasted (Published under the Auspices of the Conservative Associations of the Dominion, 1876), pgs. 3-25 and 27-48, respectively. Accessed 16 September 2018
^ George Bryce, The Presbyterian Church in Canada, and the Canadian North-West (1875). Accessed 6 September 2021
^ Zacharie Vincent, "Zacharie Vincent Telari-o-lin Indian Huron Chief His Portrait Painted By Himself" (ca. 1875-80), Chateau Ramezay – Historic Site and Museum of Montreal. Accessed 18 May 2022