1882 in Canada

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Events from the year 1882 in Canada.

Incumbents

May 8 – Prince Edward Island election: William Wilfred Sullivan's Conservatives win a fourth consecutive majority
May 17 – Provisional districts of the North-West Territories are established between Manitoba and British Columbia: the districts of Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Athabaska
May 25 – John Sparrow David Thompson becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Simon H. Holmes.
June – New Brunswick election
June 20
- Federal election: Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservatives win a second consecutive majority.
- Nova Scotia election
June 13 – Robert Beaven becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing George Walkem.
July 20 – British Columbia election
July 31 – Joseph-Alfred Mousseau becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau.
August 3 – William T. Pipes becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing John Sparrow David Thompson.
December 30 – The Royal Society of Canada is founded.

Daniel Hanington becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing James Fraser.
John Ware, a Texas cowboy, moves to Alberta. He introduces longhorn cattle into Canada and pioneers the development of rodeo.
Newfoundland election
The North-West Mounted Police (which later became the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) established a post in 1882 in Regina, Saskatchewan. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (R.C.M.P.) have since established their main training academy there, which is called "Depot", or Depot Division.
The North Bay Police Service is founded.

October 21 – The Canadian Rugby Football Union is founded. {Reference is needed. The link cited as well as the Rugby Canada Wiki note different years (1880 and 1884 respectively)}

Louis St. Laurent

January 8 – David Milne, painter, printmaker and writer (d.1953)
February 1 – Louis St. Laurent, politician and 12th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1973)
February 2 – Geoffrey O'Hara, composer, singer and music professor (d.1967)
February 4 – E. J. Pratt, poet (d.1964)
February 11 – John Queen, politician (d.1946)
March 6 – Barbara Hanley, first woman to be elected a mayor in Canada (d.1959)
April 18 – Isabel Meighen, wife of Canadian prime minister Arthur Meighen (d. 1985)
May 26 – Charles Edward Bothwell, politician and barrister (d.1967)
June 9 – Robert Kerr, sprinter and Olympic gold medallist (d.1963)

July 16 – Edward Earle, Canadian-born American actor (d. 1972 in the United States)
July 19 – Sarah Ramsland, politician and first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan (d.1964)
October 3 – A. Y. Jackson, painter, one of the Group of Seven (d.1974)
December 18 – Albert James Bradshaw, politician (d.1956)
December 25 – John Stewart McDiarmid, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (d.1965)

February 1 – Maurice Laframboise, lawyer, judge and politician (b.1821)
March 25 – Charles-René-Léonidas d'Irumberry de Salaberry, militia officer (b.1820)
August 7 – Antoine Gérin-Lajoie, poet and novelist (b.1824)
September 15 – Jacques Philippe Lantier, businessman, author and politician (b.1814)
December 9 – Hugh Allan, businessman (b.1810)

Prime Minister Macdonald welcomes Chinese as CPR labourers, but not as settlers^[3]

MP tells House of Commons that land policy in N.W.T. should favour settler over speculator^[4]

Alberta ranchers endure hunger while struggling through multi-day snowstorm^[5]

"To spread the light and sow the seed of Unionism" - Labour newspaper Trades Union Advocate says Toronto labour parade roused union enthusiasm^[6]

Ontario School of Art teaches freehand and model drawing, geometry, perspective, advanced freehand, ornamental design, watercolours, and oil^[7]

^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
^ House of Commons Debates, 4th Parliament, 4th Session; Vol. 1, pg. 15. Accessed 8 October 2019
^ Canada; Parliament; House of Commons, Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada (1882), pg. 1477. Accessed 5 October 2019
^ Speech Delivered by John Charlton, M.P., on the Government Land Policy in the North-West; From Official Debates; House of Commons, Session 1882 (1882). Accessed 5 October 2019
^ Alexander Staveley Hill, From Home to Home; Autumn Wanderings in the Northwest[...] (1885), pgs. 195-212. Accessed 5 October 2019
^ "The Demonstration--Its Success and Teachings" Trades Union Advocate (July 27, 1882), pg. 2, Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 1 September 2024
^ Ontario School of Art (re-opening October 10, 1882), Joseph Brant and family fonds, Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 16 December 2022