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1874 in Canada

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1874
in
Canada

Decades:
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Events from the year 1874 in Canada.

Incumbents

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Crown

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Federal government

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Provincial governments

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Lieutenant governors

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Premiers

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Territorial governments

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Lieutenant governors

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Events

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Full date unknown

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  • Anabaptists (Russian Mennonites) start to arrive in Manitoba from various Russian colonies arriving in Canada in August.
  • The federal Liberal government grants provisional boundaries to Ontario that extend the province to the north and west. These provisional boundaries will not be recognized by the federal Conservatives when they return to power.
  • Newfoundland election

Births

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Robert W. Service, c.1905

January to June

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July to December

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William Lyon Mackenzie King

Deaths

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Historical documents

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With imperial troops withdrawn from most of Canada, major general has recommendations for instruction of militia (Note: racial stereotypes)[3]

Sam Steele describes North-West Mounted Police horses stampeding at the start of the March West[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  3. ^ E. Selby Smyth, Annual Report of the State of the Militia for 1874 pgs. viii-x. Accessed 6 September 2021
  4. ^ Samuel Benfield Steele, Forty Years in Canada: Reminiscences of the Great North-West (1914), pgs. 63-4. Accessed 16 September 2018