1872 in Canada

Events from the year 1872 in Canada.

1872
in
Canada

Decades:
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
See also:

Incumbents

Crown

Federal government

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Lieutenant governors

Events

Full date unknown

Births

John McCrae in uniform, circa 1914

Deaths

John Sandfield Macdonald

Historical documents

Federal agriculture minister points to "millions of unsettled acres of prairie" for wheat and "homes of many millions of men from the old world"[3]

Privy Council committee recommends terms to encourage Mennonites to immigrate[4]

Government fails to establish some agreed-to First Nations reserves, while settlers steal the timber[5]

Sandford Fleming reports on difficulties surveying the route of the Canadian Pacific Railway[6]

Indigenous paddlers race each other on the CPR survey expedition[7]

References

  1. "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  2. "Elections Manitoba". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-05-05.
  3. "Report of the Minister of Agriculture [for] 1872," pg. 8 (frame p. 26-8'), Sessional Papers; Volume 6; First Session of the Second Parliament; Session 1873. Accessed 19 February 2023
  4. (Colonial Secretary) no. 51, 1872/03/07, German Menonites (sic) in Russia Wish to Emigrate to Canada Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 24 November 2019
  5. Letter "Copy - No. 79" Return to an Address of the House of Commons, Dated 31st March, 1873, Asking for Copies of All Communications from Indians or Others in Manitoba, with the Government on the Subject of the Dissatisfaction Prevailing among the Chiefs, Headmen, and Indians Treated With in Manitoba, and Adjacent Territory in the Year 1871 (1873), pgs. 3-4. Accessed 15 September 2018
  6. Sandford Fleming, Progress Report on the Canadian Pacific Railway Exploratory Survey (1872), pgs. 15-16. Accessed 15 September 2018
  7. George Monro Grant, Ocean to Ocean: Sandford Fleming's Expedition through Canada in 1872 (1873), pgs. 40-1. Accessed 15 September 2018
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