1872 in Canada

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1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• March 14 - H.H. Clarke becomes Premier of Manitoba
• March 31 - The first issues of the Toronto Mail, that would later be merged into the Globe and Mail is published
• May 15 - In the first nationwide labour protest marchers across the land press for the nine-hour workday.
• June 25 - Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Earl of Dufferin becomes Governor General of Canada
• July 20 - October 12 - In the 1872 Canadian election John A. Macdonald's Conservatives are reelected.
• October 15 - The Canadian Pacific Railway Company is formed
• October 31 - Oliver Mowat becomes Premier of Ontario replaces the retiring Edward Blake
• December 23 - Amor De Cosmos becomes Premier of British Columbia
• The Dominion Lands Act provides land to settlers for only a small fee
• The Manitoba Free Press is first published
• G.E. King becomes premier of New Brunswick
• Simpson's founded
• A British Columbia law bans all Asian and First Nations peoples from voting.

• October 17 - Samuel Wickett, economist
• November 30 - John McCrae, poet