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Dominion of Canada comes into being: Sir John A. Macdonald sworn in as prime minister.Confederation: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Ontario form the Dominion of Canada. John A. Macdonald becomes the first prime minister.
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Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the fathers of Confederation and an outspoken enemy of the Fenians, becomes Canada's first assassination victim at the hands of a Fenian
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Canadian Parliament agrees to buy Rupert's Land - All the Hudson's Bay Company territory.
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Alexander Graham Bell discloses the invention of the telephone to his father at the family home on the outskirts of Brantford, Ontario.
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Riel is hanged in Regina.
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John A. Macdonald dies age 76.
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Lord Stanley, the governor general, donates the Stanley Cup as a hockey trophy
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The first Grey Cup game; the University of Toronto football team defeats Toronto Parkdale. A trophy has been donated by the governor general, Earl Grey
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Royal Canadian Navy formed
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Germany declares war on Russia
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John McCrae writes "In Flanders' Fields."
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First use of poison gas in WW1, by Germany at Bolimow in Poland on the Eastern Front
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Canadians capture Vimy Ridge.
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A French munitions ship explodes in Halifax harbor, flattening the city, killing 1 600, and injuring 9 000. French munitions vessel Mont Blanc explodes in Halifax Harbour killing almost 1600 people.
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Wayne Gretzky plays the last game in a Canadian arena at the Corel Centre, in Nakata, Ontario. After twenty years in the National Hockey League with Edmonton Oilers, Los Angeles Kings, St. Louis Blues, and New York Rangers, the Great One announced his retirement. His final game in the NHL was three days later at Madison Square Garden in New York.
