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Dominion of Canada comes into being: Sir John A. Macdonald sworn in as prime minister.
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Louis Riel and Métis occupy Lower Fort Garry. The red River Rebellion has begun.
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British Columbia joins Confederation
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Prime Minister Sir John Macdonald resigns as a result of scandal over the partial financing of the Conservative election campaign by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company
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Prince Edward Island joins Confederation
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Riel is elected to the House of Commons but cannot take the seat
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Bell's first functioning telephone is demonstrated in Boston
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Scottish-born Alexander Graham Bell, who has been working on the invention of the telephone since 1874, makes the world's first long-distance call, from Brantford to Paris, Ontario
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The provincial legislature creates the University of Manitoba, the oldest University in western Canada.
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The first organized games of hockey, using a flat puck, are played by McGill University students in Montreal. Before this, hockey-like games have been played on ice with a ball.
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Riel is hanged in Regina
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The City of Toronto establishes the first Children's Aid Society in Canada
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Sir Adam Beck creates the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, the largest such company in Canada
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Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery, is published. In the next ninety years the book sells more than a million copies, is made into a television movie, and becomes a popular musical.
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A branch of the Royal Mint is established in Ottawa, making for the first time coins in Canada.
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Canada joins the United Nations
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O Canada is officially adopted as Canada's national anthem
