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Pipes was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia. He was a politician in Nova Scotia. He was also the 6th Premier of Nova Scotia.
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I was born.
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A postage stamp is a small piece of paper that is purchased and displayed on an item of mail as evidence of payment of postage.
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My baby sister Madeline is born. I finally have a sibling, I'm so happy. She is really cute. I already love her.
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Beginning of a fire which burned 11,000 houses in Montreal.
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Also known as the Elgin-Marcy Treaty, was a trade treaty between the United Province of Canada and the United States.It covered raw materials and was in effect from 1854 to 1865. It represented a move toward free trade, and was opposed by protectionist elements in the United States, who joined with Americans angry at apparent British support for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, ended it in 1866.
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My neighbour had a baby. Its a boy. His name is Robert Borden.
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A bridge over the Niagara river near Niagara Falls is completed.The Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge is the world's first working railway suspension bridge. It spanned 825 feet (251 m) and stood 2.5 miles (4.0 km) downstream of Niagara Falls from 1855 to 1897. Connecting Niagara Falls, Ontario to Niagara Falls, New York.
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My uncle's son.
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The bridge over Desjardins canal, near Hamilton, Canada West, collapses under a Great Western Railway Passanger train. About 60 people died.
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Ottawa, the fourth largest city in the country.Queen Victoria was asked to choose a common capital for the Province of Canada, and she chose Ottawa.
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The Frontenac County Court House in Kingston, Ontario, Canada is the Courthouse for Frontenac County, Ontario.
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The British Columbia Provincial Police (BCPP) is the policing body for the Canadian province of British Columbia.
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Jacob de Witt, heer van Manezee, Melissant and Comstryen[1] (born 7 February 1589 in Dordrecht, he was a burgomaster of Dordrecht and the son of a timber merchant. He was also a younger brother of Andries de Witt and the father of Johan and Cornelis de Witt.
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Abraham Shadd is elected to the town council in Raleigh, Ontario and becomes the first black elected to public office.
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The Queen's Plate is Canada's oldest thoroughbred horse race, having in 1860. It is run at a distance of 1¼ miles for a maximum of 17 three-year-old thoroughbred horses foaled in Canada.
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Victoria Bridge is a bridge over the St. Lawrence River, linking Montreal, Quebec, to the south shore city of Saint-Lambert.
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Allan Napier MacNab, businessman, soldier, lawyer and politian. 1st Baronet (19 February 1798 – 8 August 1862) was a Canadian political leader and Premier of the Province of Canada before Canadian Confederation (1854–1856) died.
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The first student is accpeted in Mount Allison University.
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James FitzGibbon, British colonel who served in Canada for 10 years.
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A train of newly arrived immigrants fails to stop at the open swing span near Beloeil, Canada East. The Grand Trunck Railway train runs into the Richelieu River, killing 99.
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Charlottetown Conference, noted as the first step towards Confederation from September 1 to September 9.
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The Legislature of the province of Canada passes a motion in favour of confederation.
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Charles Richard Ogden was a Joint Premier of the Province of Canada for Canada East from 1842 with William Henry Draper PM for Canada West. Odgen was a member of the Château Clique. Ogden was a lawyer, politician, and public servant from Canada East. Born in Quebec City, he was one of eleven sons of Isaac Ogden, a loyalist and puisne judge of the Court of King’s Bench at Montreal, and Sarah Hanson.
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The New Brunswick general election of 1866 is held in May and June to elect 41 members to the 21st New Brunswick Legislative Assembly.
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John A MacDonald marries his second wife Susan Agnes Bernard.
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Born in 1812 in Glengarry County, Upper Canada.
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Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario established.
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Father of Confederation Thomas D'Arcy McGee is assassinated in Ottawa by Irish Fenians. Thomas D'Arcy McGee is an Irish Nationalist, Catholic spokesman, and journalist.
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Newfoundland rejects Confederation with Canada.
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The Canadian Illustrated News was a weekly Canadian illustrated magazine published in Montreal from 1869 to 1883. It was published by George Desbarats.
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The 2nd New Brunswick general election held June and July 1870, to elect 41 members to the 22nd New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, the governing house of the province of New Brunswick, Canada. The election was held before the adoption of party labels, and was the first since New Brunswick joined the Canadian Confederation in 1867.
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Alfred Boyd was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He is usually considered to have been the first Premier of Manitoba.but he was not recognized by that title at the time and was not the real leader of the government. He is more correctly referred to as the first Provincial Secretary of Manitoba.
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The first Canadian census finds the population to be 3,689,257.
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New Brunswick abandons separate schools.
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John Sandfield Macdonald, Premier of Ontario died.John Sandfield Macdonald, QC was the first Premier of the province of Ontario, one of the four founding provinces created at the confederation of Canada in 1867. He served as both premier and Attorney-General of Ontario from July 16, 1867, to December 20, 1871.
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A Grand Trunk Railway express passenger train from Toronto to Montreal derails near Shannonville, Ontario, killing 34.
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Sixty are killed in a coal mine explosion in Nova Scotia
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The Cypress Hills massacre is a mass murder that occurred on June 2, 1873, in the Cypress Hills region of Battle Creek, North-West Territories.
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George Walkem becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Amor De Cosmos. Born in Newry, Ireland, Walkem moved to then Colony of British Columbia in 1862 and served as a member of the appointed Legislative Council of British Columbia from 1864 to 1870 and was a supporter of Canadian confederation.
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The North-West Mounted Police is a Canadian police force.
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Philip Carteret Hill becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing William Annand. He was born in Halifax, he was mayor of Halifax from 1861 to 1864 before entering provincial politics as a supporter of Canadian confederation in 1867 serving as Provincial Secretary in the Conservative cabinet of Hiram Blanchard but lost his seat in the fall 1867 election that defeated the government.
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Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority. Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville was born on May 4th 1822 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He twice served as the third Premier of Quebec.
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Andrew Elliott becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing George Walkem. Andrew Elliot was born on June 22, 1829.
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Lemuel Cambridge Owen's Conservatives wins a second consecutive majority. Lemuel Cambridge Owen was born on Nov.1, 1822, in Charlottetown to Thomas Owen, who was Postmaster General for Prince Edward Island for eighteen years, serving until his death in 1860.
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When a spark fell into a bundle of hay in Henry Fair Weathers storehouse in the York Point Slip area. Nine hours later the fire had destroyed over 80 hectares (200 acres) and 1,612 structures including eight churches, six banks, fourteen hotels, eleven schooners and four wood boats. The fire had killed approximately 20 people, and injuring many more.
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Treaty 7 is an agreement between Queen Victoria and several mainly Blackfoot First Nations tribes in what is today the southern portion of Alberta. It was concluded today. The agreement is signed at the Blackfoot Crossing of the Bow River, at the present-day Siksika Nation reserve, approximately 100 km east of Calgary. Chief Crowfoot is one of the signatories to Treaty 7.
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In the Quebec election, Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau's Conservatives win a minority. Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau was born on November 9, 1840, born in Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, is a French-Canadian lawyer and politician.
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John Norquay becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Robert A. Davis. John Norquay born on May 8, 1841. He was born near St. Andrews, Manitoba.
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The Parliament of Canada (French: Parlement du Canada) is the federal legislative branch of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in the national capital, Ottawa, Ontario.
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William Wilfred Sullivan becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Sir Louis Davies. William Wilfred Sullivan was born on December 6, 1839 in Hope River, Prince Edward Island.
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William Henry Pope was a Canadian lawyer, politician, judge and one of the Fathers of Confederation. He was born on May 29, 1825, in Bedeque, Prince Edward Island.
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The Black Donnellys is the common nickname of the Donnelly family who emigrated from County Tipperary, Ireland, to Canada in about 1845–1846, and who participated in a notorious feud in Biddulph Township in Middlesex County, Ontario, which culminated in a massacre in which five family members were killed. Despite eyewitness testimony,
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The national anthem of Canada. The song is originally commissioned by Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Théodore Robitaille for the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony; Calixa Lavallée wrote the music as a setting of a French Canadian patriotic poem composed by poet and judge Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier.
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