1873 in Canada

In the opening speech to the 1872-1873 Epidemiological Society conference, Inspector-General Robert Lawson drew attention to the recent prevalence of haemorrhagic forms of smallpox in both the United States and Canada, among other countries. During the smallpox pandemic of 1870-1874, the disease had been carried to America by emigrants, where it had already infected thousands, and killed hundreds in eastern cities such as Boston and New York.<ref name="RSM_Rolleston_19331201">Template:Cite journal</ref>

BirthsEdit

January to JuneEdit

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J. E. H. MacDonald

January 10 – George Orton, middle-distance runner and Olympic gold medallist, first Canadian to win an Olympic medal (d.1958)
January 19 – Thomas Dufferin Pattullo, politician and 22nd Premier of British Columbia (d.1956)
February 4 – Étienne Desmarteau, athlete and Olympic gold medallist (d.1905)
April 9 – Walter Edward Foster, businessman, politician and 16th Premier of New Brunswick (d.1947)
April 10 – George Black, politician (d.1965)
May 12 – J. E. H. MacDonald, artist of the Group of Seven (d.1932)
May 17 – Albert Edward Matthews, 16th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1949)

July to DecemberEdit

August 27 – Maud Allan, actor, dancer and choreographer (d.1956)
September 20 – Sidney Olcott, film producer, director, actor and screenwriter (d.1949)
October 20 (or 29) – Nellie McClung, feminist, politician and social activist (d.1951)<ref name="MuirWhiteley1995">Template:Cite book</ref>
November 21 – Aimé Bénard, politician (d.1938)
December 8 – John Duncan MacLean, teacher, physician, politician and Premier of British Columbia (d.1948)
December 9 – George Blewett, academic and philosopher (d.1912)

Full date unknownEdit

Margaret C. MacDonald, nurse (d.1948)

DeathsEdit

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James William Johnston

May 15 – William James Anderson, physician, amateur geologist and historian (b.1812)
May 20 – George-Étienne Cartier, politician and statesman (b.1814)
May 28 – Thomas Brown Anderson, merchant, banker and politician (b.1796)
June 1 – Joseph Howe, Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1804)
June 28 – Charles Connell, politician (b.1810)
November 21 – James William Johnston, lawyer, politician, and judge (b.1792)
December 9 – William Steeves, politician (b.1814)

Historical documentsEdit

Non-confidence moved in House of Commons over Government accepting election funding from group hoping to build CPR<ref>"House of Commons; Wednesday, April 2, 1873" House of Commons Debates; First Session – Second Parliament, pg. 179. Accessed 24 September 2018</ref>

Why the Governor General did not dismiss Prime Minister Macdonald over the Pacific Scandal<ref>Governor General Lord Dufferin, Message: Papers Relative to the Prorogation of Parliament on the 13th Day of August 1873 (1873), especially pg. 17 and after. Accessed 15 September 2018</ref>

Metis leader Ambroise Lepine sentenced to death for the murder of Thomas Scott in 1870 at Red River<ref>"Sentence" Preliminary Investigation and Trial of Ambroise D. Lepine for the Murder of Thomas Scott (1874), pgs. 124-7. Accessed 15 September 2018</ref>

House of Commons speeches on issues with Indigenous people in the Northwest Territories<ref>Robert Cunningham; Donald Alexander Smith, Speeches on the Indian Difficulties in the North-West, Delivered(...)in the House of Commons, April 1st, 1873 (1873). Accessed 15 September 2018</ref>

British Columbia Indian superintendent reports on the economic activity of Indigenous people<ref>"Abstract of the Report of J.W. Powell,(...)1873" Annual Report on Indian Affairs, for Year Ending 30th June, 1872, pgs. 7–10. Accessed 19 September 2018</ref>

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