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1873 in Canada

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1873
in
Canada

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Events from the year 1873 in Canada.

Incumbents

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Crown

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Federal government

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Provincial governments

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Lieutenant governors

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Premiers

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Territorial governments

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Lieutenant governors

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Events

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January to June 1873

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July to December

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Sport

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Smallpox

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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.[2]

Births

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January to June

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J. E. H. MacDonald

July to December

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Full date unknown

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Deaths

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James William Johnston

Historical documents

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Non-confidence moved in House of Commons over Government accepting election funding from group hoping to build CPR[4]

Why the Governor General did not dismiss Prime Minister Macdonald over the Pacific Scandal[5]

Metis leader Ambroise Lepine sentenced to death for the murder of Thomas Scott in 1870 at Red River[6]

House of Commons speeches on issues with Indigenous people in the Northwest Territories[7]

British Columbia Indian superintendent reports on the economic activity of Indigenous people[8]

References

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  1. ^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  2. ^ Rolleston, J. D. (1 December 1933). "The Smallpox Pandemic of 1870–1874: President's Address". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 27 (2): 177–192. doi:10.1177/003591573302700245. ISSN 0035-9157.
  3. ^ Elizabeth Gillan Muir; Marilyn Färdig Whiteley (1995). Changing Roles of Women Within the Christian Church in Canada. University of Toronto Press. pp. 340–. ISBN 978-0-8020-7623-6.
  4. ^ "House of Commons; Wednesday, April 2, 1873" House of Commons Debates; First Session – Second Parliament, pg. 179. Accessed 24 September 2018
  5. ^ 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
  6. ^ "Sentence" Preliminary Investigation and Trial of Ambroise D. Lepine for the Murder of Thomas Scott (1874), pgs. 124-7. Accessed 15 September 2018
  7. ^ 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
  8. ^ "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