1877 in Canada

Events from the year 1877 in Canada.

Incumbents

February 28 – University of Manitoba founded.
June 20 – The Great Fire of Saint John, New Brunswick had destroyed over 80 hectares and 1,612 structures including eight churches, six banks, fourteen hotels, eleven schooners and four wood boats.
September 22 – Treaty 7 signed.

January 5 – Edgar Nelson Rhodes, politician, Minister and Premier of Nova Scotia
March 25 – Walter Little, politician
May 23 – Fred Wellington Bowen, politician
July 23 – Aimé Boucher, politician and notary
August 5 – Tom Thomson, artist
August 29 – George Arthur Brethen, politician
October 16 – H. H. Couzens, electrical engineer
November 19 – John Alexander Macdonald Armstrong, politician
December 15 – John Thomas Haig, politician
December 18 – James Allison Glen, politician, Minister and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada
December 26 – Aldéric-Joseph Benoit, politician

"Great irregularities" - House of Commons committee finds inefficiency, lethargy and political influence rife in federal civil service
U.S. government report on commerce in the Province of Ontario
Archbishop Taché backs denominational schools in Manitoba
Editorial on the continual exodus of Quebeckers to the U.S.A.
Information pamphlet on a British agricultural colonization scheme for Western Canada
Lecturer says the rights and equality of women are necessary to society
Sitting Bull rejects the offer of a pardon and return to the U.S.A.