1880 in Canada

Events from the year 1880 in Canada.

Incumbents

February 4 – Five members of the Donnelly family are killed near Lucan, Ontario.
February 14 – The wife of the governor general, The Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne, is seriously injured when the viceregal sleigh overturns on a Rudolph Ottawa street.
March 25 – George Brown fatally shot by a disgruntled employee.
May 4 – Edward Blake becomes the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
June 24 – "O Canada" first performed.
July 16 – The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts is established.
October 9 – The United Kingdom gives Canada control of the Arctic Archipelago.

Emily Stowe becomes the first woman doctor to practise medicine in Canada
Sanford Fleming becomes chancellor of Queen's University
Bell Canada founded
Canadian Pacific Railway. British-backed Canadian firm, headed by US railroad building genius gets the deal: $25 million,, already completed sections free, all under-construction sections finished free, 20 year monopoly as only railway and 20-year control over rate-setting.
The Varsity, created.

January 17 – Mack Sennett, actor, producer, screenwriter and film director
January 18 – Richard Squires, politician and Prime Minister of Newfoundland
March 22 – Allison Dysart, politician, lawyer, judge and 21st Premier of New Brunswick
April 13 – Charles Christie, motion picture studio owner
August 6 – Leland Payson Bancroft, politician
August 12 – Jacob Penner, politician
August 14 – Percival Molson, athlete and soldier
August 29 – Marie-Louise Meilleur, supercentenarian, the oldest validated Canadian ever
October 12 – Healey Willan, organist and composer
October 27 – Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, businessman, politician and Governor General of Canada

January 19 – James Westcott, American-born United States Senator from Florida from 1845 till 1849
February 6 – Edward Barron Chandler, politician
May 9 – George Brown, journalist, politician and one of the Fathers of the Confederation
June 12 – William Evan Price, businessman and politician
October 8 – Caleb Hopkins, farmer and politician
October 18 – Luc-Hyacinthe Masson, physician, businessman and politician
December 8 – Charles Fisher, politician and 1st Premier of the Colony of New Brunswick
December 24 – David Christie, politician

Statute creates Canadian Pacific Railway as government-supported private company for benefit of B.C. and N.W.T.
Chief Ocean Man and another Nakoda (Stoney) describe attack on their people by Gros Ventre and Mandan from U.S. side of border
British order-in-council transfers Arctic islands to Dominion of Canada
Using words like "terrible evil" and "usurpation," Anti-Chinese Association petitions British Columbia legislature to stop Chinese immigration
Editorial on complaints of French-Canadians
Walt Whitman calls Thousand Islands most beautiful place on Earth
To avoid bankruptcy caused by westward expansion, Canada must declare independence
Britain gifts part of to U.S. for saving that Arctic exploration ship
Painting: Trapper approaches animal caught in leghold trap