1875 in Canada

Events from the year 1875 in Canada.

Incumbents

January 14 – The Halifax Herald is first published.
January 18 – 1875 Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a second consecutive majority.
March 1 – The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto) is founded.
April 5 – The Supreme Court of Canada is created.
April 8 – The Northwest Territories is given a lieutenant-governor separate from that of Manitoba.
May 11 – Philip Carteret Hill becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing William Annand.
June 1 – Construction begins on the Canadian Pacific Railway.
June 30 – The Land Purchase Act comes into effect in Prince Edward Island in order to address the "land question", one of the issues that had prompted the colony to join Confederation.
July 7 – 1875 Quebec election: Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority.
July 20 – 1875 British Columbia election.
September 2 – The Guibord Affair, violence resulting from the 1874 Guibord case, breaks out.

Convent Scandal: During the winter in Montreal, typhoid fever strikes at a convent school. The corpses of the victims are filched by body-snatchers before relatives arrive from America, causing much furor. Eventually the Anatomy Act of Quebec is changed over it.
Louis Riel is granted amnesty with the condition that he be banished for five years.
Jennifer Trout becomes the first woman licensed to practise medicine in Canada, although Emily Stowe has been doing so without a licence in Toronto since 1867.
Grace Lockhart receives from Mount Allison University the first Bachelor of Arts degree awarded to a woman.

February 26 – Edith Jane Miller, concert contralto singer
March 29 – Harry James Barber, politician
June 12 – Sam De Grasse, actor
June 15 – Herman Smith-Johannsen, ski pioneer and supercentenarian
August 2 – Albert Hickman, politician and 17th Prime Minister of Newfoundland
August 21 – Winnifred Eaton, author
August 22 – François Blais, politician
August 26 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, novelist, politician and 15th Governor General of Canada
September 6 – Edith Berkeley, biologist
October 5 – Anne-Marie Huguenin, journalist
November 19 – John Knox Blair, politician, physician and teacher
December 5 – Arthur Currie, World War I general