1877 in Canada
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See Also: 1876 in Canada, other events of 1877, 1878 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.
Events
- February 28 - University of Manitoba founded
- September 22 - Treaty No. 7 signed
- Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier appointed Minister of Agriculture and called to the Senate of Canada
- Manzo Nagano was the first official Japanese immigrant into Canada
- Nez Perce War. Blackfoot tribes cedes land to the Dominion of Canada.
- Refugee Lakota enter Canada near the end of the Great Sioux War
- Sir Wilfrid Laurier is appointed Canadian Minister of Inland Revenue
- The provincial legislature creates the University of Manitoba, the oldest University in western Canada.
Births
- January 5 - Edgar N. Rhodes, Premier of Nova Scotia
- August 5 - Tom Thomson, artists
- December 15 - John Thomas Haig, Manitoba politician
- December 18 - James Allison Glen, politician