See also:
1879 in Canada,
other events of 1880,
1881 in Canada and the
Timeline of Canadian history.
Events
- 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 an Ottawa street.
- March 6 - The Royal Academy for the Arts is founded
- 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
- October 9 - The United Kingdom gives Canada control of the Arctic islands.
- 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 (CPR). British-backed Canadian firm, headed by US railroad building genius (Sir William Cornelius Van Horne) gets the deal: $25 million, 25 million acres (100,000 km²), already completed sections free, all under-construction sections finished free, 20 year monopoly as only railroad and 20 year control over rate-setting.
Arts
- New books
- Newspapers
Births
Deaths
