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1885 in Canada

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1885
in
Canada

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Events from the year 1885 in Canada.

Incumbents

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Crown

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Federal government

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Provincial governments

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Lieutenant governors

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Premiers

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Territorial governments

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Lieutenant governors

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Events

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Full date unknown

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  • Banff Hot Springs Reserve is established. It will be renamed Rocky Mountains Park in 1887 – the first national park in Canada – and then Banff National Park in 1930.
  • Canada outlaws the potlatch ceremony among Northwest Coast tribes. The law, often ignored, is repealed in 1951.

Births

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Gordon Daniel Conant

January to June

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July to December

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Deaths

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Historical documents

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Account of battle at Duck Lake[2]

Account of battle at Cut Knife Hill[3]

Two settler women travel with Chief Big Bear's Cree band after Frog Lake Massacre[4]

Accounts of battle at Batoche[5]

Opposition Leader Edward Blake's speeches on fighting in Northwest [6]

Convicted of treason, Chief Big Bear pleads for relief of his people[7]

Louis Riel's statement at his trial[8]

Report of psychiatric physician who visited Louis Riel in prison[9]

Newspaper report of Louis Riel's execution[10]

Air clears when women vote in Ontario municipal election[11]

J.A. Macdonald says "while the crosses of the Aryan races are successful[, they] will not wholesomely amalgamate with the Africans or the Asiatics"[12]

"A disgrace to humanity" - Citing emancipation of Blacks and Catholics, senator objects to restrictions on Chinese immigrants[13]

Montrealers' resistance to vaccination during smallpox outbreak turns to rioting [14]

Illustration: vaccinating passengers against smallpox on train to U.S.A.[15]

Photo: Sitting Bull, while on visit to Montreal with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show[16]

References

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  1. ^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  2. ^ Transcription of Wm. Laurie article Saskatchewan Herald (April 23, 1885). Accessed 8 October 2019 (See also photo “'Sewing Up the Dead': Preparation of North-West Field Force Casualties for Burial" (April 25, 1885))
  3. ^ Transcription of article Saskatchewan Herald (May 11, 1885). Accessed 8 October 2019
  4. ^ Theresa Gowanlock and Theresa Fulford, Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear(...) (1885). Accessed 8 October 2019
  5. ^ Lewis Redman Ord, Reminiscences of a Bungle (1887), pgs. 29-32 and Moses Bremner's Statement (1886) and Canada; Department of Militia and Defence, Report upon the Suppression of the Rebellion in the North-West Territories[...] (1886), pgs. 27-33. Accessed 8 October 2019
  6. ^ [House of Commons,] "Speech of Hon. E. Blake, M.P., on the Disturbance in the North-West; Ottawa, May 20th, 1885." and House of Commons Debates; Third Session, Fifth Parliament - 48 Vic., "Speech of Hon. E. Blake, M.P., on the Dissturbance in the North-West; Ottawa, July 6th, 1885." Accessed 17 October 2019
  7. ^ William Bleasdell Cameron, Blood Red the Sun (1950), pgs. 196-9. Accessed 8 October 2019
  8. ^ The Queen vs. Louis Riel[...] (1886), pgs. 147-54. Accessed 9 October 2019
  9. ^ Daniel Clark, A Psycho-Medical History of Louis Riel (1887), pgs. 10-13. Accessed 9 October 2019
  10. ^ "Riel Executed; He Dies Without A Speech; A Sane And Beautiful Death" Regina Leader (November 19, 1885), pg. 4. Accessed 9 October 2019
  11. ^ Letitia Youmans, Campaign Echoes: The Autobiography of Letitia Youmans; Second Edition (1893), pgs. 206-9. Accessed 8 October 2019
  12. ^ John A. Macdonald, "The Franchise Bill" (May 4, 1885), Official Report of the Debates of the House of Commons[....], pg. 1589 Accessed 2 July 2023
  13. ^ William J. Almon, "Chinese Immigration; An Explanation" (July 18, 1885), Debates of the Senate of the Dominion of Canada; 1885, pgs. 1411-12 Accessed 2 July 2023
  14. ^ Mde Morel de la Durantaye, A Brief History of the Small Pox Epidemic in Montreal(...) (1886). Accessed 8 October 2019
  15. ^ James Marvin, "Canada - the recent smallpox epidemic in Montreal - vaccinating American-bound passengers on a train[....]" Accessed 25 December 2020 https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/oslerprints/search-results.php?s=Vaccination (click on "The recent smallpox epidemic" thumbnail)
  16. ^ William Notman & Son, "Sitting Bull" (1885), McCord Museum. Accessed 18 May 2022