1877 in Canada

Events from the year 1877 in Canada.

Incumbents

February 28 – University of Manitoba founded.
June 20 – The Great Fire of Saint John, New Brunswick had destroyed over 80 hectares (200 acres) and 1,612 structures including eight churches, six banks, fourteen hotels, eleven schooners and four wood boats.
September 22 – Treaty 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
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.

January 5 – Edgar Nelson Rhodes, politician, Minister and Premier of Nova Scotia (died 1942)
March 25 – Walter Little, politician (died 1961)
May 23 – Fred Wellington Bowen, politician (died 1949)
July 23 – Aimé Boucher, politician and notary (died 1946)
August 5 – Tom Thomson, artist (died 1917)
August 29 – George Arthur Brethen, politician (died 1968)
October 16 – H. H. Couzens, electrical engineer (died 1944)
November 19 – John Alexander Macdonald Armstrong, politician (died 1926)
December 15 – John Thomas Haig, politician (died 1962)
December 18 – James Allison Glen, politician, Minister and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (died 1950)
December 26 – Aldéric-Joseph Benoit, politician (died 1968)

"Great irregularities" - House of Commons committee finds inefficiency, lethargy and political influence rife in federal civil service

U.S. government report on commerce in the Province of Ontario

Editorial on the continual exodus of Quebeckers to the U.S.A.

Information pamphlet on a British agricultural colonization scheme for Western Canada

Lecturer says the rights and equality of women are necessary to society

Sitting Bull rejects the offer of a pardon and return to the U.S.A.