1860-1880

Emily Stowe, the first woman doctor in Canada, begins to practice medicine in Toronto

first female doc in canada

ontario joins confederation

The British North America Act is passed by Britain's Parliament, providing for Canada's Confederation.

louis riel and the metis occupy lowewr fort garry. the red river rebellion has begun

louis riel and the metis rebel on the red river

riel establishes alegal proisional government

The Métis of Red River rebel, under Louis Riel, after their region is purchased by Canada from Hudson's Bay Company.

the future site of Qubec city used
the word Canada to refer to both the settlement
of standacona and the land surrounding it.

the t. eaton store opened in taronto.

Canadian Parliament agrees to buy Rupert's Land - All the Hudson's Bay Company territory.

the first documented football game
was in toronto

Thomas Scott executed on orders of Riel.

winnipeg became the capital of manitoba

it was fought on the prairies between the cree and blackfoot
hunting territories

b.c. joins confederation

the Mary Celest was empty on the Atlantic ocean

alexander mackenzie is the prime minister

American whisky traders kill fifty-six Assiniboine in the Cypress Hills of the southern Prairies. The North-West Mounted Police (later the RCMP) is formed to keep order in the new Canadian territories.

was one of the famous five ;notabal suffragist,
politicianand writer.

north-west mounted police formed to keep new teritoies under control

The Pacific Scandal erupts: Prime Minister Macdonald accused of corruption in negotiations over a transcontinental railway

PEI joins confederation

winnipeg was incorported as a city

Alexander Graham Bell discloses the invention of the telephone to his father at the family home on the outskirts of Brantford, Ontario.

alexander graham bell display his new invention the telephone to his family

Anabaptists (Russian Mennonites) start to arrive in Manitoba from various Russian colonies.

riel is elected to the house of commons but cannot take the seat

William D. Lawrence, the biggest wooden ship ever built in the Maritimes, launched at Maitland, N.S

The Mounties leave Fort Dufferin on their march west to wipe out the whisky trade.

Grace Lockhart receives from Mount Allison University the first Bachelor of Arts degree awarded to a woman.

first organized indoor hockey game

riel is granted ammnesty with the condition that he be banished for five years

the supreme court of canada is established

became the femal to practic medicine in canada.

The Intercolonial Railway, growing out of the Halifax-Truro line, links central Canada and the Maritimes

The first intelligible telephone call between two buildings is made groom Brantford, Ont,. To Mount Pleasant, two miles away.

The world's first long-distance phone call connects the Bell residence with a shoe and boot store in nearby Paris, Ontario

The Toronto Women's Literary Club is founded as a front for the suffrage movement

first demonstrated telephone was in boston

hockey's rules were published in the montreal gazett

Treaty No.7 cedes the last big section of Prairie land to the government of Canada.

anti-chinese seniment in B.C. reaches a high piont as the government ban chinese workers from public

sir john a. macdonald re-elected prime minister

Macdonald introduces protective tariffs, a transcontinental railway, and immigration to the west in his National Policy

Britain transfer the Arctic, which it claims to own, to Canada, completing Canada's modern boundaries - except for Newfoundland and Labrador

she preformed the first preformance of "o canada"