Events from the year 1874 in Canada.

1874
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Canada

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  • Anabaptists (Russian Mennonites) start to arrive in Manitoba from various Russian colonies arriving in Canada in August.
  • The federal Liberal government grants provisional boundaries to Ontario that extend the province to the north and west. These provisional boundaries will not be recognized by the federal Conservatives when they return to power.
  • Newfoundland election

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Robert W. Service, c.1905

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William Lyon Mackenzie King

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With imperial troops withdrawn from most of Canada, major general has recommendations for instruction of militia (Note: racial stereotypes)[3]

Sam Steele describes North-West Mounted Police horses stampeding at the start of the March West[4]

References edit

  1. ^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  3. ^ E. Selby Smyth, Annual Report of the State of the Militia for 1874 pgs. viii-x. Accessed 6 September 2021
  4. ^ Samuel Benfield Steele, Forty Years in Canada: Reminiscences of the Great North-West (1914), pgs. 63-4. Accessed 16 September 2018