Events from the year 1871 in Canada .
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Provincial governments
Canada provinces 1871–1873
July to December
July 15 – Phoebe Campbell murders her husband with an axe. She is hanged the next year.
July 20 – British Columbia joins Confederation.
July 25 – Treaty 1 , the first of a number of treaties with western Canada's First Nations, is signed
August 17 – Treaty 2 is signed
November 11 – The last of the British Army leaves Canada
November 13 – John McCreight becomes the first premier of British Columbia
December 14 – Marc-Amable Girard becomes the first Franco-Manitoban of premier of Manitoba, replacing Alfred Boyd
December 20 – Edward Blake becomes premier of Ontario, replacing J. S. Macdonald.
George Stewart Henry January 30 – Wilfred Lucas , actor, film director and screenwriter (d.1940 )
May 14 – Walter Stanley Monroe , businessman, politician and Prime Minister of Newfoundland (d.1952 )
July 16 – George Stewart Henry , politician and 10th Premier of Ontario (d.1958 )
July 25 – Richard Ernest William Turner , soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (d.1961 )
August 4 – Robert Hamilton Butts , politician (d.1943 )
September 8 – Samuel McLaughlin , businessman and philanthropist (d.1972 )
September 9 – Hugh Robson , politician and judge
October 31 – Alexander Stirling MacMillan , businessman, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1955 )
December 2 – Stanislas Blanchard , politician (d.1949 )
December 13 – Emily Carr , artist and writer (d.1945 )
Modeste Demers January 29 – Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé , lawyer, writer, fifth and last seigneur of Saint-Jean-Port-Joli (L'Islet County) (b.1786 )
January 31 – John Ross , lawyer, politician, and businessman. (b. 1818 )
February 20 – Paul Kane , artist (b.1810 )
March 11 – John Heckman , political figure (b.1785 )
July 28 – Modeste Demers , missionary (b.1809 )
September 23 – Louis-Joseph Papineau , lawyer, politician and reformist (b.1786 )
November 18 – Enos Collins , seaman, merchant, financier, and legislator (b.1774 )
Editorial says Confederation is British Columbia 's chance to remake itself[3]
Canada should refuse to permanently share its inshore fishery with U.S.A.[4]
Manitoba Lieutenant Governor Archibald agrees to release four Indigenous prisoners before negotiating Treaty 1 [5]
Archibald urges Indigenous people to "adopt the habits of the whites " (farming) for more comfort and safety from famine and sickness[6]
Commissioner Simpson says in Manitoba's "immense cultivable acres ," large reserves are not allowed, and treaty terms are "a present"[7]
Treaty terms with large reserves are demanded by Indigenous leaders, with one calling himself "the lawful owner " of his people's land[8]
Indigenous leaders continue to make "extravagant demands" and Commissioner Simpson says take it or leave it, settlers are coming[9]
Fenian raid on Manitoba stopped at the border[10]
Manitoba Lieutenant Governor thanks residents for rising to resist the Fenian invasion[11]
"The Great Duty of the Hour" The Daily British Colonist and Victoria Chronicle, Vol. 25, No. 117 (April 28, 1871), pg. 2. Accessed 11 September 2018Joseph Pope, Memoirs of the Right Honourable Sir John Alexander Macdonald, G.C.B., First Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada (1894), pgs. 90-1 Accessed 11 September 2018 Adams George Archibald, Return to an Address of the House of Commons...for Copies of All Correspondence with Lieut.-Governor A.G. Archibald, of Manitoba...Regarding the Fenian Invasion of Manitoba, pgs. 4–5 Accessed 11 September 2018 House of Commons, Report of the Select Committee on the Causes of the Difficulties in the North-West Territory in 1869–70 (1874), pgs. 147-9 Accessed 11 September 2018 
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