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April 13 – John Christian Schultz, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1840) May 4 – Timothy Anglin, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (b.1822) June 7 – Wyatt Eaton, painter (b.1849) June 10 – Donald Alexander Macdonald, politician (b.1817) June 19 – John Beverley Robinson, politician (b.1821)
June 21 – Treaty No. 8 cedes 840,000 km 2 to the Crown, located in British Columbia and the North-West Territories' districts of Alberta, Athabasca and Mackenzie. July 5 – In Brandon, Manitoba , housemaid Hilda Blake shoots her mistress twice; the first shot misses, but the second bullet pierces the mistress's right lung.
The Act split the colony into two. The eastern portion of Quebec became the Province of Lower Canada, and the western portion of Quebec (including Toronto) became the Province of Upper Canada. A provisional Upper Canada government was set up in Newark (today's Niagara-on-the-Lake) in 1791.
January 6 – Tim Buck, politician and long-time leader of the Communist Party of Canada (d.1973) January 26 – Wilder Penfield, neurosurgeon (d.1976) April 1 – Harry Nixon, politician and 13th Premier of Ontario (d.1961) May 3 – Thomas John Bentley, politician (d.1983) June 13 – Hervé-Edgar Brunelle, politician and lawyer (d.1950)
Twenty-three people have served as Prime Minister of Canada since the office came into existence in 1867. Nineteen of Canada's prime ministers have been born in Canada. Four of Canada's prime ministers have been born outside Canada: John A. Macdonald, Alexander Mackenzie, Mackenzie Bowell, and John Turner.
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Sum Ying Fung (née Eng, Chinese: 吴如英, 27 January 1899 – 6 December 2011), was a Chinese Canadian supercentenarian who was the oldest person in Canada in 2011. Sum Ying Eng was born in Wing On Village, Yanping, China in 1899. [36] In 1926, she married Chong Lim Fung, who had been working in Canada since 1911.
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