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September 1 – L. C. Owen becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing James Pope. September 23 – The Canadian Labour Union is founded. November – 1873 Newfoundland general election. November 5 – Pacific Scandal: the House of Commons of Canada passes a vote of no confidence in Sir John A. Macdonald's government.
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January 13, 1873 79-80 Stroke Asa Allworth Burnham Conservative Ontario (Ontario) May 10, 1873 65 James Leslie Conservative Quebec : December 6, 1873 [1] 87 William Steeves Liberal New Brunswick (New Brunswick) December 9, 1873 59 Oliver Blake Liberal Ontario (Ontario) December 10, 1873 71 John Locke Liberal Nova Scotia (Nova Scotia) December ...
Sir John Alexander Macdonald [a] GCB PC QC (10 or 11 January 1815 [b] – 6 June 1891) was the first prime minister of Canada, serving from 1867 to 1873 and from 1878 until his death in 1891. He was the dominant figure of Canadian Confederation , and had a political career that spanned almost half a century.
February 10 – Walter Lea, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1936) April 14 – Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, 16th Governor General of Canada (d.1957) June 16 – Arthur Meighen, politician and 9th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1960)
Two prime ministers have died in office: John A. Macdonald (1867–1873, 1878–1891), and John Thompson (1892–1894), both of natural causes. All others have resigned, either after losing an election or upon retirement.
So many Loyalists arrived on the shores of the St. John River that a separate colony—New Brunswick—was created in 1784; [102] followed in 1791 by the division of Quebec into the largely French-speaking Lower Canada (French Canada) along the St. Lawrence River and the Gaspé Peninsula and an anglophone Loyalist Upper Canada, with its capital ...
This is a list of electoral districts or ridings in Canada for the 1874 Canadian federal election. New seats were added in 1873 when Prince Edward Island became a province. Electoral districts are constituencies that elect members of Parliament in Canada's House of Commons every election.