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The act provides for the establishment of the province Manitoba when Rupert's Land is transferred to Canada. June–July – The 1870 New Brunswick election; July 15 – The British Privy Council's Rupert's Land and North-Western Territory Order transfers those territories to Canada, and Manitoba and the North-West Territories are established.
The Literary Review of Canada unveiled its list of the 100 most important Canadian books ever published in the January/February 2006 and March 2006 issues. The list ran in chronological order, starting with Jacques Cartier 's Bref récit et succincte narration de la navigation faite en MDXXXV et MDXXXVI , published in 1545, and ending with Jane ...
Pages in category "1870s in Canada" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
In Defence of Canada: Peacemaking and Deterrence (U of Toronto Press, 1972). English, John. The Worldly Years: The Life of Lester Pearson, Volume II: 1949–1972 (Vintage Books Canada, 1993). Holmes, John W. The Shaping of Peace: Canada and the Search for World Order 1943–1957 (2 vol. U of Toronto Press, 1979–82). Pearson, Geoffrey.
The Fenian raids were a series of incursions carried out by the Fenian Brotherhood, an Irish republican organization based in the United States, on military fortifications, customs posts and other targets in Canada (then part of British North America) in 1866, and again from 1870 to 1871.
In 1802, the Lower Canada legislative library was founded. All books it contained were subsequently moved to the Canadian parliament in Montreal when the two Canadas, Lower and Upper, were united. On April 25, 1849 the Canadian parliament was burned along with thousands of French Canadian books and a few hundred English books.
There were five important periods in the history of Canadian newspapers' responsible for the eventual development of the modern newspaper. These are the "Transplant Period" from 1750 to 1800, when printing and newspapers initially came to Canada as publications of government news and proclamations; followed by the "Partisan Period from 1800–1850," when individual printers and editors played ...
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