Events from the year 1880 in Canada.

1880
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Canada

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Historical documents

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Statute creates Canadian Pacific Railway as government-supported private company for benefit of B.C. and N.W.T.[2]

Chief Ocean Man and another Nakoda (Stoney) describe attack on their people by Gros Ventre and Mandan from U.S. side of border[3]

British order-in-council transfers Arctic islands to Dominion of Canada [4]

Using words like "terrible evil" and "usurpation," Anti-Chinese Association petitions British Columbia legislature to stop Chinese immigration[5]

Editorial on complaints of French-Canadians[6]

Walt Whitman calls Thousand Islands most beautiful place on Earth[7]

To avoid bankruptcy caused by westward expansion, Canada must declare independence[8]

Britain gifts part of HMS Resolute to U.S. for saving that Arctic exploration ship [9]

Painting: Trapper approaches animal caught in leghold trap[10]

References

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  1. ^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  2. ^ An Act Respecting the Canadian Pacific Railway Accessed 14 October 2019
  3. ^ "No. 343; (letter of) Sir Edward Thornton to Mr. (Wm. M.) Evarts(, Department of State, Washington)" Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States[....] (1882), pgs. 570-72. Accessed 8 December 2019 Subsequent correspondence
  4. ^ Gordon W. Smith, "The Transfer of Arctic Territories from Great Britain to Canada(...)" Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America, Vol. 14, No. 1 (1961), pgs. 62-3. Accessed 14 October 2019
  5. ^ "Petition" (April 12, 1880), University of British Columbia Library. Accessed 16 June 2024
  6. ^ "A Morbid Nationalism" Canadian Illustrated News (November 11, 1880), pg. 2. Accessed 27 September 2019
  7. ^ Walt Whitman's Diary in Canada (1904), pgs. 24-5. Accessed 27 September 2019
  8. ^ William Norris, "Canadian Nationality; A Present-Day Plea" Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review (February 1880), pgs. 113-18. Accessed 23 April 2020
  9. ^ United States Department of State, Index to the Executive Documents of the House of Representatives for the Third Session of the Forty-Sixth Congress, 1880-'81 (No. 354, August 26, 1880), pg. 525. Accessed 27 September 2019
  10. ^ Harry Bullock-Webster, "Got 'im at last; Fort McLeod 1880" (Fort McLeod, B.C.). Accessed 27 June 2021