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1884 in Canada

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1884
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Canada

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Events from the year 1884 in Canada.

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Historical documents

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Opposition Leader Edward Blake touches on several Liberal Party principles and political points[4]

Essay on disadvantages of Confederation for Manitoba[5]

Winnipegger Alexander Begg lectures in London on his years in the Northwest[6]

Report on Indigenous peoples of Northwest (Note: "savage," other stereotypes)[7]

Witnesses describe tense stand-off between Mounties and armed group of Cree[8]

Touring British scientists find Chief Crowfoot selling his personal items at Gleichen, Alberta[9]

Louis Riel is asked to return from exile[10]

Letter of Louis Riel declining invitation to speak in Prince Albert[11]

Anglophone Quebeckers assess agricultural and forestry advantages of Calgary region[12]

Newspaper controversy over encouraging deaf people to settle in Northwest[13]

Nova Scotia woman writes to her mother about losing her newborn child[14]

"A young man of unbounded enthusiasm," Ernest Thompson Seton becomes ornithology director at Canadian Postal College of the Natural Sciences[15]

References

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  1. ^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  2. ^ "The House of Commons Heritage Collection". parl.gc.ca. March 2011. Retrieved 2012-07-16.
  3. ^ "Discovery Of Seven Survivors of Lieut. Greeley's Party". The Cornishman. No. 314. 24 July 1884. p. 7.
  4. ^ "Speech of the Hon. Edward Blake before the Young Men's Liberal Club of Toronto(...)" The (Montreal) Times (January 17, 1884). Accessed 14 October 2019
  5. ^ Henry T. Burgess, Manitoba and Confederation (1884). Accessed 7 October 2019
  6. ^ Alexander Begg, Seventeen Years in the Canadian North-West (1884). Accessed 7 October 2019
  7. ^ George Bryce, "Our Indians;" Delivered before the Y.M.C.A., Winnipeg(...). Accessed 14 October 2019
  8. ^ Campbell Innes, The Cree Rebellion of 1884, or, Sidelights on Indian Conditions Subsequent to 1876 (1926), pgs. 11, 15-17, 39, 42-3. Accessed 6 October 2019
  9. ^ British Association for the Advancement of Science, Report of the Visit of the British Association to the Canadian North-West[...] (1884), pg. 12. Accessed 6 October 2019
  10. ^ Canada; Department of the Secretary of State; Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Return (in Part) to an Address of the House of Commons(...): For Copies of All Papers Found in the Council Room of the Insurgents(...) (1886). Accessed 7 October 2019
  11. ^ Louis Riel, "To the gentlemen who kindly invite me to hold a public meeting in Prince Albert" Morton Manuscripts Collection, University of Saskatchewan Libraries Special Collections. Accessed 7 October 2019
  12. ^ Thomas Shepard Barwis, Calgary, Alberta, and the Canadian North West: Valuable Information for Intending Settlers (1885), pg 5. Accessed 7 October 2019
  13. ^ Jane Elizabeth Groom and "H.H.," A Future for the Deaf and Dumb in the Canadian North-West (1884), pgs. 18-20. Accessed 7 October 2019
  14. ^ Dove Crowell to Catherine McQueen, October 21, 1884, Yarmouth The McQueen Family Papers, Atlantic Canada Virtual Archives. Accessed 7 October 2019
  15. ^ "Secretary's Report; Another Director" The Canadian Science Monthly, Vol. II, No. 3 (March 1884), pg. 47. Accessed 3 April 2022