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Events from the year 1871 in Canada.
Incumbents
Provincial governments
Canada provinces 1871–1873
Events
July to December
- July 15 – Phoebe Campbell murders her husband with an axe. She is hanged the next year.
- July 20 – British Columbia joins Confederation.
- July 25 – Treaty 1 the first of a number of treaties with western Canada's First Nations is signed
- August 17 – Treaty 2 is signed
- November 11 – The last of the British army leaves Canada
- November 13 – John McCreight becomes the first premier of British Columbia
- December 14 – Marc-Amable Girard becomes the first franco-manitoban of premier of Manitoba, replacing Alfred Boyd
- December 20 – Edward Blake becomes premier of Ontario, replacing J. S. Macdonald.
Births
George Stewart Henry
- January 30 – Wilfred Lucas, actor, film director and screenwriter (d.1940)
- May 14 – Walter Stanley Monroe, businessman, politician and Prime Minister of Newfoundland (d.1952)
- July 16 – George Stewart Henry, politician and 10th Premier of Ontario (d.1958)
- July 25 – Richard Ernest William Turner, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (d.1961)
- August 4 – Robert Hamilton Butts, politician (d.1943)
- September 8 – Samuel McLaughlin, businessman and philanthropist (d.1972)
- September 9 – Hugh Robson, politician and judge
- October 31 – Alexander Stirling MacMillan, businessman, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1955)
- December 2 – Stanislas Blanchard, politician (d.1949)
- December 13 – Emily Carr, artist and writer (d.1945)
Deaths
Modeste Demers
- January 29 – Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, lawyer, writer, fifth and last seigneur of Saint-Jean-Port-Joli (L'Islet County) (b.1786)
- January 31 – John Ross, lawyer, politician, and businessman. (b. 1818)
- February 20 – Paul Kane, artist (b.1810)
- March 11 – John Heckman, political figure (b.1785)
- July 28 – Modeste Demers, missionary (b.1809)
- September 23 – Louis-Joseph Papineau, lawyer, politician and reformist (b.1786)
- November 18 – Enos Collins, seaman, merchant, financier, and legislator (b.1774)
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