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1887 in Canada

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1887
in
Canada

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Events from the year 1887 in Canada.

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Crown

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Federal government

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Lieutenant governors

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January to June

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July to December

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Historical documents

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Senate committee suggests seeding North-West with wild rice, developing bison hybrid, and preserving food using Indigenous ways[2]

Senate debate on North-West Territories growth blames decades of delay on British ignorance (Note: "Indians" and "civilize" stereotypes)[3]

Canadian Pacific Railway offers land seekers $25 return fare to Winnipeg, with option to go on westward (and fare refunded if 160 acres purchased)[4]

Statistical snapshot of Ontario, with note on reciprocity with U.S.[5]

Royal commission hears that labour and small business in Toronto are squeezed by increasing competition and rising rents[6]

"A blot on our Statute Book" - Sen. William Johnston Almon against Chinese head tax law penalizing any immigrant with "yellow skin and an almond eye"[7]

Opposition Leader Wilfrid Laurier comments on "cancer of emigration" to United States[8]

References

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  1. ^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Second Report of the Select Committee of the Senate on the Existing Natural Food Products of the North-West Territories[....]," pgs. 4-5. Accessed 5 October 2020
  3. ^ "The Natural Food Products of the North-West; Debate in the Senate[...]on the Report of the Committee[....]," pg. 2 Accessed 5 October 2020
  4. ^ "To Land Hunters!" (May 12, 1887), University of British Columbia Library. Accessed 10 July 2022
  5. ^ Archibald Blue, Resources and Progress of the Province of Ontario (1888). Accessed 10 October 2019
  6. ^ "Phillips Thompson, Journalist, of Toronto, called and sworn" (November 28, 1887), Report of the Royal Commission on the Relations of Labor and Capital in Canada; Evidence, Ontario (1889), pgs. 98-100 Accessed 21 May 2020
  7. ^ "Chinese Immigration Bill; Second Reading" (June 10, 1887), Senate Debates, 6th Parliament, 1st Session; Vol. 1, pgs. 297-8 (PDF pgs. 297-8). Accessed 8 January 2023
  8. ^ Ulric Barthe, Wilfrid Laurier on the Platform; Collection of the Principal Speeches[...] (1890), pg. 376 Accessed 19 October 2019