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The St Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad was opened today running from Longueuil to Richmond, Québec.
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The first Canadian postage stamps were issued today: a Twelve-Pence Black, showing Queen Victoria at the age of 19, a Three-Pence Beaver and a Six-Pence Prince Consort, which carried a portrait of Prince Albert.
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The census happened today it estimated the population of Canada East as 890 261 and Canada West as 952 000.
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Today Britain transfered the colonial postal servie to Canada. It was all over the place. Newsboy were sprending the news everywhere.
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Hooray Toronto's Trinity College opened today
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The news travel pretty fast soon Bytown had discovered that Laval's Séminaire du Québec founds Université Laval.
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The Toronto Locomotive Works completed the "Toronto", the first locomotive built in Canada.The test run should happen soon.
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The Toronto Globe was first issued today as a daily newspaper.
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The Great Western Railway opened its main line between London and Windsor, Ont.
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During a vicious storm on Lake Erie, the schooner Conductor foundered. The crew clung to the frozen rigging all night. Next morning Abigail Becker waded shoulder-high into the surf and cajoled the men ashore.
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The suspension bridge across the Niagara River was opened, at Niagara Falls this morning.
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The city that i used to live in Bytown was rename Ottawa.
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i would like to congratulate my dear friend James Miller Williams of Hamilton for dugging up the first commercial oil well in North America in Enniskillen Township, Ont.
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Another one of my friends Timothy Eaton opens his first general store, in Kirkton, Ontario. Thirteen years later he opens a store at the corner of Queen and Yonge in Toronto.
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Guess what happened today? The Grand Trunk Railway opened connecting Toronto and Montreal.
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The capital of the Province of Canada changed today. Queen Victoria designates Ottawa as capital.
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I got a job in the news office as Editor.
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the first Canadian coins were minted: silver 5-cent, 10-cent and 20-cent pieces and bronze pennies.
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Another brawl is taking place, but this one was a bloodless war it took place in Yale, British Columbia in the fall of 1858. The conflict posed a threat to the newly established British authority on the British Columbia mainland which had just established the summer before.
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The Fraser Canyon Gold Rush began in 1858 when i discovered gold in the Thompson River in British Columbia at its gathering with the Nicoamen River. This was a few miles upstream from the Thompson's meeting with the Fraser River
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Sigh more battling today. Some rumor is going around saying that a young women in the aboriginal tribes got raped by a french. So the aboriginal declared war on the french.
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A confrontation in 1859 between the United States and the British Empire is over the boundary between the US and British North America again. In my life every war is about boundary or rebels.
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I never knew i Chinese women could become a Canadian Citizen. But when i saw this "Chinese to Canadian" is bold letters i read on. So the wife of merchant Kwong Lee arrived in Victoria, BC. She became Canada's first female Chinese citizen.
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On September 1, 1860, the streeets were crowded with people. Everything was ready for the great event. The streets were decked with triumphal arches made of lilies, and logs. A pavilion had been prepared on Parliament Hill. The framework that held the cornerstone was decorated with Gothic arches, a crown of fleurs-de-lys and British flags
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Even though i don't live in Nova Scotia but news came fast. Joesph Howe became the premier of Nova Scotia.
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The St Lawrence River flooded, inundating Montréal.
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Holy Moly, The American warship San Jacinto stopped the British steamer Trent in the Bahamas Channel and seized two Confederate agents; this incident brought Britain and the US to the brink of war.
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pretty interesting to find this in the new "Mount Allison University accepts the first woman student in Sackville, N.B."
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Billy Barker strikes gold on Williams Creek in the Caribou country of British Columbia.
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The Sicotte-Sandfield Macdonald ministry was defeated in the Assembly of the Province of Canada after only a year in power.
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Sixteen Confederates seized the American coastal steamer Chesapeake off Cape Cod and diverted it to Saint John, NB.
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Even though i'm not in the conference but i still know a little about it, being a newsman. The Charlottetown Conference takes the first steps toward Confederation.
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This conference i was there on site, and be a reporter. The Québec Conference identifies the seventy-two resolutions that set out the basis for union.
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The first soda pulp mill, which dispersed wood chips in a solution of caustic soda, was built at Windsor Mills, Québec
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The first Canadian game of rugby took place in 1865 in Montreal when English regiment officers and civilians, mainly from McGill University, engaged in competition.
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Battle of Ridgeway was the height of the biggest Fenian raid into Canada.
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The Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia are combined into one colony named British Columbia.
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Canadians Nova Scotians and New brunswick meet in London England with the British Government. The results guarantees a separate school system, in Quebec and Ontario, but not Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
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British North America Act unites Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the Dominion of Canada. Today Ottawa offically became the capital of Dominion. John A. Macdonald became the first prime minister of Canada.
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the famous Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the fathers of Confederation, had outspoken enemy of the Fenians, and became Canada's first assassination victim at the hands of a Fenian.
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The Montreal Football Club has formed, playing a Canadian variety of rugby football. It was Canada's first organized football team.
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My best friend geologist William Parks, who was one of the founders and original directors of the Royal Ontario Museum, was born at Hamilton, Ont. on December 11, 1868.
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The first issue of the Montreal Star was published today.
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Riel establishes a legal provisional government in Rupert's Land.
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Today Canada purchases Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company.
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Lots of people are demanding for leather goods leading to the destruction of northen bison herds, which in turn leads to the collapse of the western native economy.
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By the Treaty of Washington, now Americans were granted the right to fish in Canadian waters, the use of Canadian canals and the St Lawrence River;
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The New Brunswick government passed the Common Schools Act to strengthen and reform the school system. At the same time, it abandoned an informal system of separate schools that had grown up since the 1850s.
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British Columbia joined the Confederation.
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The first issue of the Toronto Mail was published.
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Demand for a 9-hour day began on a march in Hamilton, Ont, and spread across Canada, the first unified labour protest in Canada.
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P. E. I. joined the confederation
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John A. Macdonald gives up the prime minister seat over the Pacific Scandal.
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The next prime minister is Alexander Mackenzie, a Liberal.
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My Brother's neighbor Alexander Graham Bell discloses the invention of the telephone to his father at the family home on the outskirts of Brantford, Ontario
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Bell's first functioning telephone is demonstrated in Boston.
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The Supreme Court of Canada is established.
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The Intercolonial Railway, growing out of the Halifax-Truro line, and linked central Canada and the Maritimes.
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it was World's first long-distance phone call connecting the Bell residence with a shoe and boot store in nearby Paris, Ontario.
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Today the provincial legislature creates the University of Manitoba.
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The Conservatives under Macdonald won federal election. Anti- Chinese attitudes in British Columbia reaches a high point so the government banned all Chinese workers from public works.
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Sandford Fleming proposes the idea of standard time.
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Today Sir John A. Macdonald introduces protective prices, a transcontinental railway, and immigration to the west in his National Policy.
