1886 In Canada

Events

• March 25 - Workman's Compensation Act passed in Ontario
• April 6 - Vancouver incorporated as a city
• June 6 - The Parliament buildings open in Ottawa
• June 7 - Elzar-Alexandre Taschereau becomes the first ever Canadian cardinal
• December 14 - Yoho National Park established
• December 28 - 1886 Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a fifth consecutive majority.
• Mohawk nation men of the Caughnawaga Reserve in Quebec are trained to help build a bridge across the St. Lawrence River beginning a tradition of high steel construction work among the Iroquois.
• Construction begins on the Banff Springs Hotel

Births

• January 15 - C.D. Howe, politician
• March 4 - Sam Langford, boxer
• May 13 - William John Patterson, Premier of Saskatchewan
• August 4 - Pierre-Franois Casgrain, politician
• August 30 - Ray Lawson, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario

Deaths

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