1878 in Canada
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| Years in Canada: | 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 |
| Centuries: | 18th century · 19th century · 20th century |
| Decades: | 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s |
| Years: | 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 |
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Events from the year 1878 in Canada.
Contents
Incumbents
Crown
- Head of state (monarch) – Queen Victoria (consort – Vacant)
Federal government
- Governor general – Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (until November 25) then John Campbell (viceregal consort – Hariot Georgina Rowan-Hamilton then Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll)
- Prime minister – Alexander Mackenzie (until October 8) then John A. Macdonald (from October 17)
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Albert Norton Richards
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Joseph Édouard Cauchon
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley (until July 11) then Edward Barron Chandler
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – David Laird
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Adams George Archibald
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Donald Alexander Macdonald
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Robert Hodgson
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Luc Letellier de St-Just
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia – Andrew Charles Elliott (until June 25) then George Anthony Walkem
- Premier of Manitoba – Robert Atkinson Davis (until October 16) then John Norquay
- Premier of New Brunswick – George Edwin King (until May 3) then John James Fraser
- Premier of Nova Scotia – Philip Carteret Hill (until October 15) then Simon Hugh Holmes (from October 22)
- Premier of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – Louis Henry Davies
- Premier of Quebec – Charles Boucher de Boucherville (until March 8) then Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – Joseph Édouard Cauchon
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – David Laird
Events
- March 7 - Both the Université de Montréal and the University of Western Ontario are incorporated
- March 8 - Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Sir Charles-Eugène de Boucherville
- May 1 - In the Quebec election, Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau's Conservatives win a minority
- June - The New Brunswick election
- June 25 - George Walkem becomes premier of British Columbia for the second time, replacing Andrew Elliott
- July 20 - The British Columbia election
- September 17
- In the federal election, Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservatives win a majority, defeating Alexander Mackenzie's Liberals
- In the Nova Scotia election, Simon Hugh Holmes's Conservatives win a majority, defeating Philip Carteret Hill's Liberals
- October 16 - John Norquay becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Robert A. Davis
- October 17 - Sir John A. Macdonald becomes prime minister for the second time, replacing Alexander Mackenzie
- October 22 - Simon Holmes becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Philip Hill
- December 18 - The Manitoba election
Full date unknown
- Anti-Chinese sentiment in British Columbia reaches a high point as the government bans Chinese workers from public works.
- John James Fraser becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing George King
- The Newfoundland election
Births
January to June
- January 11 - Percy Chapman Black, politician (d.1961)
- January 13 - Lionel Groulx, priest, historian, Quebec nationalist and traditionalist (d.1967)
- January 22 - Ernest Charles Drury, politician, writer and 8th Premier of Ontario (d.1968)
- February 27 - William Herbert Burns, politician (d.1964)
- February 28 - Arthur Roebuck, politician and labour lawyer (d.1971)
- April 14 - John Walter Jones, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1954)
- April 29 - Fawcett G. Taylor, politician
- June 14 - Lewis St. George Stubbs, judge and politician (d.1958)
- June 20 - Seymour J. Farmer, politician (d.1951)
July to December
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- July 14 - Ernest Frederick Armstrong, politician (d.1948)
- July 23 - James Thomas Milton Anderson, politician and 5th Premier of Saskatchewan (d.1946)
- August 15 - Thomas Laird Kennedy, politician and 15th Premier of Ontario (d.1959)
- September 18 - William Sherring, marathon runner and Olympic gold medalist (d.1964)
- December 8 - Henry Herbert Stevens, politician and businessman (d.1973)
- December 30 - William Aberhart, politician and 8th Premier of Alberta (d.1943)
Deaths
- February 23 - William Workman, businessman and municipal politician (b.1807)
- April 3 - Louis-Philippe Turcotte, historian (b.1842)
- April 12 - John Young, politician (b.1811)
- May 13 - George Moffat, Sr., businessman and politician (b.1810)
- May 20 - Lemuel Allan Wilmot, lawyer, politician, judge, and 3rd Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (b.1809)
- November 3 - Pierre Bachand, politician (b.1835)
- November 28 - Francis Evans Cornish, politician (b.1831)
- December 6 - Jean-Baptiste Meilleur, doctor, educator and politician (b.1796)
