1875 in Canada

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1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• January 18 - Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a second consecutive majority
• May 11 - Philip Carteret Hill becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing William Annand
• The Supreme Court of Canada is established
• Louis Riel is granted amnesty with the condition that he be banished for five years.
• Jennifer Trout becomes the first woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada, although Emily Stowe has been doing so without a license in Toronto since 1867
• Grace Lockhart receives from Mount Allison University the first Bachelor of Arts degree awarded to a woman.
• Hospital for Sick Children founded.

• December 5 - Arthur Currie, WWI army general

• June 22 - William Edmond Logan, geologist