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Province and territories joined Confederation, or were created from existing parts of Canada: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec.
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Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the fathers of Confederation and an outspoken enemy of the Fenians, becomes Canada's first assassination victim at the hands of a Fenian.
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Riel establishes a legal provisional government in Rupert's Land.
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Métis rights recognized, as Manitoba becomes a province. (But Riel will have to flee Canada because of Scott's execution.)
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Province and territories joined Confederation, or were created from existing parts of Canada: Prince Edward Island
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The Pacific Scandal erupts: Prime Minister Macdonald accused of corruption in negotiations over a transcontinental railway. ( His government will be forced to resign.)
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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 world's first long-distance phone call connects the Bell residence with a shoe and boot store in nearby Paris, Ontario (Aug. 10).
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Treaty No.7 cedes the last big section of Prairie land to the government of Canada
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Secret ballot used for the first time in a federal general election.
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Macdonald introduces protective tariffs, a transcontinental railway, and immigration to the west in his National Policy.
