Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Rockslide in Quebec City, September 19, 1889. August 1 – Alexander Davie, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office. August 2 – John Robson becomes premier of British Columbia. August 12 – The Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act, 1889 of the British Parliament expands Ontario's boundaries west to the Lake of the Woods and north to the Albany ...
Concluding a series of agreements between Canada, the United Kingdom, and the Hudson's Bay Company, Canada acquires Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory, forming the Northwest Territories. In the aftermath of the Red River Rebellion, Manitoba is subdivided from the new territory in the area around Winnipeg , becoming Canada's fifth ...
This timeline of the history of Toronto documents all events that occurred in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, including historical events in the former cities of East York, Etobicoke, North York, Toronto, Scarborough, and York. Events date back to the early-17th century and continue until the present in chronological order.
So for example cosmopolitan time G:45 would map to local time 14:45 in one zone and 15:45 in the next. [15] [17] In two papers "Time reckoning" and "Longitude and Time Reckoning" presented at a meeting of the Canadian Institute in Toronto on February 8, 1879, Fleming revised his system to link with the anti-meridian of Greenwich (the 180th ...
Riots and civil unrest in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in chronological order; Date Issue Event August 2, 1892: Racial tension A race riot ensued after members of the Chinese community were blamed for a smallpox outbreak. City authorities burned a laundry where a Chinese worker contracted the disease, and its occupants were quarantined.
1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1889th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 889th year of the 2nd millennium, the 89th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1880s decade. As of ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
Canada's material condition was weak, 1867–1896, and the psychological mood became increasingly embittered. Historian Arthur Lower concludes that in the late 1880s, “never before or since has Canada reached such a low state; never has there been so little evidence among its people of national spirit.” [10] The economy grew very slowly, and large districts, especially in the Maritimes and ...