1874 in Canada

Events

January 22 - Federal election: Alexander Mackenzie's Liberals win a majority
February 11 - George Walkem becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Amor De Cosmos
April 16 - Louis Riel is barred from taking his seat in the House of Commons.
May 29 - The Libeals introduce electoral reform that introduces the secret ballot and abolishes property qualifications
July 8 - Marc-Amable Girard becomes premier of Manitoba for the second time, replacing Henry Joseph Clarke
July 26 - Alexander Graham Bell discloses the invention of the telephone to his father at the family home on the outskirts of Brantford, Ontario.
September 22 - Sir Charles-Eugène de Boucherville becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Gédéon Ouimet
October 1 - The North-West Mounted Police base at Fort Macleod is founded
December 3 - Robert Davis becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Marc-Amable Girard
Anabaptists (Russian Mennonites) start to arrive in Manitoba from various Russian colonies.
The federal Liberal government grants provisional boundaries to Ontario that extend the province to the north and west. These provisional boundaries will not be recognized by the federal Conservatives when they return to power.