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Canadian Events of the 1870s
| July 15, 1870 | Manitoba and the Northwest Territories joined Confederation. |
| February 20, 1871 | Born 1810, artist Paul Kane died. |
| July 25, 1871 | Soldier Richard Ernest William Turner, recipient of the Victoria Cross was born. |
| July 20, 1871 | British Columbia joins Confederation |
| 1871 | The Sun Insurance Company of Montreal was founded in Montreal, Quebec in 1865. It began operations in 1871. |
| September 8, 1871 | Samuel McLaughlin, born at Enniskillen, Ontario |
| March 31, 1872 | First issue printed of the Toronto Mail newspaper. It would later become the Globe and Mail. |
| April 8, 1872 | Artist, Cornelius Krieghoff died. |
| November 30, 1872 | John McCrae was born. He became a noted poet, physician, artist and soldier. |
| January 10, 1873 | George Orton born. He became an Olympic gold medalist. He was the first Canadian to win an Olympic medal. |
| May 23, 1873 | North-West Mounted Police were founded. |
| July 1, 1873 | Prince Edward Island joins Confederation. |
| October 20, 1873 | Birth of Nellie McClung, feminist, politician and social activist. |
| November 5, 1873 | John A. McDonald resigns as Prime Minister of Canada. |
| January 16, 1874 | Birth of Robert W. Service, poet and writer. |
| March 9, 1874 | Joseph Casavant, manufacturer of Casavant pipe organs, died. |
| July 26, 1874 | Alexander Graham Bell revealed his invention of the telephone. He presented the invention at the family home near Brantford, Ontario. |
| October 27, 1874 | The biggest wooden ship ever built, in the Maritimes, was the William D. Lawrence. It was launched at Maitland, Nova Scotia. |
| November 30, 1874 | Birth of Lucy Maud Montgomery, author. |
| April 5, 1875 | Supreme Court of Canada created. |
| 1875 | Jennie Trout becomes the first woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada. |
| June 1, 1875 | Construction begins on the Canadian Pacific Railway. |
| 1875 | The Hospital for Sick Children is founded. |
| September 6, 1875 | Birth of Canadian Marine Biologist Edith Berkeley. |
| April 3, 1876 | Birth of actress Margaret Anglin. She also became a director and producer. |
| August 10, 1876 | Scottish-born Alexander Graham Bell, began working on his invention of the telephone in 1874. In 1876, he makes the first ever long-distance call from Brantford to Paris, Ontario. |
| 1876 | Founding of the Toronto Women’s Literary Club. |
| February 28, 1877 | Founding of University of Manitoba. |
| August 5, 1877 | Artist Tom Thomson born. |
| November 3, 1877 | Death of William Henry Draper, politician, lawyer and judge. |
| November 8, 1877 | Death of John Cook who had been a soldier in the War of 1812 and fought at the Battle of Crysler’s Farm. |
| September 18, 1878 | Birth of William Sherring, a marathon runner and future Olympic gold medalist. |
| March 20, 1879 | Birth of physician-scientist Maud Leonora Menten. |
| August 1, 1879 | Birth of singer and entertainer Eva Tanguay. |
| October 7, 1879 | Death of William Henry Pope, lawyer, politician and a Father of Confederation. |
| November 11, 1879 | Her birth name was Violet McNaughton but she was known as Jean Adair during her acting career. |
| 1879 | McGill University students in Montreal play the first organized games of hockey. Their game was played with a flat puck rather than the use of a ball as in earlier games. |
