Events from the year 1886 in Canada.

[edit] Events

• March 25 - Workman's Compensation Act passed in Ontario
• April 6 - Vancouver incorporated as a city
• June 6 - The Parliament buildings open in Ottawa
• June 7 - Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau becomes the first Canadian cardinal
• December 14 - Yoho National Park established
• December 28 - 1886 Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a fifth consecutive majority.

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• Mohawk men of the Caughnawaga Reserve in Quebec are trained to help build a bridge across the St. Lawrence River, beginning a tradition of high steel construction work among the Iroquois.
• Construction begins on the Banff Springs Hotel

[edit] Births

• January 15 - C. D. Howe, politician and Minister (d.1960)
• May 13 - William John Patterson, politician and 6th Premier of Saskatchewan (d.1976)
• August 4 - Pierre-François Casgrain, politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (d.1950)
• August 30 - Ray Lawson, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1980)
• October 16 - Joseph-Arthur Bradette, politician (d.1961)

[edit] Deaths

Joseph-Alfred Mousseau

• March 30 - Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, politician and 6th Premier of Quebec (b.1837)
• June 25 - Auguste Achintre, journalist and essayist (b.1834)
• July 4 - Pitikwahanapiwiyin, Cree chief (b. c1842)