1888 in Canada explained

Events from the year 1888 in Canada.

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House of Commons committee hears of cartels conspiring to control products ranging from groceries to coal to stoves and coffins[2]

Sandford Fleming's ideas on telegraph line to Australia[3]

Indenture form between "Guardian" and caretaker/employer who agrees to pay immigrant boy and give him "good clothing and schooling" etc. for work[4]

U.S. Supreme Court rules on Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent in light of previous invention claimed by "a poor mechanic"[5]

Brief visit to Chinatown temple in Victoria, B.C.[6]

In report on northern lands, Senate committee points out unwanted wildlife loss from "greater ease in their capture" and use of poison[7]

Lecturer describes dogs of Hudson Strait Inuit[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Queen Victoria The Canadian Encyclopedia . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . 5 December 2022.
  2. https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_0602_1_1/9?r=0&s=1 Report of the Select Committee Appointed(...)to Investigate and Report upon Alleged Combinations in Manufactures, Trade and Insurance in Canada
  3. "Pacific Cable Telegraph between Canada and Australia[...]," Privy Council Minutes, February 18–27, 1888, pgs. 331-5. Accessed 10 October 2019 http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/politics-government/orders-council/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=41533 (flip to pg. 331 and click on image to enlarge)
  4. Youth indenture form (Pursuant to March 9, 1888 Order in Council), Immigration Program: Headquarters central registry files: C-4709, Image 379 Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 26 May 2024
  5. Chief Justice Waite, "Telephone Cases (Part Three Three)" (March 18, 1888). Accessed 10 October 2020
  6. James Carmichael, A Holiday Trip; Montreal to Victoria and Return via the Canadian Pacific Railway[...] (1888), pgs. 28-9 Accessed 10 October 2019
  7. Senate Committees, 6th Parliament, 2nd Session: Select Committee on Resources of the Great Mackenzie Basin, Vol. 1, pg. 13 Accessed 1 October 2020
  8. Wm. A. Ashe, "The Eskimos of Hudson Straits," Lectures Given at the Quebec Garrison Club, 1888-9 (1889), pgs. 25-6, 43-5. Accessed 10 October 2019