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Events from the year 1879 in Canada.
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Events
- February 4 - Prince Edward Island election: William Wilfred Sullivan's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority
- March 12 - Sir John A. Macdonald introduces protective tariffs on manufactured goods being imported into Canada, a transcontinental railway, and immigration to the west in his National Policy.
- April 25 - Sir William Wilfred Sullivan becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Sir Louis Davies
- June 5 - Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a third consecutive majority
- October 31 - Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Henri-Gustave de Lotbinière
- December 16 - Manitoba election
Births
January to June
- January 15 - Mazo de la Roche, author (d.1961)
- January 17 - Richard Gavin Reid, politician and 7th Premier of Alberta (d.1980)
- January 25 - Humphrey T. Walwyn, naval officer and Governor of Newfoundland (d.1957)
- February 14 - Eli Burton, physicist
- March 20 - Maud Menten, medical scientist (d.1960)
- May 25 - Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, business tycoon, politician and writer (d.1964)
- June 12 - Charles Dow Richards, judge, politician and 18th Premier of New Brunswick (d.1956)
July to December
- August 1 - Eva Tanguay, singer and entertainer (d.1947)
- August 16 - Samuel Lawrence, politician and trade unionist (d.1959)
- October 6 - James Langstaff Bowman, politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (d.1951)
- October 9 - William Warren, lawyer, politician, judge and Prime Minister of Newfoundland (d.1927)
- November 3 - Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer and ethnologist (d.1962)
- November 11 - Violet McNaughton, feminist
- November 25 - Joseph-Arsène Bonnier, politician (d.1962)
- December 24 - Émile Nelligan, poet (d.1941)
Deaths
- January 4 - Pierre-Alexis Tremblay, politician (b.1827)
- January 16 - Octave Crémazie, poet (b.1827)
- April 4 - Jean-Baptiste Thibault, missionary and a Father of Confederation (b.1810)
- October 7 - William Henry Pope, lawyer, politician, judge and a Father of Confederation (b.1825)
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