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Events from the year 1885 in Canada.
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Events
- March 26 - Louis Riel and the Métis battle the North-West Mounted Police at Duck Lake
- April 24 - North-West Rebellion: Battle of Fish Creek fought between Canadian forces and the Métis
- May 2 - North-West Rebellion: Battle of Cut Knife
- May 9-May 12 - North-West Rebellion: Battle of Batoche the Métis are defeated in battle
- May 28 - North-West Rebellion: Battle of Frenchman's Butte
- June 3 - North-West Rebellion: Battle of Loon Lake. The last Cree resistance is shattered.
- July 2 - Big Bear captured.
- November 7 - The transcontinental railway is completed. John A. Macdonald receives a telegram announcing that the first train from Montreal in Quebec is approaching the Pacific.
- November 16 - Riel is executed in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Full date unknown
- Banff National Park, the first national park in Canada is established
- A head tax on Chinese immigrants is imposed by the federal government
- Canada outlaws the potlatch ceremony among Northwest Coast tribes. The law, often ignored, is repealed in 1951.
Births
January to June
- January 11 - Gordon Daniel Conant, lawyer, politician and 12th Premier of Ontario (d.1953)
- January 13 - Alfred Fuller, businessman (d.1973)
- February 4 - Cairine Wilson, Canada's first female Senator (d.1962)
- April 3 - Allan Dwan, film director, producer and screenwriter (d.1981)
- May 8 - Thomas B. Costain, journalist and historical novelist (d.1965)
- June 27 - Arthur Lismer, painter and member of the Group of Seven (d.1969)
July to December
- July 23 - Izaak Walton Killam, financier (d.1955)
- July 31 - Charles Avery Dunning, politician, Minister and university chancellor (d.1958)
- October 23 - Lawren Harris, Group of Seven painter (d.1970)
- November 5 - Edgar Sydney Little, politician (d.1943)
- December 5 - Ernest Cormier, engineer and architect (d.1980)
- December 24 - Abraham Albert Heaps, politician and labor leader (d.1954)
Deaths
- May 8 - James Colledge Pope, politician and 5th Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1826)
- July 17 - Jean-Charles Chapais, politician (b.1811)
- November 5 - David Anderson, Church of England priest and bishop of Rupert's Land (b.1814)
- November 16 - Louis Riel, politician and Métis leader (b.1844)
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