1871 in Canada - Births

Births

  • January 30 - Wilfred Lucas, actor, film director and screenwriter (d.1940)
  • May 14 - Walter Stanley Monroe, businessman, politician and Prime Minister of Newfoundland (d.1952)
  • July 16 - George Stewart Henry, politician and 10th Premier of Ontario (d.1958)
  • July 25 - Richard Ernest William Turner, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (d.1961)
  • August 4 - Robert Hamilton Butts, politician (d.1943)
  • September 8 - Samuel McLaughlin, businessman and philanthropist (d.1972)
  • September 9 - Hugh Robson, politician and judge
  • October 31 - Alexander Stirling MacMillan, businessman, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1955)
  • December 2 - Stanislas Blanchard, politician (d.1949)
  • December 13 - Emily Carr, artist and writer (d.1945)

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