Births
- June 24 - Pierre-Ernest Boivin, politician and businessman (d.1938)
- August 25 - John Campbell Elliott, lawyer and politician (d.1941)
- October 17 - Samuel Wickett, businessman
- October 26 - Alfred Edmond Bourgeois, politician (d.1939)
- November 10 - Frederick C. Alderdice, businessman, politician and last Prime Minister of Newfoundland (d.1936)
- November 30 - John McCrae, poet, physician, author, artist and soldier (d.1918)
- December 23 - Charles Bélec, politician (d.1958)
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