Events
- January 22 - Federal election: Alexander Mackenzie's Liberals win a majority, defeating J. A. Macdonald's Liberal-Conservatives
- February 11 - George Walkem becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Amor De Cosmos
- April 16 - Louis Riel is barred from taking his seat in the House of Commons.
- May 29 - The Liberals introduce electoral reform that introduces the secret ballot and abolishes property qualifications<
- June-July - New Brunswick election
- July 8 - Marc-Amable Girard becomes premier of Manitoba for the second time, replacing Henry Joseph Clarke
- July 26 - Alexander Graham Bell discloses the invention of the telephone to his father at the family home on the outskirts of Brantford, Ontario.
- September 22 - Sir Charles-Eugène de Boucherville becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Gédéon Ouimet
- October 1 - The North-West Mounted Police base at Fort Macleod is founded
- December 3 - Robert Davis becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Marc-Amable Girard.
- December 17 - Nova Scotia election: Philip Carteret Hill's Liberals win a second consecutive majority
- December 30 - Manitoba election
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