1874 in Canada
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See also: 1873 in Canada, other events of 1874, 1875 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.
Events
- January 22 - Federal election: Alexander Mackenzie's Liberals win a majority
- February - Louis Riel is elected to the House of Commons but cannot take the seat.
- February 11 - George Walkem becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Amor De Cosmos
- July 8 - Marc-Amable Girard becomes premier of Manitoba for the second time, replacing Henry 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
- December 3 - Robert Davis becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Marc-Amable Girard
- Anabaptists (Russian Mennonites) start to arrive in Manitoba from various Russian colonies.
- The federal Liberal government grants provisional boundaries to Ontario that extend the province to the north and west. These provisional boundaries will not be recognized by the federal Conservatives when they return to power.
