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{{Unreferenced|date=December 2009}}{{Year box}}{{History of Canada}}Events from the year 1880 in Canada. Incumbents Crown - Head of state (monarch) – Victoria
Federal government - Governor general – John Campbell
- Prime minister – John A. Macdonald
- Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick)
- Parliament – 4th
Provincial governments Lieutenant governors - Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Albert Norton Richards
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Joseph Édouard Cauchon
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Edward Barron Chandler (until February 6) then Robert Duncan Wilmot (from February 11)
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Adams George Archibald
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Donald Alexander Macdonald (until July 1) then John Beverley Robinson
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Thomas Heath Haviland
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Théodore Robitaille
Premiers - Premier of British Columbia – George Anthony Walkem
- Premier of Manitoba – John Norquay
- Premier of New Brunswick – John James Fraser
- Premier of Nova Scotia – Simon Hugh Holmes
- Premier of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – William Wilfred Sullivan
- Premier of Quebec – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
Territorial governments Lieutenant governors - Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – Joseph Édouard Cauchon
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – David Laird
Events- February 4 – Five members of the Donnelly family are killed near Lucan, Ontario
- February 14 – The wife of the governor general, The Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne, is seriously injured when the viceregal sleigh overturns on a Rudolph Ottawa street.
- March 25 – George Brown fatally shot by a disgruntled employee
- May 4 – Edward Blake becomes the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
- June 24 – "O Canada" first performed
- October 9 – The United Kingdom gives Canada control of the Arctic islands.
Full date unknown- Emily Stowe becomes the first woman doctor to practise medicine in Canada
- Sanford Fleming becomes chancellor of Queen's University
- Bell Canada founded
- Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). British-backed Canadian firm, headed by US railroad building genius (Sir William Cornelius Van Horne) gets the deal: $25 million, {{convert|25|e6acre|km2}}, already completed sections free, all under-construction sections finished free, 20 year monopoly as only railway and 20-year control over rate-setting.
- The Varsity, created.
Arts and literature- March 6 – The Royal Academy for the Arts is founded.
New books- Charles G.D. Roberts, Orion and Other Poems
Births- January 17 – Mack Sennett, actor, producer, screenwriter and film director (d.1960)
- January 18 – Richard Squires, politician and Prime Minister of Newfoundland (d.1940)
- March 22 – Allison Dysart, politician, lawyer, judge and 21st Premier of New Brunswick (d.1962)
- October 1 – Charles Christie, motion picture studio owner (d.1955)
- August 6 – Leland Payson Bancroft, politician (d.1951)
- August 12 – Jacob Penner, politician (d.1965)
- August 29 – Marie-Louise Meilleur, supercentenarian, the oldest validated Canadian ever (d.1998)
- October 12 – Healey Willan, organist and composer (d.1968)
- October 27 – Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, businessman, politician and Governor General of Canada (d.1956)
Deaths- January 19 – James Westcott, American-born United States Senator from Florida from 1845 till 1849 (born 1802)
- February 6 – Edward Barron Chandler, politician (b.1800)
- May 9 – George Brown, journalist, politician and one of the Fathers of the Confederation (b.1818)
- June 12 – William Evan Price, businessman and politician (b.1827)
- October 8 – Caleb Hopkins, farmer and politician (b.1785)
- October 18 – Luc-Hyacinthe Masson, physician, businessman and politician (b.1811)
- December 8 – Charles Fisher, politician and 1st Premier of the Colony of New Brunswick (b.1808)
- December 24 – David Christie, politician (b.1818)
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