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{{Unreferenced|date=December 2009}}{{Year box}}{{History of Canada}}Events from the year 1881 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 (until June 21) then Clement Francis Cornwall
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Joseph Édouard Cauchon
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Robert Duncan Wilmot
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Adams George Archibald
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – 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 (until December 3) then Edgar Dewdney
Events- January 17 – The Interprovincial Bridge connecting Ottawa to Hull, Quebec, opens
- February 16 – The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated
- April 4 – The 1881 census finds Canada's population to be 4,324,810
- May 24 – The overloaded steamer Victoria capsizes on the Thames River near London, Ontario, killing 182 people.
- December 2 – Quebec election: Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau's Conservatives win a majority
Full date unknown- Manitoba's boundaries are extended north, east and west. Ontario disputes the eastward extension.
Births- January 2 – Frederick Varley, artist and member of the Group of Seven (d.1969)
- January 20 – Fred Dixon, politician (d.1931)
- June 17 – Tommy Burns, only Canadian born world heavyweight champion boxer (d.1955)
- September 27 – James Ralston, lawyer, soldier, politician and Minister (d.1948)
- October 23 – Al Christie, film director, producer and screenwriter (d.1951)
- November 4 – Hector Authier, politician, lawyer and news reporter/announcer (d.1971)
- November 19 – Robert James Manion, politician (d.1943)
- December 20 – Télesphore-Damien Bouchard, politician (d.1962)
- December 29 – George Washington Kendall (d.1921)
- December 31 – Albert Sévigny, politician (d.1961)
Deaths- January 28 – Luc Letellier de St-Just, politician and 3rd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1820)
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