1880 in Canada

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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 an Ottawa street.
March 6 - The Royal Academy for the Arts is founded
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.
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, 25 million acres (100,000 km²), already completed sections free, all under-construction sections finished free, 20 year monopoly as only railroad and 20 year control over rate-setting.