The
World
1876: Battle of Little Bighorn, June 25 and 26. A combined
Lakota,
Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho force, overwhelms the 7th Cavalry
Regiment of the United States.
1876: Alexander Graham Bell successfully transmits the first
bi-directional transmission of clear speech. An improved design for the
“telephone” was patented the next year.
Canada
1874
The newly created Northwest Mounted Police march west from Dufferin,
Manitoba, on passing the Turtle Mountains they have a brief glimpse of
some of the Minnesota Sioux and their white captives.
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Manitoba
1870: May 12: The Manitoba Act: The Province of Manitoba enters
Confederation largely on terms put forward by Louis Riel
1871: Manitoba Public Schools Act passed, providing for the creation of
publicly tax-supported Protestant and Roman Catholic school systems
1874: July 31 – The first Russian Mennonites arrive at Winnipeg on the
steamer International.
1875: Icelanders arrive in Winnipeg en route for a settlement near
Gimli just beyond Manitoba’s then-northern boundary
1877: Manitoba’s first railway locomotive, The Countess of Dufferin,
arrives in Winnipeg via steamboat
1878: December 4 – the first freight by rail reached St.
Boniface. First export of wheat from the prairies
1879: First grain elevator built in Niverville. Telephone links
Winnipeg and Selkirk
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