Events January 22 - Federal election: Alexander Mackenzie's Liberals win a majority February - 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. Births December 17 - William Lyon Mackenzie King Deaths
