Donate to Canadian History Ehx at Some amazing Canadians were born this year, and a lot of political things would happen as Canada moved into the latter part of the 1880s. On Jan. 21, Georges Vezina is born in Quebec. He would go on to become one of...
Sir John A. Macdonald and his Conservatives would once again go up against Edward Blake and the Liberals five years after the 1882 election. As with the 1882 election, there was little in the way of a lively competition between the two parties. The...