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Events from the year 1887 in Canada.
Senate committee suggests seeding North-West with wild rice, developing bison hybrid, and preserving food using Indigenous ways[2]
Senate debate on North-West Territories growth blames decades of delay on British ignorance (Note: "Indians" and "civilize" stereotypes)[3]
Canadian Pacific Railway offers land seekers $25 return fare to Winnipeg, with option to go on westward (and fare refunded if 160 acres purchased)[4]
Statistical snapshot of Ontario, with note on reciprocity with U.S.[5]
Royal commission hears that labour and small business in Toronto are squeezed by increasing competition and rising rents[6]
"A blot on our Statute Book" - Sen. William Johnston Almon against Chinese head tax law penalizing any immigrant with "yellow skin and an almond eye"[7]
Opposition Leader Wilfrid Laurier comments on "cancer of emigration" to United States[8]