Moncton's economic depression did not last long and a second era of prosperity came to the area in 1871 when Moncton was selected to be the headquarters of the Intercolonial Railway of Canada ( ICR ).

As part of British Columbia's 1871 agreement to join Canadian Confederation, the government had agreed to build the Canadian Pacific Railway, a transcontinental railway linking the Pacific Province to the eastern provinces.

All three companies were operated by and absorbed into the London and North Western Railway by 1871.

* 1871 Houston and Texas Central Railway completes track to Austin.

In 1871, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway extended a main line from Emporia to Newton.

In 1871, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway extended a main line from Emporia to Newton.

In 1871, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway extended a main line from Emporia to Newton.

The Texas and Pacific Railway was chartered by the United States Congress in 1871 to build a southern transcontinental railroad.

In 1871, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway built a main line east-west through Cedar Grove.

In 1871, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway built a main line east-west through Elmdale.

In 1871, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway extended a main line from Emporia westward to Newton by July 1871.

B. Corbett and V. Harbaugh, leaders of a colony from Ohio, founded Bunker Hill at a site on the Kansas Pacific Railway in the summer of 1871.

The Western Maryland Railway built its main railroad line to Thurmont in 1871, connecting the town with Baltimore, and later with Hagerstown and Cumberland.

After construction was complete, The Holly, Wayne and Monroe Railway merged into the Flint and Pere Marquette system, May 30, 1871.

The arrival of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway in 1871 marked the decline of Carver's importance, as cargo and passenger traffic quickly shifted to the new mode of transportation.

The town went through six quick name changes after 1871 until, in 1872, it was finally named after Thomas Hawley Canfield, an officer in the Northern Pacific Railway, which laid out the town.

All three towns appeared on the map in 1871, though Bigelow remained nothing more than that-a spot on a map-until the spring of 1872, when the tracks of the St. Paul & Sioux City Railway reached the site of the present-day town.

When a route for the St. Paul and Sioux City Railway was surveyed in 1871, it was located far south of the Graham Lakes region.

In December 1871 the state of Minnesota granted all odd numbered sections of land extending along the proposed right-of-way of the St. Paul & Sioux City Railway Company to that company.

He later became postmaster and town depot agent for the new Atlanta and Richmond Air Line Railway, which was constructed in 1871.

In 1871, when the Houston and Texas Central Railway was planned through the area, Longbotham sold the right of way for five dollars.

The city itself was founded in 1871 when the Houston and Texas Central Railway came to the area.

Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858 and, in 1871, it became the sixth province of Canada.

Canada, a nascent country with a population of 3. 5 million in 1871, lacked the practical means to exercise meaningful de facto control within the de jure political boundaries of the recently acquired Rupert's Land -- building a transcontinental railway was national policy of high order in changing this situation.

He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr. ( 1804 – 96, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia, Canada ) and Nancy Matthews Elliott ( 1810 – 1871, born in Chenango County, New York ).

On May 1, 1871, the Government of Canada established the Meteorological Service of Canada by providing a $ 5000 grant to Professor G. T. Kingston of the University of Toronto to establish a network of weather observations.

The two colonies were amalgamated in 1866 to cut costs, and joined the Dominion of Canada in 1871.

Prior to joining Canada in 1871, B. C.

British Columbia joined Canada July 20, 1871, by Act of Parliament ( and encouraged to join by Sir John A. Macdonald's promise of a railway within 10 years ).

Winsor's exact place and year of birth are uncertain — he claimed to have been born in Spring Lake, Michigan in 1871, but his gravestone says 1869, and census reports state that he was born in Canada in 1867.

In 1871, the county was expanded to include much of the territory in what is now eastern North Dakota from Canada to the South Dakota border.

Canada requested a survey after British Columbia united with it in 1871, but the idea was rejected by the United States as being too costly, given the area's remoteness, sparse settlement, and limited economic or strategic interest.

By October 1871 the line was completed from Mattawamkeag to Vanceboro where it connected through to Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.

This line was opened by U. S. President Ulysses S. Grant and Governor General of Canada Lord Lisgar during a ceremony at the border in October 1871.

In 1871, President Grant's appointed Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, worked out an agreement with British representative Sir John Rose in Washington to create a commission consisting of six members from the British Empire and six members from the United States to resolve the Alabama claims, refinancing, and other international disputes between Canada and the United States by treaty. On March 8, 1871 the Treaty of Washington was signed at the State Department and the United States Senate ratified the treaty on May 24, 1871. According to the treaty, an international arbitration tribunal met in Geneva.

The Officer's Barracks, built in 1831 by the British Army, has been the residence of the Governor General of Canada since 1871.

In 1866, the two were reunited as British Columbia and, in 1871, this became a province of the Dominion of Canada.

* John L. Connolly ( 1871 – 1933 ), merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada

* 1871 20 July-British Columbia joins Canada, which takes over postal services.

Of the tobogganing, Lieutenant William Galwey, a member of the survey team that laid out the Canada – United States border and later visited Rideau Hall in November 1871, said: " It is a most favourite amusement at Government House.

Born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1871, the year British Columbia joined Canada, Emily Carr was the second-youngest of six children born to English parents Richard and Emily ( Saunders ) Carr.

* The Fenian raids, based in the United States, also targeted Canada between 1866 and 1871.