* 1882 – Athanase David, Canadian lawyer, politician, and businessman ( d. 1953 )

* 1882 – Robert Lane, Canadian football player ( d. 1940 )

Returning to the United States, McGuire and the Knights of Labor organised a similar parade based on the Canadian event on September 5, 1882 in New York City, USA.

* 1963 – Robert Kerr, Canadian sprinter ( b. 1882 )

* 1803 – Egerton Ryerson, Canadian educator and politician ( d. 1882 )

* 1940 – Robert Lane, Canadian football player ( b. 1882 )

* April 26 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet ( b. 1882 )

** Robert Kerr, Canadian sprinter ( b. 1882 )

* December 15 – Edward Earle, Canadian actor ( b. 1882 )

It takes its name from the Ontario Model Colony development established in 1882 by the Canadian engineer George Chaffey and his brothers William Chaffey and Charles Chaffey.

* John Christie Holland ( born 1882 ), Canadian pastor and the first Canadian of African heritage to be named a " Citizen of the Year "

* Joseph Jackson ( Canadian politician ) ( 1831 – 1908 ), Canadian Member of Parliament for Norfolk South, 1882 – 1887

The town of Fleming, Saskatchewan ( located on the Canadian Pacific Railway ) was named in his honour in 1882.

He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal Member of Parliament and served from 1882 to 1905.

Appointed to the Canadian Senate in 1867, he was a judge of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia from 1873 to 1882.

The Group of Seven — sometimes known as the Algonquin school — were a group of Canadian landscape painters from 1920 to 1933, originally consisting of Franklin Carmichael ( 1890 – 1945 ), Lawren Harris ( 1885 – 1970 ), A. Y. Jackson ( 1882 – 1972 ), Frank Johnston ( 1888 – 1949 ), Arthur Lismer ( 1885 – 1969 ), J. E. H. MacDonald ( 1873 – 1932 ), and Frederick Varley ( 1881 – 1969 ).

Robert Nathaniel Dett ( 1882 – 1943 ) was among the first Black Canadian composers during the early years of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

The city started as a major junction on the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Assiniboine River and was then incorporated in 1882.

* Jack Winchester ( born 1882 ), Canadian professional ice hockey

* Dr. John G. FitzGerald ( 1882 – 1940 ), Canadian physician

Sir Hugh Allan, KCMG ( September 29, 1810 – December 9, 1882 ) was a Scottish-born Canadian shipping magnate, financier and capitalist.

Following the 1882 election, Prime Minister Macdonald nominated Kirkpatrick as Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons.

* 1882 – War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1, 300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.

* 1882 – The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.

* In 1882 the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway connected Atchison, Kansas with the Southern Pacific Railroad at Deming, New Mexico, thus completing a second link to Los Angeles.

In 1882, the Texas and Pacific Railway began providing service to San Angelo, and settlers started coming into the region in somewhat larger numbers.

Holbrook was founded in 1881 or 1882, when the railroad was built, and named to honor the first chief engineer of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad.

The community was established as a siding of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, later known as the Santa Fe Railroad, in October 1882.

Paramore ’ s Texas & Saint Louis Railway ( later the Cotton Belt ) and Gould ’ s St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway ( later the Missouri Pacific ) intersected here in 1882.

The crossing was installed in 1882 by the California Southern Railroad to cross the Southern Pacific Railroad ’ s tracks while building northward from San Diego.

The Pacific Coast Railway ( narrow gauge ) came to town in 1882, and trains ran through Nipomo until The Great Depression in the 1930s.

The turning point in the early history of the community was in 1882, with the arrival of the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific Railroad ( controlled by the Union Pacific ) linking Greeley and Fort Collins.

After several rough and tumble years of growth Pacific Junction was incorporated in 1882.

In 1882, with the county seat in Westmoreland and the Union Pacific Railroad built through Wamego, the town's population swiftly declined.

After the Little Falls and Dakota Railroad was completed in 1882, there was a sidetrack to a mill, called Flen's Landing or Flynn's Siding, with a depot and named for J. C. Flynn of Little Falls, a teacher in the Little Falls schools in the late 1870s ; later he was an inspector for the Northern Pacific Railroad and a representative in the state legislature.

Starbuck was platted in the spring of 1882, is a village of the Northern Pacific railway, adjoining the western end of Lake Minnewaska.

In July 1882 when Northern Pacific Railway contractors arrived the trading post was renamed ‘’ Clark City ’’ for contractor Heman Clark.

in 1882, Thomas Alexander traded land to the Northern Pacific Railway to start the town, and developed four buildings on main street.

The Northern Pacific Railroad arrived in 1882, connecting the town to the new city of Billings.

Taylor was founded in 1882 along the transcontinental rail line of the Northern Pacific Railway.

Valentine's name refers to the date of its founding in 1882 by a Southern Pacific Railroad construction crew: February 14.

In 1882 Chile refused US mediation in the War of the Pacific.

On his return to Germany from his 1879 – 1882 Pacific expedition, Otto Finsch joined a small, informal group interested in German colonial expansion into the South Seas led by the banker, Adolph von Hansemann.