← → Events from the year 1888 in Canada.

House of Commons committee hears of cartels conspiring to control products ranging from groceries to coal to stoves and coffins[2] Sandford Fleming's ideas on telegraph line to Australia[3] Indenture form between "Guardian" and caretaker/employer who agrees to pay immigrant boy and give him "good clothing and schooling" etc.

for work[4] U.S. Supreme Court rules on Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent in light of previous invention claimed by "a poor mechanic"[5] Brief visit to Chinatown temple in Victoria, B.C.

[6] In report on northern lands, Senate committee points out unwanted wildlife loss from "greater ease in their capture" and use of poison[7] Lecturer describes dogs of Hudson Strait Inuit[8]