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During this year, Canada split up jurisdiction over marriage with the British North American Act. The federal government had control over marriage/divorce and provinces had control over ceremonies, marital property rights, post divorce, and remarriage.

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This was the year of a major step towards gender equality in Canada, where wives were given the right to earn and control their own wages. Before, they had to give over all of their earnings to their husbands. Now, women have many more rights and control any things they own and make.

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In 1887 the federal order-in-council began recognizing indigenous marriages. Now, these couples did not have to go the Christian way to wed each other any longer, they could do it within their own culture. All cultures today are able to celebrate their marriages in any way they wish to.

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The marriage and divorce act let Canadian women divorce men due to adultery. Before this, they had to prove that their husbands weren't only cheating, but also participating in sodomy, bestiality, rape, and other unlawful acts. Today women and men can divorce with little effort at all and with little reasoning.

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This is the year that Canada's first legal same-sex marriage occurred. The number of same-sex marriages have been increasing over the years and people are constantly welcomed to marry whomever they please.

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Gay marriage became legal across all of Canada with the passing of the gender-neutral Civil marriage act on July 20th. Although it is legal, there are still people who discriminate against same-sex couples to this day.

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A new Family Law Act gave common-law partners who were living together for two years or more the same rights as married spouses, which included the mandatory sharing of properties and debts that they had during the relationship.