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1869 in Canada

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1869 in Canada

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Events from the year 1869 in Canada.

Incumbents

Some of the incumbents of 1869

Crown

  • Monarch – Victoria

Federal government

  • Governor General – Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck (until February 2) then John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar
  • Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald
  • Parliament – 1st

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

  • Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Lemuel Allan Wilmot
  • Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Charles Hastings Doyle
  • Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Pearce Howland
  • Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau

Premiers

  • Premier of New Brunswick – Andrew Rainsford Wetmore
  • Premier of Nova Scotia – William Annand
  • Premier of Ontario – John Sandfield Macdonald
  • Premier of Quebec – Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau

Events

  • February 2 – Lord Lisgar replaces Viscount Monck of Ballytrammon as Governor General
  • February 11 – Patrick James Whelan is hanged for the assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee
  • October 9 – Sir Francis Hincks becomes Minister of Finance
  • October 24 – The Canadian Illustrated News is founded in Montreal.
  • November 19 – The Deed of Surrender recognizes the purchase of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory from the Hudson's Bay Company: the lands are placed under the direct control of the Crown, but do not yet formally belong to Canada.

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  • Timothy Eaton opens his first store in Toronto
  • Newfoundland rejects Confederation with Canada
  • 1869 Newfoundland general election
  • Red River Rebellion begins
  • George Hunt founds Huntsville, Ontario
  • 1869 to 1870 – Smallpox epidemic strikes Canadian Plains tribes, including Blackfeet, Piegan, and Blood.
  • Maria Susan Rye began bringing groups of children from poorhouses and orphanages to Canada from England.

Sport

  • November 3 – Hamilton Tigers Canadian football team is founded

Births

Stephen Leacock
  • March 18 – Maude Abbott, physician (d.1940)
  • April 6 – Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, painter and sculptor (d.1937)
  • June 20 – William Donald Ross, financier, banker and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1947)
  • August 25 – Charles William Jefferys, artist and historian (d.1951)
  • November 25 – Herbert Greenfield, politician and 4th Premier of Alberta (d.1949)
  • December 18 – William Sanford Evans, politician (d.1950)
  • December 30 – Stephen Leacock, writer and economist (d.1944)

Deaths

John Redpath in 1836
  • February 11 – Patrick J. Whelan, tailor and alleged Fenian sympathizer executed following the 1868 assassination of Canadian journalist and politician Thomas D'Arcy McGee (b.1840)
  • March 5 – John Redpath, Scots-Quebecer businessman and philanthropist (b.1796)
  • August 1 – Louis-Charles Boucher de Niverville, lawyer and politician (b.1825)

References

References

  1. "Queen Victoria {{!}} The Canadian Encyclopedia".
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