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Events from the year 1869 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
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.
Full date unknown
- 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
- 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
- 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)
Historical documents
Ottawa Board of Trade assesses the Northwest's commercial potential[2]
Red River resident finds those who are opposed to the Metis provisional government are unwilling to resist it[3]
Painting: Hudson's Bay Company canoes on Lake Superior[4]
References
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- ↑ Ottawa Board of Trade, Report of the Council of the Board of Trade of Ottawa on the Settlement of the North-West (1869), pgs. 7-12. Accessed 10 September 2018
- ↑ Letter of December 8, 1869 to Lieutenant-Governor William MacDougall in Correspondence and Papers Connected with Recent Occurrences in the North-West Territories (1870), pg. 97. Accessed 10 September 2018
- ↑ Frances Anne Hopkins, "Canoes in a Fog, Lake Superior" (1869), Glenbow Museum. Accessed 18 May 2022
