1869 in Canada
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Events from the year 1869 in Canada.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Prime Minister - John A. Macdonald
- Governor General - Viscount Monck of Ballytrammon then Lord Lisgar
- Premier of New Brunswick - Andrew Wetmore
- Premier of Nova Scotia - William Annand
- Premier of Ontario - J.S. Macdonald
- Premier of Quebec - Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau
[edit] 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.
[edit] Full date unknown
- Timothy Eaton opens his first store in Toronto
- Newfoundland rejects Confederation with Canada
- 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 poorhouse and orphaned children to Canada from England.
[edit] 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)
- 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)
