1869 in Canada explained

Events from the year 1869 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Victoria^[1]

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Queen Victoria The Canadian Encyclopedia . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . 5 December 2022.
2. 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
3. http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/543/114.html Letter of December 8, 1869 to Lieutenant-Governor William MacDougall
4. Frances Anne Hopkins, "Canoes in a Fog, Lake Superior" (1869), Glenbow Museum. Accessed 18 May 2022