1869 in Canada
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Events from the year 1869 in Canada.
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Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
- Governor General â Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck (until February 2) then John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar
- Prime Minister â John A. Macdonald
- Parliament â 1st
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Events
- February 2 â Lord Lisgar replaces Viscount Monck of Ballytrammon as Governor General
- February 11 â Patrick James Whelan is hanged for the assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- October 9 â Sir Francis Hincks becomes Minister of Finance
- October 24 â The Canadian Illustrated News is founded in Montreal.
- November 19 â 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 â 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 â Hamilton Tigers Canadian football team is founded
Births
- March 18 â Maude Abbott, physician (d.1940)
- April 6 â Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, painter and sculptor (d.1937)
- June 20 â William Donald Ross, financier, banker and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1947)
- August 25 â Charles William Jefferys, artist and historian (d.1951)
- November 25 â Herbert Greenfield, politician and 4th Premier of Alberta (d.1949)
- December 18 â William Sanford Evans, politician (d.1950)
- December 30 â Stephen Leacock, writer and economist (d.1944)
Deaths
- February 11 â 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 â John Redpath, Scots-Quebecer businessman and philanthropist (b.1796)
- August 1 â Louis-Charles Boucher de Niverville, lawyer and politician (b.1825)
