1899 in Canada
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Events from the year 1899 in Canada.
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Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia â Thomas Robert McInnes
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba â James Colebrooke Patterson
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick â Jabez Bunting Snowball
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia â Malachy Bowes Daly
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario â Oliver Mowat
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island â George W. Howlan (until May 23) then Peter Adolphus McIntyre
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec â Louis-Amable Jetté
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia â Charles Augustus Semlin
- Premier of Manitoba â Thomas Greenway
- Premier of New Brunswick â Henry Emmerson
- Premier of Nova Scotia â George Henry Murray
- Premier of Ontario â Arthur Sturgis Hardy (until October 21) then George William Ross
- Premier of Prince Edward Island â Donald Farquharson
- Premier of Quebec â Félix-Gabriel Marchand
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Events
- January 20 â About 2000 Doukhobors arrive in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 7400 by year end.
- May 5 â The village of Stirling, Alberta, NWT, is founded as a Mormon colony of 30 American settlers from Richfield, Utah, led by Theodore Brandley.
- May 25 â A fire in Saint John, New Brunswick, destroys 150 buildings and renders over 1,000 people homeless.[2]
- June 21 â Treaty No. 8 cedes 840,000 km2 to the Crown, located in British Columbia and the North-West Territories' districts of Alberta, Athabasca and Mackenzie.
- July 5 â In Brandon, Manitoba, housemaid Hilda Blake shoots her mistress twice; the first shot misses, but the second bullet pierces the mistress's right lung. Blake was later hanged for murder.
- September 18 â The new City Hall building opens in Toronto.
- September 19 â A rock slide in Quebec City kills 45.
- October 4 â First Canadian troops sent to an overseas war (Boer War).
- October 18 â Henri Bourassa resigns from cabinet to protest Canada's intervention in the Boer War.
- October 21 â George William Ross becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Arthur S. Hardy.
- October 30 â Second Boer War: The first Canadian troops arrive in the Cape Colony.
Births
January to June
- January 5 â Hugh John Flemming, politician and 24th Premier of New Brunswick (d.1982)
- January 6 â Sonia Eckhardt-Gramatté, composer
- February 27 â Charles Best, medical scientist, co-discoverer of insulin (d.1978)
- March 14 â K. C. Irving, entrepreneur and industrialist (d.1992)
- May 26 â Antonio Barrette, politician and 18th Premier of Quebec (d.1968)
- May 27 â Dov Yosef, Canadian-born Israeli politician and statesman (d.1980)
July to December
- July 24 â Dan George, actor and author (d.1981)
- August 1 â F. R. Scott, poet, intellectual and constitutional expert (d.1985)
- October 2 â Juda Hirsch Quastel, biochemist (d.1987)
- October 3 â Adrien Arcand, journalist and fascist (d.1967)
- November 5 â Gilbert Layton, businessman and politician (d.1961)
- November 10 â Billy Boucher, ice hockey player (d.1958)
- November 17 â Douglas Shearer, sound designer and recording director (d.1971)
- November 30 â Edna Diefenbaker, first wife of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker (d.1951)
- December 24 â William Van Steenburgh, scientist
Deaths
- February 10 â Archibald Lampman, poet (b.1861)
- April 29 â George Frederick Baird, politician and lawyer (b.1851)
- July 31 â James David Edgar, politician (b.1841)
- August 29 â Catharine Parr Traill, writer (b.1802)
- October 25
- Grant Allen, science writer, author and novelist (b.1848)
- Peter Mitchell, politician, Minister and a Father of Confederation (b.1824)
- November 19 â John William Dawson, geologist and university administrator (b.1820)
- December 13
- George Airey Kirkpatrick, politician (b.1841)
- Lucius Richard O'Brien, painter (b.1832)