1899 in Canada
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Events from the year 1899 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Thomas Robert McInnes
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Colebrooke Patterson
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – George W. Howlan (until May 23) then Peter Adolphus McIntyre
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia – Charles Augustus Semlin
- Premier of Manitoba – Thomas Greenway
- Premier of New Brunswick – Henry Emmerson
- Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
- Premier of Ontario – Arthur Sturgis Hardy (until October 21) then George William Ross
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – Donald Farquharson
- Premier of Quebec – Félix-Gabriel Marchand
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- Commissioner of Yukon – William Ogilvie
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Colebrooke Patterson
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Amédée E. Forget
Premiers
- Premier of North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain
Events
- January 20 – About 2000 Doukhobors arrive in Halifax, Nova Scotia
- June 21 – Treaty No. 8 cedes much of northern Alberta to the Crown
- July 5 – 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 – The new City Hall building opens in Toronto.
- September 19 – A rock slide in Quebec City kills 45
- October 4 – First Canadian troops sent to an overseas war (Boer War)
- October 18 – Henri Bourassa resigns from cabinet to protest Canada's intervention in the Boer War
- October 21 – George William Ross becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Arthur S. Hardy
- October 30 – Second Boer War: The first Canadian troops arrive in South Africa
Arts and literature
Births
January to June
- January 5 – Hugh John Flemming, politician and 24th Premier of New Brunswick (d.1982)
- January 6 – Sonia Eckhardt-Gramatté, composer
- February 27 – Charles Best, medical scientist, co-discoverer of insulin (d.1978)
- March 14 – K. C. Irving, entrepreneur and industrialist (d.1992)
- May 26 – Antonio Barrette, politician and 18th Premier of Quebec (d.1968)
- May 27 – Dov Yosef, Canadian-born Israeli politician and statesman (d.1980)
July to December
- July 24 – Dan George, actor and author (d.1981)
- August 1 – F. R. Scott, poet, intellectual and constitutional expert (d.1985)
- October 2 – Juda Hirsch Quastel, biochemist (d.1987)
- October 3 – Adrien Arcand, journalist and fascist (d.1967)
- November 5 – Gilbert Layton, businessman and politician (d.1961)
- November 10 – Billy Boucher, ice hockey player (d.1958)
- November 17 – Douglas Shearer, sound designer and recording director (d.1971)
- November 30 – Edna Diefenbaker, first wife of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker (d.1951)
- December 24 – William Van Steenburgh, scientist
Deaths
- February 10 – Archibald Lampman, poet (b.1861)
- April 29 – George Frederick Baird, politician and lawyer (b.1851)
- July 31 – James David Edgar, politician (b.1841)
- August 29 – 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 – John William Dawson, geologist and university administrator (b.1820)
- December 13
- George Airey Kirkpatrick, politician (b.1841)
- Lucius Richard O'Brien, painter (b.1832)
Historical Documents
Missionary persuades Cree leader Yellow Bear to burn his "heathen idols" at Shoal Lake in Saskatchewan (Note: "bad spirit" and other stereotypes) [1]
Southern Tutchone man describes transfer of reindeer to Yukon from Alaska [2]
Official describes Indigenous and Metis people at Treaty 8 signing (Note: "wild men" and other stereotypes) [3]
Old woman in Fort Erie, Ontario tells of escaping slavery in Virginia with her parents and six siblings [4]
Mackenzie King realizes his parliamentary vocation at Westminster in London [5]
Oozing tar and leaking gas on Athabasca River near Fort McMurray [6]
Article on gold strike in northern Ontario [7]
Nurse treats feisty patients under horrible conditions in Dawson City's hospital [8]
Murals provided to new Toronto City Hall to encourage development of wall decoration [9]
Edison film of Whitehorse Rapids, Yukon River [10]
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References
- John Hines, The Red Indians of the Plains: Thirty Years' Missionary Experience in the Saskatchewan (1916), pgs. 296-300. Accessed 22 December 2019 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/3595/342.html
- Jimmy Kane, "The Reindeer Drive from Alaska" (Catharine McClellan, oral historian), My Old People's Stories; A Legacy for Yukon First Nations; Part I, Southern Tutchone Narrators (2007), pgs. 131-7. Accessed 29 March 2020 http://assets.yukonarchives.ca/McClellan_My_Old_Peoples_Stories_Part_1.pdf
- Charles Mair, Through the Mackenzie Basin: A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 (1908), pgs. 53-5. Accessed 22 December 2019 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2463/66.html
- Frank H. Severance, Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier (1899), pgs. 241-2. Accessed 24 February 2020 https://archive.org/details/oldtrailsniagara00severich/page/241/mode/1up/
- Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King, pg. 183. Accessed 22 December 2019 http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/politics-government/prime-ministers/william-lyon-mackenzie-king/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=2741&
- Charles Mair, "Chapter IX; The Athabasca River Region," Through the Mackenzie Basin: A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 (1908), pgs. 121-2, 127, 130-1. Accessed 22 December 2019 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2463/152.html
- "Seine River Wealth; The Golden Star Makes a Fabulously Rich Strike[....]" Rainy Lake Herald (March 9, 1899). Accessed 22 December 2019 http://www.fftimes.com/100-years-100-stories/seineriverwealth.html
- Georgie Powell, "Report from Miss Powell, District Superintendent in the Klondike," What Is the Use of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada? (1900), pgs. 39-40. Accessed 22 December 2019 http://archive.org/stream/cihm_07174#page/n47/mode/2up
- "Mural Decorations in the New Municipal Buildings, Toronto," The Canadian Architect and Builder, Vol. XII, Issue 5 (May 1899), pg. 98. Accessed 22 December 2019 http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/cab/search/imgdisplay.php?imgfile=../Volume%2012/Issue%205/v12n5p98.gif
- Thomas Crahan, production; Robert K. Bonine, camera; Thomas A. Edison, Inc. [sic], "White Horse Rapids." Accessed 22 December 2019 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/edmp.1198
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