1899 in Canada
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (January 2020) |
| |||||
| Decades: | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| See also: | |||||
.svg)
| Part of a series on the |
| History of Canada |
|---|
 |
Events from the year 1899 in Canada.
Incumbents
[edit]Crown
[edit]Federal government
[edit]- Governor General – The 4th Earl of Minto
- Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
- Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario)
- Parliament – 8th
Provincial governments
[edit]Lieutenant governors
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Commissioners
[edit]Lieutenant governors
[edit]- Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Colebrooke Patterson
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Amédée E. Forget
Premiers
[edit]Events
[edit]- January 20 – About 2000 Doukhobors arrive in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 7400 by year end.
- May 5 – 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 – A fire in Saint John, New Brunswick, destroys 150 buildings and renders over 1,000 people homeless.[2]
- June 21 – 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 – 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 – 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 the Cape Colony.
Arts and literature
[edit]![[icon]](/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg){kind=small} | This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (July 2010) |
Births
[edit]January to June
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Missionary persuades Cree leader Yellow Bear to burn his "heathen idols" at Shoal Lake in Saskatchewan (Note: "bad spirit" and other stereotypes)[3]
Southern Tutchone man describes transfer of reindeer to Yukon from Alaska[4]
Official describes Indigenous and Metis people at Treaty 8 signing (Note: "wild men" and other stereotypes)[5]
Old woman in Fort Erie, Ontario tells of escaping slavery in Virginia with her parents and six siblings[6]
Mackenzie King realizes his parliamentary vocation at Westminster in London[7]
Oozing tar and leaking gas on Athabasca River near Fort McMurray[8]
Article on gold strike in northern Ontario[9]
Nurse treats feisty patients under horrible conditions in Dawson City's hospital[10]
Murals provided to new Toronto City Hall to encourage development of wall decoration[11]
Edison film of Whitehorse Rapids, Yukon River [12]
References
[edit]- ^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ^ The American Monthly Review of Reviews (July 1899), pp. 25-29
- ^ John Hines, The Red Indians of the Plains: Thirty Years' Missionary Experience in the Saskatchewan (1916), pgs. 296-300 Accessed 22 December 2019
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ Frank H. Severance, Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier (1899), pgs. 241-2 Accessed 24 February 2020
- ^ Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King, pg. 183 Accessed 22 December 2019
- ^ 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 (See also photographs of oil derrick and tar banks along Athabasca)
- ^ "Seine River Wealth; The Golden Star Makes a Fabulously Rich Strike(....)" Rainy Lake Herald (March 9, 1899). Accessed 22 December 2019
- ^ 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
- ^ "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
- ^ Thomas Crahan, production; Robert K. Bonine, camera; Thomas A. Edison, Inc. [sic], "White Horse Rapids" Accessed 22 December 2019
| Year list (Timeline) | |
|---|---|
| Topics | |
| Provinces and territories | |
| Cities | |
| Research | |
