1870 in Canada
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Events from the year 1870 in Canada.
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[edit] Events
- June-July - The 1870 New Brunswick election
- September 16 - Alfred Boyd becomes its first premier of Manitoba.
- December 27 - The 1870 Manitoba election
[edit] Arts and literature
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[edit] Births
- May 14 - Richard Langton Baker, politician (d.1951)
- May 21 - Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley, lawyer, politician and 20th Premier of New Brunswick (d.1947)
- June 18 - Howard Ferguson, politician and 9th Premier of Ontario (d.1946)
- July 3 - R. B. Bennett, lawyer, businessman, politician, philanthropist and 11th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1947)
- July 28 - Aubin-Edmond Arsenault, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1968)
- July 29 - George Dixon, boxer, first black world boxing champion in any weight class and first Canadian-born boxing champion (d.1908)
- September 7 - James Tompkins, priest and educator (d.1953)
- October 16 - Wallace Rupert Turnbull, engineer and inventor (d.1954)
- November 10 - Harlan Carey Brewster, politician and Premier of British Columbia (d.1918)
- December 15 - Richard McBride, politician and Premier of British Columbia (d.1917)
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- Thomas Langton Church, politician and Mayor of Toronto (d.1950)
[edit] Deaths
- February 6 - William MacBean George Colebrooke, lieutenant governor of New Brunswick (b.1787)
- March 31 - Thomas Cooke, missionary, and the first Bishop of Trois Rivières (b.1792)
- August 7 - François Lesieur Desaulniers, farmer and political figure (b.1785)
- October 13 - Charles-François Baillargeon, Archbishops of Quebec (b.1798)
- October 25 - Etienne-Michel Faillon, Catholic historian (b.1800)
- December 23 - Théophile Hamel, painter (b.1817)
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- Thomas Scott, Orangemen (b.1842)
