1870 in Canada
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Events from the year 1870 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Adams George Archibald (from May 20)
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Lemuel Allan Wilmot
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Charles Hastings Doyle
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Pearce Howland
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau
Premiers
- Premier of Manitoba – Alfred Boyd (from September 16)
- Premier of New Brunswick – Andrew Rainsford Wetmore (until June 9) then George Edwin King
- Premier of Nova Scotia – William Annand
- Premier of Ontario – John Sandfield Macdonald
- Premier of Quebec – Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories – William McDougall (until May 10) then Adams George Archibald
Events
- March 4 – Thomas Scott is executed by Riel's provisional government in the Red River Colony.
- May 12 – The Canadian Parliament's Manitoba Act receives royal assent. The act provides for the establishment of the province Manitoba when Rupert's Land is transferred to Canada.
- June–July – The 1870 New Brunswick election
- July 15 – The British Privy Council's Rupert's Land and North-Western Territory Order transfers those territories to Canada, and Manitoba and the North-West Territories are established.
- August 24 – The Wolseley expedition arrives at Upper Fort Garry, Manitoba
- September 16 – Alfred Boyd becomes the first premier of Manitoba.
- December 27 – The 1870 Manitoba election
Arts and literature
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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.1909)
- 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)
- November 17 – Jean Prévost, politician (d. 1915)
- December 15 – Richard McBride, politician and Premier of British Columbia (d.1917)
Full date unknown
- Thomas Langton Church, politician and Mayor of Toronto (d.1950)
Deaths
- February 6 – William MacBean George Colebrooke, lieutenant governor of New Brunswick (b.1787)
- March 4 – Thomas Scott, Orangemen (b.1842)
- 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)
Historical documents
Metis List of Rights calls for Rupert's Land and the Northwest to become the Province of Assiniboia[1]
President Louis Riel gives his first speech to the Red River provisional government[2]
Doubtful about Louis Riel, Prime Minister Macdonald begins assembling a military force[3]
MP praises liberal approach in creating Manitoba in House of Commons speech[4]
Red River resident objects to amnesty for Louis Riel and other leaders[5]
President Grant calls Canada unfriendly to U.S. fishers and shippers[6]
Call for a state-supported "Dominion University" in Canada[7]
McGill University's John William Dawson on science education abroad and its application to Canada[8]
Reports of smallpox among Blackfoot, Cree and other nations[9]
References
- ^ D'Arcy G. Vermette, "II.a.The Lists of Rights and Metis Demands," Beyond Doctrines of Dominance, pgs. 108-9. Accessed 21 September 2018
- ^ "Provisional Government; First Council Meeting; Speech of the President" The New Nation, Winnipeg, Vol. I, No. 10 (March 11, 1870), pg. 2. Accessed 20 September 2018
- ^ Joseph Pope, Memoirs of the Right Honourable Sir John Alexander Macdonald, G.C.B., First Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada (1894), pgs. 62-3. Accessed 10 September 2018
- ^ Adams George Archibald, Speech Delivered in the House of Commons by the Hon. A.G. Archibald, during the Debate on the "Manitoba Bill," May 7, 1870 (1870). Accessed 10 September 2018
- ^ Letter in "Report of the Select Committee on the Causes of the Difficulties in the North-West Territory in 1869-70," Journals of the House of Commons 1874, Vol. 8, Appendix 6, pg. 195. Accessed 10 September 2018
- ^ Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873; Monday, December 5, 1870, pgs. 15-18. Accessed 10 September 2018
- ^ R.G. (Robert Grant) Haliburton, Mr. Haliburton's Speech on the Young Men of the New Dominion; from the Ottawa Citizen, January 27, 1870. Accessed 10 September 2018
- ^ John William Dawson, Science Education Abroad, a Lecture; Being the Annual University Lecture of the Session 1870-71. Accessed 10 September 2018
- ^ William Francis Butler, Report by Lieutenant Butler, 69th Regt., of His Journey from Fort Garry to Rocky Mountain House and Back (1871), pgs. 9-12. Accessed 11 September 2018
