1869 in Canada
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| Years in Canada: | 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 |
| Centuries: | 18th century · 19th century · 20th century |
| Decades: | 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s |
| Years: | 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 |
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Events from the year 1869 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
- Head of state (monarch) – Queen Victoria (consort – Vacant)
Federal government
- Governor general – Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck (until February 2) then John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar (viceregal consort – Elizabeth Monck, Viscountess Monck then Adelaide Dalton)
- Prime minister – John A. Macdonald
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- 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 New Brunswick – Andrew Rainsford Wetmore
- Premier of Nova Scotia – William Annand
- Premier of Ontario – John Sandfield Macdonald
- Premier of Quebec – Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau
Events
- February 2 - Lord Lisgar replaces Viscount Monck of Ballytrammon as Governor General
- February 11 - Patrick James Whelan is hanged for the assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- October 9 - Sir Francis Hincks becomes Minister of Finance
- October 24 - The Canadian Illustrated News is founded in Montreal.
- November 19 - The Deed of Surrender recognizes the purchase of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory from the Hudson's Bay Company: the lands are placed under the direct control of the Crown, but do not yet formally belong to Canada.
Full date unknown
- Timothy Eaton opens his first store in Toronto
- Newfoundland rejects Confederation with Canada
- Newfoundland general election, 1869
- Red River Rebellion begins
- George Hunt founds Huntsville, Ontario
- 1869 to 1870 - Smallpox epidemic strikes Canadian Plains tribes, including Blackfeet, Piegan, and Blood.
- Maria Susan Rye began bringing groups of children from poorhouses and orphanages to Canada from England.
Births
- March 18 - Maude Abbott, physician (d.1940)
- April 6 - Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, painter and sculptor (d.1937)
- June 20 - William Donald Ross, financier, banker and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1947)
- August 25 - Charles William Jefferys, artist and historian (d.1951)
- November 25 - Herbert Greenfield, politician and 4th Premier of Alberta (d.1949)
- December 18 - William Sanford Evans, politician (d.1950)
- December 30 - Stephen Leacock, writer and economist (d.1944)
Deaths
- March 5 - John Redpath, Scots-Quebecer businessman and philanthropist (b.1796)
- August 1 - Louis-Charles Boucher de Niverville, lawyer and politician (b.1825)
Full date unknown
- Patrick J. Whelan, tailor and alleged Fenian sympathizer executed following the 1868 assassination of Canadian journalist and politician Thomas D'Arcy McGee (b.1840)
