Events from the year 1870 in Canada.
Incumbents Crown Monarch – Victoria
Federal government Governor General – John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald Parliament – 1st
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. May 25 – Battle of Eccles Hill: Canadian Militia defeat Fenian raiders. May 27 – Battle of Trout River: British regulars and Canadian militia defeat Fenian raiders. 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. October – Battle of the Belly River: the Blackfoot Confederacy decisively defeats the Iron Confederacy. December 27 – The 1870 Manitoba election 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)
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