Events from the year 1899 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown Monarch – Victoria
Federal government Governor General – The 4th Earl of Minto Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario) Parliament – 8th
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors 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 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
Commissioners Commissioner of Yukon – William Ogilvie
Lieutenant governors Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Colebrooke Patterson Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Amédée E. Forget
Premiers Premier of North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain
Events 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.The American Monthly Review of Reviews (July 1899), pp. 25-29 June 21 – Treaty No. 8 cedes 840,000 km 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. Births
January to June 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 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 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)
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