1870 in Canada

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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.
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[]

Births[]

Howard Ferguson

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)

R. B. Bennett

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

[1] D'Arcy G. Vermette, "II.a.The Lists of Rights and Metis Demands," Beyond Doctrines of Dominance, pgs. 108-9. Accessed 21 September 2018

[2] "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

[3] 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

[4] 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

[5] 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

[6] Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873; Monday, December 5, 1870, pgs. 15-18. Accessed 10 September 2018

[7] 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

[8] John William Dawson, Science Education Abroad, a Lecture; Being the Annual University Lecture of the Session 1870-71. Accessed 10 September 2018

[9] 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

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