1899 in Canada
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Events from the year 1899 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
- Head of state (monarch) – Queen Victoria (consort – Vacant)
Federal government
- Governor general – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (viceregal consort – Mary Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Countess 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
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Events
- January 20 – About 2000 Doukhobors arrive in Halifax, Nova Scotia
- June 21 – Treaty No. 8 cedes much of northern Alberta to the federal government
- July 5 – Brandon, Manitoba housemaid Hilda Blake shoots her mistress twice; the first shot misses, but the second bullet pierces the mistress's right lung.
- 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 South Africa
- November 4 – The fourth election of the North-West Legislative Assembly
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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