1899 in Canada

• January 20 – About 2000 Doukhobors arrive in Halifax, Nova Scotia
• June 21 – Treaty No. 8 cedes much of northern Alberta to the Crown
• 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. 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 South Africa

• 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)

Missionary persuades Cree leader Yellow Bear to burn his "heathen idols" at Shoal Lake in Saskatchewan (Note: "bad spirit" and other stereotypes) [1]

Southern Tutchone man describes transfer of reindeer to Yukon from Alaska [2]

Official describes Indigenous and Metis people at Treaty 8 signing (Note: "wild men" and other stereotypes) [3]

Old woman in Fort Erie, Ontario tells of escaping slavery in Virginia with her parents and six siblings [4]

Mackenzie King realizes his parliamentary vocation at Westminster in London [5]

Oozing tar and leaking gas on Athabasca River near Fort McMurray [6]

Article on gold strike in northern Ontario [7]

Nurse treats feisty patients under horrible conditions in Dawson City's hospital [8]

Murals provided to new Toronto City Hall to encourage development of wall decoration [9]

Edison film of Whitehorse Rapids, Yukon River [10]