1868 in Canada

Events from the year 1868 in Canada.

Incumbents

Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Francis Pym Harding (until July 23) then Lemuel Allan Wilmot
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Charles Hastings Doyle
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Henry William Stisted (until July 15) then William Pearce Howland
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau

Secretary of State for the Colonies – The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos then The Earl Granville

Colonial Governor of Newfoundland – Anthony Musgrave
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – George Dundas (until October 22) then Robert Hodgson
Governor of the Colony of British Columbia – Frederick Seymour

March 4 — Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario established
April 7 — Father of Confederation Thomas D'Arcy McGee is assassinated in Ottawa by Irish Fenians.
May 26 - The Canadian flag is unofficially introduced.

Louis Riel returns to the Red River area

The Hudson's Bay Company agrees to turn Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory over to Canada
The first Federal Militia Act is passed, creating a Canadian army
George-Étienne Cartier created a Baronet

January 16 — Octavia Ritchie, first woman to receive a medical degree in Quebec[http://www.canadianencyclopedia.ca/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006850]
January 22 — Adjutor Rivard, lawyer, writer, judge and linguist (died 1945)
February 16 — John Babington Macaulay Baxter, lawyer, jurist and 18th Premier of New Brunswick (died 1946)
March 14 — Emily Murphy, women's rights activist, jurist and author, first woman magistrate in Canada and in the British Empire (died 1933)
April 27 — James Kidd Flemming, businessman, politician and 13th Premier of New Brunswick (died 1927)
May 31 — Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, politician and 11th Governor General of Canada (died 1938)

July 8 — Henry Cockshutt, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (died 1944)
July 9 — William Alves Boys, politician and barrister (died 1938)
August 25 — Arthur Puttee, politician (died 1957)
August 26 — Charles Stewart, politician and 3rd Premier of Alberta (died 1946)
September 1 — Henri Bourassa, politician and publisher (died 1952)
September 22 — Louise McKinney, first woman sworn into the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and first woman elected to a legislature in Canada and in the British Empire (died 1931)
September 28 — Herbert Alexander Bruce, surgeon and 15th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (died 1963)
November 9 — Marie Dressler, actress (died 1934)
December 11 — William Parks, geologist and paleontologist (died 1936)

January 19 — Frederic, Roman Catholic priest, missionary, and bishop (born 1797)
January 25 — Alexander Roberts Dunn, first Canadian awarded the Victoria Cross (born 18)
January 28 — Edmund Walker Head, Governor (born 1805)
February 19 — Dominick Daly, politician (born 1798)
April 7 — D'Arcy McGee, journalist, politician and Father of Confederation, assassinated (born 1825)
August 7 — William Agar Adamson, Church of England clergyman and author (born 1800)
September 12 — Charles Dickson Archibald, lawyer, businessman and politician (born 1802)
October 17 — Laura Secord, heroine of the War of 1812 (born 1775)