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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.
  • May 25 – Battle of Eccles Hill: Canadian Militia defeat Fenian raiders.
  • May 27 – Battle of Trout River: British regulars and Canadian militia defeat Fenian raiders.
  • 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.
  • October – Battle of the Belly River: the Blackfoot Confederacy decisively defeats the Iron Confederacy.
  • December 27 – The 1870 Manitoba election

Births

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  • 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)

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  • 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)

References