1899 in Canada

January 20 – About 2000 Doukhobors arrive in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 7400 by year end.
May 5 – The village of Stirling, Alberta, NWT, is founded as a Mormon colony of 30 American settlers from Richfield, Utah, led by Theodore Brandley.
May 25 – A fire in Saint John, New Brunswick, destroys 150 buildings and renders over 1,000 people homeless.<ref name="AROR699">The American Monthly Review of Reviews (July 1899), pp. 25-29</ref>
June 21 – Treaty No. 8 cedes 840,000 km² to the Crown, located in British Columbia and the North-West Territories' districts of Alberta, Athabasca and Mackenzie.
July 5 – In 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 the Cape Colony.

Arts and literatureEdit

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BirthsEdit

January to JuneEdit

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 DecemberEdit

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

DeathsEdit

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)

Historical documentsEdit

Missionary persuades Cree leader Yellow Bear to burn his "heathen idols" at Shoal Lake in Saskatchewan (Note: "bad spirit" and other stereotypes)<ref>John Hines, The Red Indians of the Plains: Thirty Years' Missionary Experience in the Saskatchewan (1916), pgs. 296-300 Accessed 22 December 2019</ref>

Southern Tutchone man describes transfer of reindeer to Yukon from Alaska<ref>Jimmy Kane, "The Reindeer Drive from Alaska" (Catharine McClellan, oral historian), My Old People's Stories; A Legacy for Yukon First Nations; Part I Southern Tutchone Narrators (2007), pgs. 131-7. Accessed 29 March 2020</ref>

Official describes Indigenous and Metis people at Treaty 8 signing (Note: "wild men" and other stereotypes)<ref>Charles Mair, Through the Mackenzie Basin: A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 (1908), pgs. 53-5 Accessed 22 December 2019</ref>

Old woman in Fort Erie, Ontario tells of escaping slavery in Virginia with her parents and six siblings<ref>Frank H. Severance, Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier (1899), pgs. 241-2 Accessed 24 February 2020</ref>

Mackenzie King realizes his parliamentary vocation at Westminster in London<ref>Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King, pg. 183 Accessed 22 December 2019</ref>

Oozing tar and leaking gas on Athabasca River near Fort McMurray<ref>Charles Mair, "Chapter IX; The Athabasca River Region," Through the Mackenzie Basin: A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 (1908), pgs. 121-2, 127, 130-1 Accessed 22 December 2019 (See also photographs of oil derrick and tar banks along Athabasca)</ref>

Article on gold strike in northern Ontario<ref>"Seine River Wealth; The Golden Star Makes a Fabulously Rich Strike(....)" Rainy Lake Herald (March 9, 1899). Accessed 22 December 2019</ref>

Nurse treats feisty patients under horrible conditions in Dawson City's hospital<ref>Georgie Powell, "Report from Miss Powell, District Superintendent in the Klondike," What Is the Use of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada? (1900), pgs. 39-40 Accessed 22 December 2019</ref>

Murals provided to new Toronto City Hall to encourage development of wall decoration<ref>"Mural Decorations in the New Municipal Buildings, Toronto," The Canadian Architect and Builder, Vol. XII, Issue 5 (May 1899), pg. 98 Accessed 22 December 2019</ref>

Edison film of Whitehorse Rapids, Yukon River <ref>Thomas Crahan, production; Robert K. Bonine, camera; Thomas A. Edison, Inc. [sic], "White Horse Rapids" Accessed 22 December 2019</ref>

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