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Events from the year1899 in Canada.

• Monarch –Victoria^[1]

• Governor General –The 4th Earl of Minto
• Prime Minister –Wilfrid Laurier
• Chief Justice –Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario)
• Parliament –8th

• 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) thenPeter Adolphus McIntyre
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec –Louis-Amable Jetté

• 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) thenGeorge William Ross
• Premier of Prince Edward Island –Donald Farquharson
• Premier of Quebec –Félix-Gabriel Marchand

• Commissioner of Yukon –William Ogilvie

• Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin –James Colebrooke Patterson
• Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories –Amédée E. Forget

• Premier of North-West Territories –Frederick Haultain

• January 20 – About 2000Doukhobors arrive inHalifax, Nova Scotia, 7400 by year end.
• May 5 – The village ofStirling, Alberta, NWT, is founded as a Mormon colony of 30 American settlers fromRichfield, Utah, led byTheodore Brandley.
• May 25 – A fire inSaint John, New Brunswick, destroys 150 buildings and renders over 1,000 people homeless.^[2]
• June 21 –Treaty No. 8 cedes 840,000 km² to the Crown, located in British Columbia and the North-West Territories' districts ofAlberta,Athabasca andMackenzie.
• July 5 – InBrandon, Manitoba, housemaidHilda 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 newCity Hall building opens in Toronto.
• September 19 – Arock slide inQuebec 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 ofOntario, replacingArthur S. Hardy.
• October 30 –Second Boer War: The first Canadian troops arrive in theCape Colony.

• January 5 –Hugh John Flemming, politician and 24thPremier of New Brunswick (d.1982)
• January 6 –Sonia Eckhardt-Gramatté, composer
• February 27 –Charles Best, medical scientist, co-discoverer ofinsulin (d.1978)
• March 14 –K. C. Irving, entrepreneur and industrialist (d.1992)
• May 26 –Antonio Barrette, politician and 18thPremier of Quebec (d.1968)
• May 27 –Dov Yosef, Canadian-born Israeli politician and statesman (d.1980)

• 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 MinisterJohn Diefenbaker (d.1951)
• December 24 –William Van Steenburgh, scientist

• 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 aFather 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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