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Events from the year1868 in Canada .
Provincial governments [ edit ] Lieutenant governors [ edit ] Louis Riel returns to theRed River area
January 16 —Octavia Ritchie , first woman to receive a medical degree inQuebec [1] January 22 —Adjutor Rivard , lawyer, writer, judge and linguist (died1945 ) February 16 —John Babington Macaulay Baxter , lawyer, jurist and 18thPremier of New Brunswick (died1946 ) March 14 —Emily Murphy , women's rights activist, jurist and author, first woman magistrate in Canada and in theBritish Empire (died1933 ) April 27 —James Kidd Flemming , businessman, politician and 13thPremier of New Brunswick (died1927 ) May 31 —Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire , politician and 11thGovernor General of Canada (died1938 ) January 19 —Frederic , Roman Catholic priest, missionary, and bishop (born1797 ) January 25 —Alexander Roberts Dunn , first Canadian awarded theVictoria Cross (born18 ) January 28 —Edmund Walker Head , Governor (born1805 ) February 19 —Dominick Daly , politician (born1798 ) April 7 —D'Arcy McGee , journalist, politician andFather of Confederation , assassinated (born1825 ) August 7 —William Agar Adamson , Church of England clergyman and author (born1800 ) September 12 —Charles Dickson Archibald , lawyer, businessman and politician (born1802 ) October 17 —Laura Secord , heroine of theWar of 1812 (born1775 ) Historical documents [ edit ] Political cartoon satirizes Nova Scotians'mixed feelings about Confederation[ 2]
Indigenous people assert claim to theirreserve at Lake of Two Mountains (Oka), Quebec [ 3]
"The moment was fraught with danger" -British spy addresses large rally ofFenians [ 4]
Report by a visitor to newly opened settler lands inMuskoka , Ontario[ 5]
In his last Commons speech,D'Arcy McGee lauds anyone "prepared[...]to sacrifice himself [for] principles[...]adopted as those of truth"[ 6]
Federal deputy minister of agriculture says connoisseur in France findsCanadian wine to bevin d'ordinaire second only to their own[ 7]
^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia" .www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved5 December 2022 .^ John Henry Walker,"Cross Roads. Shall We Go to Washington First, or How(e)?" (first published in Diogenes, November 20, 1868). Accessed 9 September 2018 ^ Indian Branch, Department of the Secretary of State for the Provinces,"List of Copies of Documents...." Return[...]of all Correspondence between the Government and the Iroquois Indians of Two Mountains[....] (1870), pgs. 2-3 (PDF pgs. 57-8), Algonquin and Nipissing Indians of Oka Collection, McGill (University) Library. Accessed 15 January 2020 ^ Henri Le Caron,Twenty-Five Years in the Secret Service; The Recollections of a Spy ^ "Visit to the Free Grant Lands of Canada" The (Tokomairiro, N.Z.) Bruce Herald, Vol. V, No. 238 (November 18, 1868), pg. 7. Accessed 9 September 2018^ "Mr. McGee's Last Speech" (April 6, 1868), House of Commons Debates; First Session - First Parliament, pg. 468. Accessed 18 April 2021^ "Report of the Select Committee on the Cultivation of the Vine in Canada; Minutes of Evidence" Appendix (No. 6), House of Commons Journals, 1st Parliament, 1st Session: Vol. 1 (1868), pgs. A6-1–A6-2. Accessed 12 July 2020
1868 in North America
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