1870 in Canada
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Years in Canada: | 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 |
Centuries: | 18th century · 19th century · 20th century |
Decades: | 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s |
Years: | 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 |
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Events from the year 1870 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
- Head of state (monarch) – Queen Victoria (consort – Vacant)
Federal government
- Governor general – John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar (viceregal consort – Adelaide Dalton)
- Prime minister – John A. Macdonald
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
- 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.
- 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.
- September 16 – Alfred Boyd becomes its first premier of Manitoba.
- December 27 – The 1870 Manitoba election
Births
- 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)
- 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.1908)
- 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)
- 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 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)
Full date unknown
- Thomas Scott, Orangemen (b.1842)
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