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Acts of Parliament, 1870

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Monarch – Victoria ^[1]

Federal government

Governor General – John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar
Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald
Parliament – 1st

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

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

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.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

↑ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.

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1870 in Canada

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Incumbents

Crown

Federal government

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Territorial governments

Lieutenant governors

Events

Births

Full date unknown

Deaths

References