1899 in Canada
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Events from the year 1899 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
- Head of state (monarch) – Queen Victoria (consort – Vacant)
 
Federal government
- Governor general – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (viceregal consort – Mary Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Countess of Minto)
 - Prime minister – Wilfrid Laurier
 
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- 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) then Peter Adolphus McIntyre
 - Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté
 
Premiers
- 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) then George William Ross
 - Premier of Prince Edward Island – Donald Farquharson
 - Premier of Quebec – Félix-Gabriel Marchand
 
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Colebrooke Patterson
 - Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Amédée E. Forget
 
Premiers
Events
- January 20 - About 2000 Doukhobors arrive in Halifax, Nova Scotia
 - June 21 - Treaty No. 8 cedes much of northern Alberta to the federal government
 - July 5 - Brandon, Manitoba housemaid Hilda Blake shoots her mistress twice; the first shot misses, but the second bullet pierces the mistress's right lung.
 - 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 South Africa
 - November 4 - The fourth election of the North-West Legislative Assembly
 
Births
January to June
- 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 December
- 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
 
Deaths
- 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)
 
 
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