1869 in Canada

Events from the year 1869 in Canada.

Crown

 * Monarch – Victoria

Federal government

 * Governor General – Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck (until February 2) then John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar
 * Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald
 * Parliament – 1st

Lieutenant governors

 * 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 New Brunswick – Andrew Rainsford Wetmore
 * Premier of Nova Scotia – William Annand
 * Premier of Ontario – John Sandfield Macdonald
 * Premier of Quebec – Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau

Events

 * February 2 – Lord Lisgar replaces Viscount Monck of Ballytrammon as Governor General
 * February 11 – Patrick James Whelan is hanged for the assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee
 * October 9 – Sir Francis Hincks becomes Minister of Finance
 * October 24 – The Canadian Illustrated News is founded in Montreal.
 * November 19 – The Deed of Surrender recognizes the purchase of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory from the Hudson's Bay Company: the lands are placed under the direct control of the Crown, but do not yet formally belong to Canada.

Full date unknown

 * Timothy Eaton opens his first store in Toronto
 * Newfoundland rejects Confederation with Canada
 * 1869 Newfoundland general election
 * Red River Rebellion begins
 * George Hunt founds Huntsville, Ontario
 * 1869 to 1870 – Smallpox epidemic strikes Canadian Plains tribes, including Blackfeet, Piegan, and Blood.
 * Maria Susan Rye began bringing groups of children from poorhouses and orphanages to Canada from England.

Sport

 * November 3 – Hamilton Tigers Canadian football team is founded

Births

 * March 18 – Maude Abbott, physician (d.1940)
 * April 6 – Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, painter and sculptor (d.1937)
 * June 20 – William Donald Ross, financier, banker and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1947)
 * August 25 – Charles William Jefferys, artist and historian (d.1951)
 * November 25 – Herbert Greenfield, politician and 4th Premier of Alberta (d.1949)
 * December 18 – William Sanford Evans, politician (d.1950)
 * December 30 – Stephen Leacock, writer and economist (d.1944)

Deaths

 * February 11 – Patrick J. Whelan, tailor and alleged Fenian sympathizer executed following the 1868 assassination of Canadian journalist and politician Thomas D'Arcy McGee (b.1840)
 * March 5 – John Redpath, Scots-Quebecer businessman and philanthropist (b.1796)
 * August 1 – Louis-Charles Boucher de Niverville, lawyer and politician (b.1825)

Historical documents
Ottawa Board of Trade assesses the Northwest's commercial potential

Red River resident finds those who are opposed to the Metis provisional government are unwilling to resist it

Painting: Hudson's Bay Company canoes on Lake Superior