1868 in Canada
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Events from the year 1868 in Canada.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Crown
- Head of state (monarch): Queen Victoria (Prince consort - None)
- Federal government
- Governor General: Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck (Viceregal Consort - Elizabeth Monck, Viscountess Monck)
- Cabinet
[edit] Provinces
- Lieutenant-governors
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick: Francis Pym Harding
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia: Charles Hastings Doyle
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario: Henry William Stisted then 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
[edit] Colonies
- Governors
- Colonial Governor of Newfoundland: Anthony Musgrave
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island: George Dundas then Robert Hodgson
- Governor of the United Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia: Frederick Seymour
- Premiers
- Colonial Prime Minister of Newfoundland: Frederick Carter
- Premier of Colony of Prince Edward Island: George Coles
[edit] Events
- March 4 - Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario established
- April 7 - Father of Confederation Thomas D'Arcy McGee is assassinated in Ottawa by Irish Fenians.
[edit] Full date unknown
- Louis Riel returns to the Red River area
- The Hudson's Bay Company agrees to turn Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory over to Canada
- The first Federal Militia Act is passed, creating a Canadian army
- George-Étienne Cartier created a Baronet
[edit] Births
[edit] January to June
- January 16 - Octavia Ritchie, first woman to receive a medical degree in Quebec[1]
- February 16 - John Babington Macaulay Baxter, lawyer, jurist and 18th Premier of New Brunswick (d.1946)
- March 14 - Emily Murphy, women's rights activist, jurist and author, first woman magistrate in Canada and in the British Empire (d.1933)
- April 27 - James Kidd Flemming, businessman, politician and 13th Premier of New Brunswick (d.1927)
- May 31 - Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, politician and 11th Governor General of Canada (d.1938)
[edit] July to December
- July 8 - Henry Cockshutt, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1944)
- July 9 - William Alves Boys, politician and barrister (d.1938)
- August 25 - Arthur Puttee, politician (d.1957)
- August 26 - Charles Stewart, politician and 3rd Premier of Alberta (d.1946)
- September 1 - Henri Bourassa, politician and publisher (d.1952)
- September 22 - Louise McKinney, first woman sworn in to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and first woman elected to a legislature in Canada and in the British Empire (d.1931)
- September 28 - Herbert Alexander Bruce, surgeon and 15th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1963)
- November 9 - Marie Dressler, actress (d.1934)
- December 11 - William Parks, geologist and paleontologist (d.1936)
[edit] Deaths
- April 7 - D'Arcy McGee, journalist, politician and Father of Confederation, assassinated (b.1825)
- August 7 - William Agar Adamson, Church of England clergyman and author (b.1800)
- September 12 - Charles Dickson Archibald, lawyer, businessman and politician (b.1802)
- October 17 - Laura Secord, heroine of the War of 1812 (b.1775)
