1870 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Victoria

  Federal government

• Governor general – John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar
• Prime minister – John A. Macdonald
• Parliament – 1st

  Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Adams George Archibald
• 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
• Premier of New Brunswick – Andrew Rainsford Wetmore 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 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 the first premier of Manitoba.
• December 27 – The 1870 Manitoba election

  Arts and literature

Births

• May 14 – Richard Langton Baker, politician
• May 21 – Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley, lawyer, politician and 20th Premier of New Brunswick
• June 18 – Howard Ferguson, politician and 9th Premier of Ontario
• July 3 – R. B. Bennett, lawyer, businessman, politician, philanthropist and 11th Prime Minister of Canada
• July 28 – Aubin-Edmond Arsenault, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island
• July 29 – George Dixon, boxer, first black world boxing champion in any weight class and first Canadian-born boxing champion
• September 7 – James Tompkins, priest and educator
• October 16 – Wallace Rupert Turnbull, engineer and inventor
• November 10 – Harlan Carey Brewster, politician and Premier of British Columbia
• December 15 – Richard McBride, politician and Premier of British Columbia

  Full date unknown

• Thomas Langton Church, politician and Mayor of Toronto

  Deaths

• February 6 – William MacBean George Colebrooke, lieutenant governor of New Brunswick
• March 31 – Thomas Cooke, missionary, and the first Bishop of Trois Rivières
• August 7 – François Lesieur Desaulniers, farmer and political figure
• October 13 – Charles-François Baillargeon, Archbishops of Quebec
• October 25 – Etienne-Michel Faillon, Catholic historian
• December 23 – Théophile Hamel, painter

  Full date unknown

• Thomas Scott, Orangemen

  Historical Documents