1870 in Canada

Events from the year 1870 in Canada.

Incumbents

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

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
November 17 – Jean Prévost, politician
December 15 – Richard McBride, politician and Premier of British Columbia

February 6 – William MacBean George Colebrooke, lieutenant governor of New Brunswick
March 4 – Thomas Scott, Orangemen
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