1899 in Canada
Events from the year 1899 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
- Governor General – The 4th Earl of Minto
- Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
- Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong
- Parliament – 8th
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 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 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, 7400 by year end.
- May 5 – The village of Stirling, Alberta, NWT, is founded as a Mormon colony of 30 American settlers from Richfield, Utah, led by Theodore Brandley.
- May 25 – A fire in Saint John, New Brunswick, destroys 150 buildings and renders over 1,000 people homeless.
- June 21 – Treaty No. 8 cedes 840,000 km to the Crown, located in British Columbia and the North-West Territories' districts of Alberta, Athabasca and Mackenzie.
- July 5 – In Brandon, Manitoba, housemaid Hilda Blake shoots her mistress twice; the first shot misses, but the second bullet pierces the mistress's right lung. Blake was later hanged for murder.
- 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.
- 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 the Cape Colony.
Births
January to June
- January 5 – Hugh John Flemming, politician and 24th Premier of New Brunswick
- January 6 – Sonia Eckhardt-Gramatté, composer
- February 27 – Charles Best, medical scientist, co-discoverer of insulin
- March 14 – K. C. Irving, entrepreneur and industrialist
- May 26 – Antonio Barrette, politician and 18th Premier of Quebec
- May 27 – Dov Yosef, Canadian-born Israeli politician and statesman
July to December
- July 24 – Dan George, actor and author
- August 1 – F. R. Scott, poet, intellectual and constitutional expert
- October 2 – Juda Hirsch Quastel, biochemist
- October 3 – Adrien Arcand, journalist and fascist
- November 5 – Gilbert Layton, businessman and politician
- November 10 – Billy Boucher, ice hockey player
- November 17 – Douglas Shearer, sound designer and recording director
- November 30 – Edna Diefenbaker, first wife of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker
- December 24 – William Van Steenburgh, scientist
Deaths
- February 10 – Archibald Lampman, poet
- April 29 – George Frederick Baird, politician and lawyer
- July 31 – James David Edgar, politician
- August 29 – Catharine Parr Traill, writer
- October 25
- * Grant Allen, science writer, author and novelist
- * Peter Mitchell, politician, Minister and a Father of Confederation
- November 19 – John William Dawson, geologist and university administrator
- December 13
- * George Airey Kirkpatrick, politician
- * Lucius Richard O'Brien, painter