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Canada-related events during the year of 1870
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Events from the year 1870 in Canada .
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(July 2010 )
Births
Howard Ferguson
R. B. Bennett
July 3 –
R. B. Bennett , lawyer, businessman, politician, philanthropist and 11th
Prime Minister of Canada (d.
1947 )
July 28 –
Aubin-Edmond Arsenault , politician and Premier of
Prince Edward Island (d.
1968 )
July 29 –
George Dixon , boxer, first black world boxing champion in any weight class and first Canadian-born boxing champion (d.
1909 )
September 7 –
James Tompkins , priest and educator (d.
1953 )
October 16 –
Wallace Rupert Turnbull , engineer and inventor (d.
1954 )
November 10 –
Harlan Carey Brewster , politician and Premier of
British Columbia (d.
1918 )
November 17 –
Jean Prévost , politician (d.
1915 )
December 15 –
Richard McBride , politician and Premier of
British Columbia (d.
1917 )
Full date unknown
Deaths
Historical documents
Metis List of Rights calls for
Rupert's Land and the
Northwest to become the Province of
Assiniboia
[2]
President
Louis Riel gives his first speech to the Red River provisional government
[3]
Doubtful about Louis Riel,
Prime Minister Macdonald begins assembling a
military force
[4]
MP praises liberal approach in
creating Manitoba in House of Commons speech
[5]
Red River resident objects to
amnesty for Louis Riel and other leaders
[6]
President Grant calls Canada unfriendly to U.S.
fishers and shippers
[7]
Call for a state-supported "Dominion University" in Canada
[8]
McGill University's
John William Dawson on science education abroad and its application to Canada
[9]
Reports of
smallpox among Blackfoot, Cree and other nations
[10]
References
^
"Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia" . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 5 December 2022 .
^ D'Arcy G. Vermette, "II.a.The Lists of Rights and Metis Demands,"
Beyond Doctrines of Dominance , pgs. 108-9. Accessed 21 September 2018
^
"Provisional Government; First Council Meeting; Speech of the President" The New Nation, Winnipeg, Vol. I, No. 10 (March 11, 1870), pg. 2. Accessed 20 September 2018
^ Joseph Pope, Memoirs of the Right Honourable Sir John Alexander Macdonald, G.C.B., First Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada (1894), pgs.
62-3 . Accessed 10 September 2018
^ Adams George Archibald,
Speech Delivered in the House of Commons by the Hon. A.G. Archibald, during the Debate on the "Manitoba Bill," May 7, 1870 (1870). Accessed 10 September 2018
^
Letter in "Report of the Select Committee on the Causes of the Difficulties in the North-West Territory in 1869-70," Journals of the House of Commons 1874 , Vol. 8, Appendix 6, pg. 195. Accessed 10 September 2018
^ Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873 ; Monday, December 5, 1870, pgs.
15-18 . Accessed 10 September 2018
^ R.G. (Robert Grant) Haliburton,
Mr. Haliburton's Speech on the Young Men of the New Dominion; from the Ottawa Citizen, January 27, 1870 . Accessed 10 September 2018
^ John William Dawson,
Science Education Abroad, a Lecture; Being the Annual University Lecture of the Session 1870-71 . Accessed 10 September 2018
^ William Francis Butler, Report by Lieutenant Butler, 69th Regt., of His Journey from Fort Garry to Rocky Mountain House and Back (1871), pgs.
9-12 . Accessed 11 September 2018
1870 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories