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13 languages. العربية ... 1899 establishments in Canada (9 C, 8 P) E. 1899 elections in Canada (6 P) L. 1899 in Canadian law (1 C) N. 1899 in the Northwest ...
June 21 – Treaty No. 8 cedes 840,000 km 2 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.
January 6 – Tim Buck, politician and long-time leader of the Communist Party of Canada (d.1973) January 26 – Wilder Penfield, neurosurgeon (d.1976) April 1 – Harry Nixon, politician and 13th Premier of Ontario (d.1961) May 3 – Thomas John Bentley, politician (d.1983) June 13 – Hervé-Edgar Brunelle, politician and lawyer (d.1950)
Sum Ying Fung (née Eng, Chinese: 吴如英, 27 January 1899 – 6 December 2011), was a Chinese Canadian supercentenarian who was the oldest person in Canada in 2011. Sum Ying Eng was born in Wing On Village, Yanping, China in 1899. [36] In 1926, she married Chong Lim Fung, who had been working in Canada since 1911.
Category: 1899 in Canada by province or territory. 1 language. ... This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total. A. 1899 in Alberta (2 P) B.
April 13 – John Christian Schultz, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1840) May 4 – Timothy Anglin, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (b.1822) June 7 – Wyatt Eaton, painter (b.1849) June 10 – Donald Alexander Macdonald, politician (b.1817) June 19 – John Beverley Robinson, politician (b.1821)
June 13 – Yukon becomes a distinct territory from the North-West Territories. July 29 – White Pass and Yukon Route opens (Skagway–Whitehorse). August – Donald Farquharson becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing A. B. Warburton. August 8 – John Herbert Turner is dismissed as premier of British Columbia.
1899 Treaty 8 was the last formal treaty signed by a First Nation in British Columbia until Nisga agreement. 1890-1891 Two monuments dedicated to Canada's Aboriginal Peoples and their cultures were unveiled in front of Quebec's Parliament Building : Louis-Philippe Hébert 's A Halt in the Forest (1890) and The Nigog Fisherman [ 149 ] (1891).