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Sir James David Edgar, KCMG PC QC (August 10, 1841 – July 31, 1899) was a Canadian politician. In his twenties, Edgar was a law student, legal editor of the Toronto Globe, an alderman on Toronto's city council and an organizer for the Liberal Party in Ontario.
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.
Hugh Ryan's obituary sketch featured in The Montreal Star on 13 February 1899. In October 1898 Hugh Ryan contracted Bright's disease and died four months later on 13 February 1899 as "one of the richest men in Toronto" with his estate valued at $1.4 million (the equivalent of $52 million in 2024).
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)
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Fariborz Sahba (born 1948) – Master's degree from Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran, architect of Lotus Temple, and Terraces (Baháʼí) Henry Sears FRAIC (1929–2003) – Massey medal-winning architect, urban and gallery planner; Brigitte Shim (born 1958) – Order of Canada for architecture, and Integral House
Portrait of Weston in 1899. George Weston was born to Ann and William Weston at Oswego, New York, in 1864. [4] By the time George turned four, the family, British immigrants who first settled in Canada, had returned to Toronto after some time in the United States. [2] On completing public school, George was sent out into the workforce.
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.