Canada-related events during the year of 1868
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Events from the year 1868 in Canada .
Incumbents [ edit ]
Federal government [ edit ]
Provincial governments [ edit ]
Lieutenant governors [ edit ]
Premiers [ edit ]
Colonies [ edit ]
Governors [ edit ]
Premiers [ edit ]
Full date unknown [ edit ]
Louis Riel returns to the Red River area
January to June [ edit ]
January 16 — Octavia Ritchie , first woman to receive a medical degree in Quebec [1]
January 22 — Adjutor Rivard , lawyer, writer, judge and linguist (died 1945 )
February 16 — John Babington Macaulay Baxter , lawyer, jurist and 18th Premier of New Brunswick (died 1946 )
March 14 — Emily Murphy , women's rights activist, jurist and author, first woman magistrate in Canada and in the British Empire (died 1933 )
April 27 — James Kidd Flemming , businessman, politician and 13th Premier of New Brunswick (died 1927 )
May 31 — Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire , politician and 11th Governor General of Canada (died 1938 )
July to December [ edit ]
January 19 — Frederic , Roman Catholic priest, missionary, and bishop (born 1797 )
January 25 — Alexander Roberts Dunn , first Canadian awarded the Victoria Cross (born 18 )
January 28 — Edmund Walker Head , Governor (born 1805 )
February 19 — Dominick Daly , politician (born 1798 )
April 7 — D'Arcy McGee , journalist, politician and Father of Confederation , assassinated (born 1825 )
August 7 — William Agar Adamson , Church of England clergyman and author (born 1800 )
September 12 — Charles Dickson Archibald , lawyer, businessman and politician (born 1802 )
October 17 — Laura Secord , heroine of the War of 1812 (born 1775 )
Historical documents [ edit ]
Political cartoon satirizes Nova Scotians' mixed feelings about Confederation[2]
Indigenous people assert claim to their reserve at Lake of Two Mountains (Oka), Quebec [3]
"The moment was fraught with danger" - British spy addresses large rally of Fenians [4]
Report by a visitor to newly opened settler lands in Muskoka , Ontario[5]
In his last Commons speech, D'Arcy McGee lauds anyone "prepared[...]to sacrifice himself [for] principles[...]adopted as those of truth"[6]
Federal deputy minister of agriculture says connoisseur in France finds Canadian wine to be vin d'ordinaire second only to their own[7]
References [ edit ]
^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia" . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . Retrieved 5 December 2022 .
^ John Henry Walker, "Cross Roads. Shall We Go to Washington First, or How(e)?" (first published in Diogenes, November 20, 1868). Accessed 9 September 2018
^ Indian Branch, Department of the Secretary of State for the Provinces, "List of Copies of Documents...." Return[...]of all Correspondence between the Government and the Iroquois Indians of Two Mountains[....] (1870), pgs. 2-3 (PDF pgs. 57-8), Algonquin and Nipissing Indians of Oka Collection, McGill (University) Library. Accessed 15 January 2020
^ Henri Le Caron, Twenty-Five Years in the Secret Service; The Recollections of a Spy (1892), pgs. 53-7. Accessed 9 September 2018
^ "Visit to the Free Grant Lands of Canada" The (Tokomairiro, N.Z.) Bruce Herald, Vol. V, No. 238 (November 18, 1868), pg. 7. Accessed 9 September 2018
^ "Mr. McGee's Last Speech" (April 6, 1868), House of Commons Debates; First Session - First Parliament, pg. 468. Accessed 18 April 2021
^ "Report of the Select Committee on the Cultivation of the Vine in Canada; Minutes of Evidence" Appendix (No. 6), House of Commons Journals, 1st Parliament, 1st Session: Vol. 1 (1868), pgs. A6-1–A6-2. Accessed 12 July 2020
1868 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories