See also: 1867 in Canada, other events of 1868, 1869 in Canada.

Events from the year 1868 in Canada.

[edit] Incumbents

Crown

• Head of state (monarch): Queen Victoria (Prince consort - None)

Federal government

• Governor General: Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck (Viceregal Consort - Elizabeth Monck, Viscountess Monck)

Cabinet

• Prime Minister of Canada: John A. Macdonald

[edit] Provinces

Lieutenant-governors

• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick: Francis Pym Harding
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia: Charles Hastings Doyle
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario: Henry William Stisted then William Pearce Howland
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec: Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau

Premiers

• Premier of New Brunswick: Andrew Rainsford Wetmore
• Premier of Nova Scotia: William Annand
• Premier of Ontario: John Sandfield Macdonald
• Premier of Quebec: Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau

[edit] Colonies

Secretary of State for the Colonies

• The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos then The Earl Granville

Governors

• Colonial Governor of Newfoundland: Anthony Musgrave
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island: George Dundas then Robert Hodgson
• Governor of the United Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia: Frederick Seymour

Premiers

• Colonial Prime Minister of Newfoundland: Frederick Carter
• Premier of Colony of Prince Edward Island: George Coles

[edit] Events

• March 4 - Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario established
• April 7 - Father of Confederation Thomas D'Arcy McGee is assassinated in Ottawa by Irish Fenians.

[edit] Full date unknown

• Louis Riel returns to the Red River area
• The Hudson's Bay Company agrees to turn Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory over to Canada
• The first Federal Militia Act is passed, creating a Canadian army
• George-Étienne Cartier created a Baronet

[edit] Births

[edit] January to June

• January 16 - Octavia Ritchie, first woman to receive a medical degree in Quebec[1]
• February 16 - John Babington Macaulay Baxter, lawyer, jurist and 18th Premier of New Brunswick (d.1946)
• March 14 - Emily Murphy, women's rights activist, jurist and author, first woman magistrate in Canada and in the British Empire (d.1933)
• April 27 - James Kidd Flemming, businessman, politician and 13th Premier of New Brunswick (d.1927)
• May 31 - Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, politician and 11th Governor General of Canada (d.1938)

[edit] July to December

• July 8 - Henry Cockshutt, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1944)
• July 9 - William Alves Boys, politician and barrister (d.1938)
• August 25 - Arthur Puttee, politician (d.1957)
• August 26 - Charles Stewart, politician and 3rd Premier of Alberta (d.1946)
• September 1 - Henri Bourassa, politician and publisher (d.1952)
• September 22 - Louise McKinney, first woman sworn in to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and first woman elected to a legislature in Canada and in the British Empire (d.1931)
• September 28 - Herbert Alexander Bruce, surgeon and 15th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1963)
• November 9 - Marie Dressler, actress (d.1934)
• December 11 - William Parks, geologist and paleontologist (d.1936)

[edit] Deaths

• January 25 - Alexander Roberts Dunn, first Canadian awarded the Victoria Cross (b.1833)
• April 7 - D'Arcy McGee, journalist, politician and Father of Confederation, assassinated (b.1825)
• August 7 - William Agar Adamson, Church of England clergyman and author (b.1800)
• September 12 - Charles Dickson Archibald, lawyer, businessman and politician (b.1802)
• October 17 - Laura Secord, heroine of the War of 1812 (b.1775)