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Events from the year 1870 in Canada.

[edit] Events

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Births

• May 14 - Richard Langton Baker, politician (d.1951)

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• May 21 - Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley, lawyer, politician and 20th Premier of New Brunswick (d.1947)
• June 18 - Howard Ferguson, politician and 9th Premier of Ontario (d.1946)
• 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.1908)
• 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)
• December 15 - Richard McBride, politician and Premier of British Columbia (d.1917)

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• Thomas Langton Church, politician and Mayor of Toronto (d.1950)

[edit] Deaths