Events from the year 1899 in Canada.

1899
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Canada

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Historical documents

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Missionary persuades Cree leader Yellow Bear to burn his "heathen idols" at Shoal Lake in Saskatchewan (Note: "bad spirit" and other stereotypes)[3]

Southern Tutchone man describes transfer of reindeer to Yukon from Alaska[4]

Official describes Indigenous and Metis people at Treaty 8 signing (Note: "wild men" and other stereotypes)[5]

Old woman in Fort Erie, Ontario tells of escaping slavery in Virginia with her parents and six siblings[6]

Mackenzie King realizes his parliamentary vocation at Westminster in London[7]

Oozing tar and leaking gas on Athabasca River near Fort McMurray[8]

Article on gold strike in northern Ontario[9]

Nurse treats feisty patients under horrible conditions in Dawson City's hospital[10]

Murals provided to new Toronto City Hall to encourage development of wall decoration[11]

Edison film of Whitehorse Rapids, Yukon River [12]

References

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  1. ^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  2. ^ The American Monthly Review of Reviews (July 1899), pp. 25-29
  3. ^ John Hines, The Red Indians of the Plains: Thirty Years' Missionary Experience in the Saskatchewan (1916), pgs. 296-300 Accessed 22 December 2019
  4. ^ Jimmy Kane, "The Reindeer Drive from Alaska" (Catharine McClellan, oral historian), My Old People's Stories; A Legacy for Yukon First Nations; Part I Southern Tutchone Narrators (2007), pgs. 131-7. Accessed 29 March 2020
  5. ^ Charles Mair, Through the Mackenzie Basin: A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 (1908), pgs. 53-5 Accessed 22 December 2019
  6. ^ Frank H. Severance, Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier (1899), pgs. 241-2 Accessed 24 February 2020
  7. ^ Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King, pg. 183 Accessed 22 December 2019
  8. ^ Charles Mair, "Chapter IX; The Athabasca River Region," Through the Mackenzie Basin: A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 (1908), pgs. 121-2, 127, 130-1 Accessed 22 December 2019 (See also photographs of oil derrick and tar banks along Athabasca)
  9. ^ "Seine River Wealth; The Golden Star Makes a Fabulously Rich Strike(....)" Rainy Lake Herald (March 9, 1899). Accessed 22 December 2019
  10. ^ Georgie Powell, "Report from Miss Powell, District Superintendent in the Klondike," What Is the Use of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada? (1900), pgs. 39-40 Accessed 22 December 2019
  11. ^ "Mural Decorations in the New Municipal Buildings, Toronto," The Canadian Architect and Builder, Vol. XII, Issue 5 (May 1899), pg. 98 Accessed 22 December 2019
  12. ^ Thomas Crahan, production; Robert K. Bonine, camera; Thomas A. Edison, Inc. [sic], "White Horse Rapids" Accessed 22 December 2019