1899 in Canada

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Events from the year 1899 in Canada.

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Historical Documents

Missionary persuades Cree leader Yellow Bear to burn his "heathen idols" at Shoal Lake in Saskatchewan (Note: "bad spirit" and other stereotypes) [1]

Southern Tutchone man describes transfer of reindeer to Yukon from Alaska [2]

Official describes Indigenous and Metis people at Treaty 8 signing (Note: "wild men" and other stereotypes) [3]

Old woman in Fort Erie, Ontario tells of escaping slavery in Virginia with her parents and six siblings [4]

Mackenzie King realizes his parliamentary vocation at Westminster in London [5]

Oozing tar and leaking gas on Athabasca River near Fort McMurray [6]

Article on gold strike in northern Ontario [7]

Nurse treats feisty patients under horrible conditions in Dawson City's hospital [8]

Murals provided to new Toronto City Hall to encourage development of wall decoration [9]

Edison film of Whitehorse Rapids, Yukon River [10]

References

  1. John Hines, The Red Indians of the Plains: Thirty Years' Missionary Experience in the Saskatchewan (1916), pgs. 296-300. Accessed 22 December 2019 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/3595/342.html
  2. 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 http://assets.yukonarchives.ca/McClellan_My_Old_Peoples_Stories_Part_1.pdf
  3. 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 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2463/66.html
  4. Frank H. Severance, Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier (1899), pgs. 241-2. Accessed 24 February 2020 https://archive.org/details/oldtrailsniagara00severich/page/241/mode/1up/
  5. Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King, pg. 183. Accessed 22 December 2019 http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/politics-government/prime-ministers/william-lyon-mackenzie-king/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=2741&
  6. 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 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2463/152.html
  7. "Seine River Wealth; The Golden Star Makes a Fabulously Rich Strike[....]" Rainy Lake Herald (March 9, 1899). Accessed 22 December 2019 http://www.fftimes.com/100-years-100-stories/seineriverwealth.html
  8. 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 http://archive.org/stream/cihm_07174#page/n47/mode/2up
  9. "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 http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/cab/search/imgdisplay.php?imgfile=../Volume%2012/Issue%205/v12n5p98.gif
  10. Thomas Crahan, production; Robert K. Bonine, camera; Thomas A. Edison, Inc. [sic], "White Horse Rapids." Accessed 22 December 2019 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/edmp.1198
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