June 21 – Treaty No. 8 cedes 840,000 km2 to the Crown, located in British Columbia and the North-West Territories' districts of Alberta, Athabasca and Mackenzie.
July 5 – In Brandon, Manitoba, housemaid Hilda Blake shoots her mistress twice; the first shot misses, but the second bullet pierces the mistress's right lung. Blake was later hanged for murder.
September 18 – The new City Hall building opens in Toronto.
^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
^Frank H. Severance, Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier (1899), pgs. 241-2 Accessed 24 February 2020
^Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King, pg. 183 Accessed 22 December 2019
^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)
^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
^"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
^Thomas Crahan, production; Robert K. Bonine, camera; Thomas A. Edison, Inc. [sic], "White Horse Rapids" Accessed 22 December 2019