By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

From this province were detached the province of Lyon, called Occitania ( 1862 ), that of Toulouse ( 1869 ), and that of Canada ( 1909 ).

* Civic Holiday, a statutory holiday celebrated throughout Canada under a variety of names by region, was established in honour of Simcoe by the Toronto City Council in 1869.

* 1869 – The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada.

* Home Children the child migration scheme founded by Annie MacPherson in 1869, under which more than 100, 000 children were sent to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa from the United Kingdom.

One way in which this is carried out is travelling the country and meeting with Canadians from all regions and ethnic groups in Canada, continuing the tradition begun in 1869 by Governor General the Lord Lisgar.

Winsor's exact place and year of birth are uncertain — he claimed to have been born in Spring Lake, Michigan in 1871, but his gravestone says 1869, and census reports state that he was born in Canada in 1867.

Galt was named in 1869 after former city of Galt in Canada, now part of Cambridge, the hometown of John McFarland.

The first bills for the creation of a federal supreme court, introduced in the Parliament of Canada in 1869 and in 1870, were withdrawn.

While most Nova Scotian remained supportive of the Anti-Confederation Campaign during this time period, Howe ran in Hants County bi-election of 1869 to get a mandate from the people to see if they wanted him to continue to support Nova Scotia's entry into Canada.

In 1869, Rupert's Land was annexed to Canada as the Northwest Territories, and in 1870 a part of the NWT, Manitoba, became a province of Canada.

The Prince transferred to the Royal Regiment of Artillery on 2 November 1868 and, on 2 August 1869, to the Rifle Brigade, his father's own regiment, after which he conducted a long and distinguished career as an army officer, including service in South Africa, Canada in 1869, Ireland, Egypt in 1882, and in India from 1886 to 1890.

On December 1, 1869, Canada purchased the territory.

He held various positions in Cabinet, including Solicitor General ( 1864 – 66 ), Postmaster General ( 1866 – 67 ), Secretary of State for Canada ( 1867 – 69 ), Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs ( 1868 – 69 ) and Minister of Public Works ( 1869 – 73 ).

Canada had one by 1869, and the first in New Zealand was opened in 1874.

The first SPCA in Canada was the Canadian SPCA founded in Montreal in 1869.

Hoyles decided to leave office in 1865, before the crucial 1869 election which decided the fate of Confederation with Canada.

Abortion was completely banned in Canada in 1869.

On his return to Canada, he was Minister of Finance from 1869 until 1874.

1869 in Canada.

* Joseph Smith ( 1796 – 1869 ) ( born 1796 ), Presbyterian minister, author, and academic

Though he was 22 years younger than she was, on March 18, 1869, they were married at the Central Presbyterian Church.

File: Eglise-Presbyterienne-Eufaula-Alabama. JPG | First Presbyterian Church, completed in 1869.

* Union Presbyterian Church Established in 1869 as a result of the union of two congregations, the First Free Presbyterian Church of Traverse des Sioux Established in 1853, and the First Presbyterian Church of St. Peter Established in 1857.

* Loetscher, Lefferts A., The Broadening Church: A Study of Theological Issues in the Presbyterian Church Since 1869.

The institution's first four students met on September 16, 1869, in a room in the First German Presbyterian Church.

It was founded in 1869 in Toronto by Timothy Eaton, a Presbyterian Ulster Scot immigrant from what is now Northern Ireland.

* Loetscher, Lefferts A., The Broadening Church: A Study of Theological Issues in the Presbyterian Church Since 1869.

The oldest surviving building in Taree is the old St Paul's Presbyterian Church, built in 1869 in the Victorian Gothic Revival style, next door to the current building, in Albert Street.

In 1869, he became pastor of the Seventh Presbyterian church of Philadelphia, where he lived for the rest of his life.

It was built at a cost of over $ 335, 000 on the site of the First Presbyterian Church, which had burned to the ground in 1869.

In Halifax, St. Matthew's dates back to 1749 as a " Dissenting Protestant Worship House ", and adhered to Presbyterian polity at a later date ; the Presbyterian Church of St. David is another 1925 " Minority Group " from within downtown Halifax congregations including St Matthew's, and celebrated its 80th Anniversary in 2005, meeting in the former Grafton Street Methodist ( 1869 ) building, acquired in their early days.

Larger and wealthier congregations began to recruit him and in 1869, Talmage accepted an offer from the Central Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, New York.

In 1981, the Institute de Théologie de Montréal was established, to provide teaching in French, although French courses had been provided from 1869 – 1925, and the College is known as The Presbyterian College / Le Collège Presbytérien.

* Fort Street Presbyterian Church, Detroit, Michigan ( 1869 – 82 )

* Dr. William Henry Foote ( 1794 – 1869 ), Presbyterian clergyman and historian

Regarding Ireland the major Liberal achievements were land reform, where he ended centuries of landlord oppression ), the disestablishment of the ( Anglican ) Church of Ireland through the Irish Church Act 1869.

This twentieth ecumenical council of the Catholic Church, held three centuries after the Council of Trent, opened on 8 December 1869 and adjourned on 20 October 1870.

in 1868 Gladstone proposed the Irish Church Resolutions to reunite the Liberal Party for government ( on the issue of disestablishment of the Church of Ireland – this would be done during Gladstone's First Government in 1869 and meant that Irish Roman Catholics did not need to pay their tithes to the Anglican Church of Ireland ).

In 1869 Queen Ranavalona II, previously educated by the London Missionary Society, underwent baptism into the Church of England and subsequently made the Anglican faith the official state religion of Madagascar.

* St. Paul's Church, Wooburn, Buckinghamshire: alterations, 1869

The brothers and sisters were Jørgine Caroline ( 1854 – 1879 ), Mathilde Sophie ( born 1856 ), Karen Marie ( 1857 – 1876 ), Jørgen Peter ( born 1859 ) emigrated to Australia, Johan Sophus ( 1861 – 1942 ) emigrated to USA, Christian Albert ( born 1863 ) emigrated to USA, Carl August ( 1865 – 1931 ), Anders Jacob ( born 1867 ) emigrated to USA, Helene Christine Louise ( born 1869 ) emigrated to USA, Valdemar Emil ( 1871 – 1965 ), Julie Christine ( born 1872 ), Anna Dusine ( 8 January to 2 April 1875 ). All the children bore the surname Nielsen despite regulations by the Ministry of Church Affairs.

File: Highclere Church-geograph. org. uk-56915. jpg | Highclere Church, Hampshire ( 1869 – 70 )

In 1869 a fifth teacher was added and the basement of the Universalist Church was again used-this time for the Intermediate Department.

Among them is Our Savior's Lutheran Church, which was established in 1869.

It was founded in 1869 by LDS Pioneers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

With the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland in 1869, tithes were abolished.

Todmorden has the look of a Victorian mill town and has some notable buildings including Dobroyd Castle ( completed in 1869 ), now used as a residential activity centre for schoolchildren ; the Edwardian Hippodrome Theatre ; an imposing Greek Revival town hall ( built 1866 – 1875 ) that dominates the centre of town ; the Grade I listed Todmorden Unitarian Church ( built 1865 – 1869 ); and the 120 ft Stoodley Pike monument ( built 1814 and rebuilt in 1854 ) atop the hill of the same name.

They were: Alfred Bayes ( 1832 – 1909 ), painter ; Walter Bayes ( 1869 – 1856 ), painter ; Gilbert Bayes ( 1872 – 1952 ), sculptor ; and Jessie Bayes ( 1876 – 1970 ), painter ( some of her work can be see at Lumbutts Methodist Church, Lumbutts, Todmorden ).

The York Diocesan Church Building Society, founded in 1861, contributed to the building of the church in Clifton between 1867 and 1869.

The Irish Church Act 1869 ( which took effect in 1871 ) finally ended the role of the Church of Ireland as state church.