1889 in Canada
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| Years in Canada: | 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 |
| Centuries: | 18th century · 19th century · 20th century |
| Decades: | 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s |
| Years: | 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 |
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Events from the year 1889 in Canada.
Contents
Incumbents
Crown
- Head of state (monarch) – Queen Victoria (consort – Vacant)
Federal government
- Governor general – Frederick Stanley (viceregal consort – Lady Constance Villiers)
- Prime minister – John A. Macdonald
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Hugh Nelson
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Archibald McLelan
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Alexander Campbell
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – A.A. Macdonald (until September 2) then Jedediah Slason Carvell
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia – Alexander Edmund Batson Davie (until August 1) then John Robson (from August 2)
- Premier of Manitoba – Thomas Greenway
- Premier of New Brunswick – Andrew George Blair
- Premier of Nova Scotia – William Stevens Fielding
- Premier of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – William Wilfred Sullivan (until November 1) then Neil McLeod
- Premier of Quebec – Honoré Mercier
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – John Christian Schultz
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Joseph Royal
Premiers
Events
- August 1 - Alexander Davie, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office.
- August 2 - John Robson becomes premier of British Columbia.
- September 19 - A rock slide in Quebec City kills 45
- November - Neil McLeod becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Sir William Wilfred Sullivan.
- November 6 - Newfoundland election: William Whiteway's Liberals win a majority, defeating Robert Thorburn's Reforms
Full date unknown
- The Dominion Women Enfranchisement Association is created to campaign for women's right to vote
- An Act of the British Parliament gives control of northern Ontario to the Ontario government to allow the province to set policies to develop the region's natural resources.[1]
Births
- February 27 - Samuel Bronfman, businessman (d.1971)
- May 16 - Morris A. Gray, politician (d.1966)
- August 13 - Camillien Houde, politician and four-time mayor of Montreal (d.1958)
- October 13 - Douglass Dumbrille, actor (d.1974)
- November 20 - John B. McNair, lawyer, politician, judge and 22nd Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (d.1968)
- December 4 - Leslie Gordon Bell, politician and lawyer (d.1963)
Deaths
- April 9 - Andrew Charles Elliott, jurist, politician and 4th Premier of British Columbia (b. c1828)
- May 4 - A. B. Rogers, surveyor (b.1829)
- June 5 - John Hamilton Gray, Premier of New Brunswick (b.1814)
- July 5 - John Norquay, politician and 5th Premier of Manitoba (b.1841)
- August 1 - Alexander Edmund Batson Davie, politician and 7th Premier of British Columbia (b.1847)
- September 5 - Louis-Victor Sicotte, lawyer, judge and politician (b.1812)
- September 13 - Henry Joseph Clarke, lawyer, politician and 3rd Premier of Manitoba (b.1833)
- October 28 - Alexander Morris, politician, Minister and 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (b.1826)
Full date unknown
- Edwin Randolph Oakes, politician (b.1818)
References
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