1894 in Canada

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Events from the year 1894 in Canada.

IncumbentsEdit

CrownEdit

Monarch – Victoria<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Federal governmentEdit

Governor General – The Earl of Aberdeen
Prime Minister – John Thompson (until December 12) then Mackenzie Bowell (from December 21)
Parliament – 7th
Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario)

Provincial governmentsEdit

Lieutenant governorsEdit

Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Edgar Dewdney
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – John James Fraser
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – George Airey Kirkpatrick
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Jedediah Slason Carvell (until February 14) then George William Howlan (from February 21)
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau

PremiersEdit

Territorial governmentsEdit

Lieutenant governorsEdit

PremiersEdit

Chairman of the Executive Committee of the North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain

EventsEdit

January 1 – the town of Calgary is incorporated as a city
February 20 – Manitoba Schools Question: The Supreme Court refuses to hear the appeal of Manitoba francophones.
April 27 – Canada's largest known landslide occurs in Saint-Alban, Quebec. It displaced Template:Convert of rock and dirt and left a Template:Convert scar that covered Template:Convert.<ref name="1894landslide">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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May 17 – Pioneers' Obelisk (Montreal) unveiled
June 14 – Massey Hall opens in Toronto.
June 26 – 1894 Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a seventh majority.
June 28 – July 9 – Colonial Conference of 1894 held in Ottawa.
September 3 – Labour Day celebrated for the first time in Canada.
October 31 – The third election of the North-West Legislative Assembly.
December 12 – Prime Minister Sir John Thompson, dies of a heart attack at Windsor Castle, just hours after Queen Victoria inducted him to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
December 21 – Mackenzie Bowell becomes prime minister.

Full date unknownEdit

Rondeau Provincial Park is established in southwestern Ontario.
St. Albert cheese factory is founded.

Arts and literatureEdit

Toronto Mendelssohn Choir is founded.

SportEdit

March 22 – Montreal Hockey Club defeats Ottawa to win the first Stanley Cup challenge.

BirthsEdit

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George Alexander Drew in 1947

January to JuneEdit

January 3 – James Lorimer Ilsley, politician, Minister and jurist (d.1967)
January 5 – Norman MacKenzie, author, lawyer, professor and Senator (d.1986)
February 8 – Billy Bishop, First World War flying ace (d.1956)
May 7 – George A. Drew, politician and 14th Premier of Ontario (d.1973)
May 13 – William Earl Rowe, politician and 20th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1984)
May 29 – Beatrice Lillie, comic actress (d.1989)
June 4 – La Bolduc, singer and musician (d.1941)
June 5 – Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, newspaper proprietor and media entrepreneur (d.1976)

July to DecemberEdit

July 17 – Phillip Garratt, aviator
July 24 – Theobald Butler Barrett, politician
July 25 – Norman McLeod Rogers, lawyer, politician and Cabinet minister (d.1940)
August – Gladys Porter, politician and first female member of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia (d.1967)
September 9 – Humphrey Mitchell, politician and trade unionist (d.1950)
September 10 – H. H. Wrong, diplomat (d.1954)
October 7 – Del Lord, film director and actor (d.1970 in the United States)
November 5 – Harold Innis, professor of political economy and author (d.1952)
November 13 – James Allan, politician (d.1992)
November 26 – James Charles McGuigan, Cardinal (d.1974)
December 13 – Chester Ronning, diplomat and politician (d.1984)

DeathsEdit

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John Sparrow David Thompson

March 19 – John Langton, businessman, political figure and civil servant (b.1808)
April 16 – Joseph-Charles Taché, a Canadian noted for his contributions to many aspects of the fabric of Canada (b.1820)
May 27 – Francis Godschall Johnson, politician (b.1817)
June 22 – Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Roman Catholic priest, missionary, author and Archbishop (b.1823)
September 5 – James Macleod, militia officer, lawyer, police officer, magistrate, judge and politician (b.1836)
September 14 – Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau, lawyer, businessman and politician (b.1808)
September 15 – Philip Carteret Hill, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1821)
October 4 - Stephen Richards, politician, Ontario MPP, and Provincial Secretary (b. 1820)
October 30 – Honoré Mercier, lawyer, journalist, politician and Premier of Quebec (b.1840)
November 28 – Patrick Leonard MacDougall, General and author (b.1819)
November 29 – Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck, Governor General (b.1819)
December 12 – John Sparrow David Thompson, lawyer, judge, politician, university professor and 4th Prime Minister of Canada (b.1845)

Historical documentsEdit

Prime Minister John Thompson's invitation to his Imperial Privy Council swearing-in at Windsor Castle<ref> Clerk of the Council, Whitehall, December 8, 1894 Accessed 23 December 2019</ref>

Prime Minister John Thompson's death at Windsor Castle, and Queen Victoria's response<ref>J. Castell Hopkins, Life and Work of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Thompson[....] (1895), pgs. 440-1 Accessed 25 December 2019</ref>

Ethnologist crashes Dogribs' three-week muskox hunt<ref>Frank Russell, "Chapter VII; The Musk-Ox Hunt," Explorations in the Far North: Being the Report of an Expedition[....] (1898), pgs. 108-19 Accessed 19 December 2019</ref>

Chignecto Ship Railway would shorten voyages of eastern New Brunswick, P.E.I. and other shipping to U.S.A.<ref>"The Ship Railway; Its Commercial Importance Set Forth," Daily Telegraph reprint (September 12, 1894). Accessed 19 December 2019 http://www.lib.unb.ca/archives/finding/ketchum/series25a.html (scroll down to "46" and click image)</ref>

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