1895 in Canada

Events from the year 1895 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

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

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Federal government

• Governor General – John Hamilton-Gordon
• Prime Minister – Mackenzie Bowell
• Chief Justice of Canada – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario)
• Parliament – 7th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Edgar Dewdney
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz (until September 2) then James Colebrooke Patterson
• 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 – George William Howlan
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau

Premiers

• Premier of British Columbia – Theodore Davie (until March 4) then John Herbert Turner
• 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 – Frederick Peters
• Premier of Quebec – Louis-Olivier Taillon

Territorial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – John Christian Schultz (until September 2) then James Colebrooke Patterson
• Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Charles Herbert Mackintosh

Premiers

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

Events

• March – Maria Grant is the first woman in Canada to be elected to any office. She served six years on the Victoria School Board and was presented to the future George V as the only woman elected as a school trustee in Canada.
• March 2 – Theodore Davie resigns as premier of British Columbia
• March 4 – John Herbert Turner becomes premier of British Columbia
• April 16 – The town of Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, is incorporated.
• April 24 – Jean-Olivier Chénier Monument unveiled
• July 1 – Maisonneuve Monument unveiled
• October 2 – Additional provisional districts of the North-West Territories are established: the districts of Ungava, Mackenzie, Yukon, and Franklin. The districts of Keewatin and Athabaska are enlarged so that all points of Canada are either within a province or a district.
• The Chinese Board of Trade is formed in Vancouver
• First ascent of Mount Hector in Banff National Park.<ref name=bivouac/>

Sport

• March 9 – The Montreal Hockey Club wins their second Stanley Cup by defeating Queen's University 5 goals to 1 at Montreal's Victoria Rink

Births

January to June

• February 1 – Conn Smythe, ice hockey manager and owner (d.1980)
• February 15 – Earl Thomson, athlete and Olympic gold medallist (d.1971)
• March 23 – John Robert Cartwright, jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (d.1979)
• April 30 – Philippe Panneton, physician, academic, diplomat and writer (d.1960)
• May 12 – William Giauque, chemist and Nobel laureate (d.1982)
• May 27 – Douglas Lloyd Campbell, politician and 13th Premier of Manitoba (d.1995)

July to December

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Leslie Frost

• July 5 – Frederic McGrand, physician and politician (d. 1988)
• July 7 – Thane Campbell, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1978)
• July 29 – Albert A. Brown, politician and lawyer (d.1971)
• September 7 – Pete Parker, radio announcer (d.1991)
• September 18 – John Diefenbaker, politician and 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1979)
• September 20 – Leslie Frost, politician and 16th Premier of Ontario (d.1973)
• November 5 – Howard Charles Green, politician and Minister (d.1989)
• December 1 – Edwin Hansford, politician (d.1959)

Deaths

• January 17 – Joseph Tassé, politician (b.1848)
• January 28 – Camille Lefebvre (b.1831)
• April 4 – Malcolm Alexander MacLean, 1st Mayor of Vancouver (b.1842)
• August 4 – Louis-Antoine Dessaulles, seigneur, journalist and politician (b.1818)
• September 4 – Antoine Plamondon, artist (b.1804)
• September 11 – Thomas Heath Haviland, politician (b.1822)
• September 15 – Hector Berthelot, lawyer, journalist and publisher (b.1842)

Historical documents

Liberal Party of Canada pamphlet comments on economic conditions<ref>Liberal Party, "Facts for the People" (June 11, 1895). Accessed 20 December 2019</ref>

Maria Grant, elected to Victoria, B.C. school board, hopes next election will return two more women<ref>"Trustee Mrs. Grant" The Daily Colonist (March 12, 1895), pg. 6. Accessed 26 December 2019</ref>

Medical education of women, and how to answer objections to it<ref>Mrs. Ashley Carus-Wilson (Mary L.G. Petrie), "The Medical Education of Women; A Lecture" (1895). Accessed 20 December 2019</ref>

"Most opportune" that Blood Reserve agent came to Elkhorn, Man. residential school with 8 boys, for at that time Pata, from that reserve, died<ref>Letter to Superintendent General of Indian Affairs (July 31, 1895), "Reports of Superintendents and Agents," Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs(....) (1896), pg. 126. Accessed 29 November 2024</ref>

Dominion's Indian Head farm sees trees leafed out by May 1 (3 weeks early), but fruit destroyed by 18° Fahrenheit (-7° Celsius) cold snap<ref>"Experimental Farm for the North-West Territories; Report of A. Mackay, Superintendent" (November 30, 1895), Sessional Papers; Volume 6; Sixth Session of the Seventh Parliament (1896), pg. 329. Accessed 26 September 2021</ref>

Report on domestication of Barren Grounds caribou<ref>Department of the Interior, Lt. Gov. Schultz's Report on the Domestication of the Caribou of Northern Keewatin (1895). Accessed 20 December 2019</ref>

Toronto Trades and Labor Council supports continued restriction of Chinese immigration<ref>Memorial from the Legislation Committee of the Trade and Labour Council(....) Accessed 20 December 2019</ref>