1896 in Canada

April 27 – Sir Mackenzie Bowell resigns as Prime Minister due to cabinet infighting. He is replaced by Sir Charles Tupper.
May 1 – Sir Charles Tupper becomes prime minister, replacing Sir Mackenzie Bowell.
May 11 – Edmund Flynn becomes Premier of Quebec, replacing Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon.
May 26 – A bridge collapse in Victoria, British Columbia kills 55 people.
June 23 – Federal election: Wilfrid Laurier's Liberals win a majority, defeating Sir Charles Tupper's Conservatives. One of the key issues in the campaign has been the Manitoba Schools Question.
July 11 – Wilfrid Laurier becomes prime minister, replacing Sir Charles Tupper.
July 20 – George Henry Murray becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing William Fielding.
July 25 – Arthur S. Hardy becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Sir Oliver Mowat.
July – James Mitchell becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Andrew Blair.
August 17 – Gold is discovered in the Yukon, prompting the Klondike gold rush.

A plan to populate the western prairies with immigration from eastern Europe is unveiled.
The first Canadian blast furnace opens in Hamilton, Ontario.

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March 8 – Charlotte Whitton, feminist, politician and mayor of Ottawa (d.1975)
March 16 – Harry Banks, soldier
March 21 – Errick Willis, politician (d.1967)
April 11 – Léo-Paul Desrosiers, journalist, writer (d.1967)
April 20 – Wilfrid R. "Wop" May, World War I flying ace and pioneering bush pilot (d.1952)
May 2 – Elmore Philpott, journalist and politician (d.1964)
May 18 – Brock Chisholm, doctor and first Director-General of the World Health Organization (d.1971)
June 22 – Leonard W. Murray, naval officer (d.1971)

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July 2 – Prudence Heward, painter (d.1947)
July 4 – Frederick Cronyn Betts, politician (d.1938)
July 10 – Thérèse Casgrain, feminist, reformer, politician and Senator (d.1981)
July 13 – John Henry Cates, businessman and political figure (d.1986)
July 27 – Anne Savage, painter and art teacher (d.1971)
August 12 – Mitchell Hepburn, politician and 11th Premier of Ontario (d.1953)
August 18 – Jack Pickford, actor (d.1933)
August 30 – Raymond Massey, actor (d.1983)
August 31 – Alice Strike, Canada's last surviving female World War I veteran (d.2004)
November 3 – Madeleine Fritz, paleontologist (d.1990)
November 7 – Henry Botterell, World War I fighter pilot (d.2003)

January 14 – Christopher William Bunting, politician, merchant, newspaper owner and newspaper publisher (b.1837)
February 20 – Hart Massey, businessman and philanthropist (b.1823)
April 13 – John Christian Schultz, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1840)
May 4 – Timothy Anglin, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (b.1822)
June 7 – Wyatt Eaton, painter (b.1849)
June 10 – Donald Alexander Macdonald, politician (b.1817)
June 19 – John Beverley Robinson, politician (b.1821)
June 25 – Samuel Leonard Tilley, Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1818)
November 24 – John James Fraser, lawyer, judge, politician and 4th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1829)
Anne Hill, dancer and actor (b. 1804)

Joshua Slocum sails Cape Horn solo on his globe-circling voyage<ref>Joshua Slocum, "(Chapter) VIII" Sailing Alone Around the World (1900). Accessed 20 December 2019</ref>

Visitor describes constant boat traffic on the Muskoka Lakes, Ontario<ref>E.C. Paget, "Letters to H.S. Moore, Esq.," A Year under the Shadow of St. Paul's[....] (1908), pgs. 187-90 Accessed 20 December 2019</ref>

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