1906 in Canada

Events from the year 1906 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Edward VII<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Federal government

• Governor General – Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey
• Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
• Chief Justice – Henri Elzéar Taschereau (Quebec) (until 2 May) then Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec) (from 2 June)
• Parliament – 10th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – George Hedley Vicars Bulyea
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Henri Joly de Lotbinière (until May 11) then James Dunsmuir
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alfred Gilpin Jones (until March 15) then Duncan Cameron Fraser
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Mortimer Clark
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Donald Alexander MacKinnon
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Amédée Forget

Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – Alexander Cameron Rutherford
• Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride
• Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
• Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie
• Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
• Premier of Ontario – James Whitney
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Arthur Peters
• Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
• Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Commissioner of Yukon – William Wallace Burns McInnes (until December 31) then John T. Lithgow (acting)
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White

Events

• January 1 – Canada's first movie theatre Ouimetoscope opens in Montreal
• January 22 – The SS Valencia strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster.
• March 27 – The Alpine Club of Canada is founded in Winnipeg by Elizabeth Parker and Arthur Oliver Wheeler.
• April 30 – The Ottawa Public Library opens
• May 7 – Ontario Hydro created
• May 23 – Regina decreed capital of Saskatchewan
• June 24 – Octave Crémazie Monument unveiled
• August 26 – Edward VII grants the Coat of Arms of Saskatchewan
• The Revillon Frères trading post opens at Fort Saint John, British Columbia, as competition against the Hudson's Bay Company
• August 28 – Treaty 10 is signed.

Sport

• February 23 – Tommy Burns becomes the First Canadian to be Boxing's Heavyweight champion by defeating Marvin Hart

Births

• January 15 – Edna Staebler, author (d. 2006)
• January 27 – Walter L. Gordon, accountant, businessman, politician and writer (d.1987)
• January 29 – Joe Primeau, ice hockey player (d.1989)
• February 14 – Roland Beaudry, politician, journalist, publicist and publisher (d.1964)
• March 10 – Lionel Bertrand, politician, journalist and newspaper editor (d.1979)
• May 15 – Robert Methven Petrie, astronomer (d.1966)
• May 16 – Alfred Pellan, painter (d.1988)
• June 22 – Stanley Fox, politician (d.1984)
• June 26 – Marian Scott, painter
• July 18 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-born American academic and politician (d. 1992)
• September 24 – Leonard Marsh, social scientist and professor (d.1983)
• November 20 – John Josiah Robinette, lawyer (d.1996)
• December 16 – Barbara Kent, Canadian actress

Deaths

• February 2 – Thomas Arkell, politician, farmer and grain merchant (b.1823)
• March 31 – James McIntyre, poet (b.1828)
• April 12 – Robert Thorburn, merchant, politician and Premier of Newfoundland (b.1836)
• May 3 – Peter White, politician (b.1838)
• May 19 – Gabriel Dumont, Metis leader (b.1837)
• June 9 – William Carpenter Bompas, Church of England clergyman, bishop and missionary (b.1834)
• June 11 – Hector-Louis Langevin, lawyer, politician and a Father of Confederation (b.1826)
• October 7 – Honoré Beaugrand, journalist, politician, author and folklorist (b.1848)

Historical documents

• Reconciling Dominion Lands Act rules on homesteading and traditional Doukhobor communal practice is complicated by poverty, religious freedom and squatting.<ref>Department of the Interior, "Memo(...)in regard to homestead entries by Doukhobors" Papers Relating to the Holding of Homestead Entries by Members of the Doukhobor Community[....] (1907), pgs. 6-11. Accessed 3 February 2020</ref>

• Rugby School lecture gives somewhat fantastic and imperial picture of life in Canada for immigrant Englishman<ref>"'Canada.' By O.H. Hanson, Esq." The Meteor, No. 473 (April 3, 1906), pgs. 43-4. Accessed 15 March 2022</ref>

• Hardships and success of Barr Colony settlers at Lloydminster, Saskatchewan<ref>"The Barr Colony after 3 Years" Edmonton Bulletin (July 30, 1906). Accessed 3 February 2020</ref>

• British printers complain of being tricked into breaking Winnipeg strike<ref>Colonial Office (London), Canada: Correspondence Relating to the Complaint of Certain Printers Who Were Induced to Emigrate to Canada by False Representations (1906). Accessed 3 February 2020</ref>

• Save Manitoba elk and moose from "the white man's lust for killing"<ref>John Percival Turner, "The Moose and Wapiti of Manitoba; A Plea for Their Preservation" The Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, Transaction No. 69 (March 8, 1906). Accessed 3 February 2020</ref>