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1886 in Canada

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Events from the year 1886 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

Monarch – Victoria

Federal government

Governor General – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice
Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald
Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick)
Parliament – 5th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clement Francis Cornwall
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Cox Aikins
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Matthew Henry Richey
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Beverley Robinson
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Andrew Archibald Macdonald
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Rodrigue Masson

Premiers

Premier of British Columbia – William Smithe
Premier of Manitoba – John Norquay
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
Premier of Quebec – John Jones Ross

Territorial governments

Lieutenant governors

Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Cox Aikins
Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Edgar Dewdney

Events

March 25 – Workman's Compensation Act passed in Ontario
April 6 – Vancouver incorporated as a city
April 26 – 1886 New Brunswick general election
June 7 – Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau becomes the first Canadian cardinal
June 8 to 15 – 1886 Nova Scotia general election: William Stevens Fielding's Liberals win a third consecutive majority.
June 13 – Great Vancouver Fire
June 30 – 1886 Prince Edward Island general election: William Wilfred Sullivan Conservatives win a fifth consecutive majority.
July 20 – 1886 British Columbia general election
October 14 – 1886 Quebec general election: Honoré Mercier's Liberals win a majority
December 9 – 1886 Manitoba general election
December 14 – Yoho National Park established
December 28 – 1886 Ontario general election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a fifth consecutive majority.

Full date unknown

Mohawk men of the Caughnawaga Reserve in Quebec are trained to help build a bridge across the St. Lawrence River, beginning a tradition of high steel construction work among the Iroquois.
Construction begins on the Banff Springs Hotel

Births

January 15 – C. D. Howe, politician and Minister (d.1960)
January 21 – George Kingston, meteorologist (b.1816)
May 13 – William John Patterson, politician and 6th Premier of Saskatchewan (d.1976)
August 4 – Pierre-François Casgrain, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (d.1950)
August 30 – Ray Lawson, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1980)
September 20 – John Murray Anderson, Canadian-born American actor, dancer, theatre director (d. 1954 in the United States)
October 16 – Joseph-Arthur Bradette, politician (d.1961)

Deaths

March 30 – Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, politician and 6th Premier of Quebec (b.1837)
March 31 – Amos Wright, farmer and politician (b.1809)
June 25
- Auguste Achintre, journalist and essayist (b.1834)
- Jean-Louis Beaudry, entrepreneur, politician and 11th Mayor of Montreal (b.1809)
July 4 – Poundmaker, Cree chief (b. c1842)
November 23 – William Jack, astronomer (b.1817)

References

"Queen Victoria {{!}} The Canadian Encyclopedia".

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