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1893 in Canada

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1893 in Canada

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Events from the year 1893 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

  • Monarch – Victoria

Federal government

  • Governor General – Frederick Stanley (until September 18) then John Hamilton-Gordon
  • Prime Minister – John Thompson
  • Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario)
  • Parliament – 7th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

  • Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Edgar Dewdney
  • Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz
  • Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley (until September 21) then John Boyd (September 21 to December 4) then John James Fraser (from December 20)
  • Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly
  • Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – George Airey Kirkpatrick
  • Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Jedediah Slason Carvell
  • Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau

Premiers

  • Premier of British Columbia – Theodore Davie
  • 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
  • Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Joseph Royal (until October 31) then Charles Herbert Mackintosh

Premiers

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

Events

  • May 27 – Algonquin Provincial Park is established as a wildlife sanctuary in Ontario.
  • September 16 – Calgary is incorporated as a city.
  • October 27 – The National Council of Women of Canada meets for the first time.
  • December 18 – Robert Machray is elected first Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.

Full date unknown

  • The Redpath Library is bestowed upon McGill University.
  • Canada Evidence Act created.
  • Jacques Cartier Monument (Montreal) unveiled.

Sport

  • March 22 – The Montreal Hockey Club wins the First Stanley Cup by defeating the Ottawa Hockey Club 3 to 1 at Montreal's Victoria Rink

Births

January to June

  • January 8 – Jean Désy, diplomat (d.1960)
  • February 7 – Joseph Algernon Pearce, astrophysicist (d.1988)
  • April 16 – Germaine Guèvremont, French-Canadian writer (d.1968)
  • May 5 – J. Dewey Soper, Arctic explorer, zoologist, ornithologist and author (d.1982)
  • May 7 – Frank J. Selke, ice hockey manager (d.1985)
  • May 28 – Donald MacLaren, World War I flying ace, businessman (d.1988)
  • June 5 – George Croil, first Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Canadian Air Force (d.1959)
  • June 16 – Ernest Lloyd Janney, Provisional Commander of the Canadian Aviation Corps (d.1941)
  • June 20 – Austin Claude Taylor, politician (d.1965)
  • June 23 – Merrill Denison, playwright (d.1975)

July to December

  • July 7 – James White, World War I flying ace (d.1972)
  • August 18 – Ernest MacMillan, conductor and composer (d.1973)
  • August 21 – Wilfred Curtis, Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Canadian Air Force (d.1977)
  • October 12 – George Hodgson, swimmer and double Olympic gold medallist (d.1983)
  • November 12 – Roy Kellock, jurist and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (d.1975)
  • November 22 – Raymond Collishaw, World War I flying ace (d.1976)
  • December 8 – J. Arthur Ross, politician (d.1958)
  • December 23 – John Patrick Barry, politician and lawyer (d.1946)
  • December 23 – Roy Brown, World War I flying ace (d.1944)

Full date unknown

  • Parr, artist (d.1969)

Deaths

January to June

John Abbott
  • January 26 – James Armstrong, politician (b.1830)
  • February 18 – George-Édouard Desbarats, printer and inventor (b.1838)
  • March 18 – David H. Armstrong, United States Senator from Missouri from 1877 till 1879. (b.1812)
  • March 30 – Jane Mackenzie, second wife of Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b.1825)
  • April 2 – Eden Colvile, Governor of Rupert's Land (b.1819)

July to December

  • July 22 – John Rae, doctor and explorer (b.1813)
  • September 19 – Alexander Tilloch Galt, politician and a Father of Confederation (b.1817)
  • October 30 – John Abbott, politician and 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (b.1821)
  • November 9 – Henri Bernier, politician, businessman and manufacturer (b.1821)
  • December 9 – Charles Sangster, poet (b.1822)

References

References

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