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1894 in Canada

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1894 in Canada

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Events from the year 1894 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

  • Monarch – Victoria

Federal government

  • Governor General – The Earl of Aberdeen
  • Prime Minister – John Thompson (until December 12) then Mackenzie Bowell (from December 21)
  • Parliament – 7th
  • Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario)

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

  • Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Edgar Dewdney
  • Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz
  • 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 – Jedediah Slason Carvell (until February 14) then George William Howlan (from February 21)
  • 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 – Charles Herbert Mackintosh

Premiers

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

Events

  • January 1 – the town of Calgary is incorporated as a city
  • February 20 – Manitoba Schools Question: The Supreme Court refuses to hear the appeal of Manitoba francophones.
  • April 27 – Canada's largest known landslide occurs in Saint-Alban, Quebec. It displaced 185 e6m3 of rock and dirt and left a 40 m scar that covered 4.6 e6m2.
  • May 17 – Pioneers' Obelisk (Montreal) unveiled
  • June 14 – Massey Hall opens in Toronto.
  • June 26 – 1894 Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a seventh majority.
  • June 28 – July 9 – Colonial Conference of 1894 held in Ottawa.
  • September 3 – Labour Day celebrated for the first time in Canada.
  • October 31 – The third election of the North-West Legislative Assembly.
  • December 12 – Prime Minister Sir John Thompson, dies of a heart attack at Windsor Castle, just hours after Queen Victoria inducted him to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
  • December 21 – Mackenzie Bowell becomes prime minister.

Full date unknown

  • Rondeau Provincial Park is established in southwestern Ontario.
  • St. Albert cheese factory is founded.

Arts and literature

  • Toronto Mendelssohn Choir is founded.

Sport

  • March 22 – Montreal Hockey Club defeats Ottawa to win the first Stanley Cup challenge.

Births

George Alexander Drew in 1947

January to June

  • January 3 – James Lorimer Ilsley, politician, Minister and jurist (d.1967)
  • January 5 – Norman MacKenzie, author, lawyer, professor and Senator (d.1986)
  • February 8 – Billy Bishop, First World War flying ace (d.1956)
  • May 7 – George A. Drew, politician and 14th Premier of Ontario (d.1973)
  • May 13 – William Earl Rowe, politician and 20th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1984)
  • May 29 – Beatrice Lillie, comic actress (d.1989)
  • June 4 – La Bolduc, singer and musician (d.1941)
  • June 5 – Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, newspaper proprietor and media entrepreneur (d.1976)

July to December

  • July 17 – Phillip Garratt, aviator
  • July 24 – Theobald Butler Barrett, politician
  • July 25 – Norman McLeod Rogers, lawyer, politician and Cabinet minister (d.1940)
  • August – Gladys Porter, politician and first female member of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia (d.1967)
  • September 9 – Humphrey Mitchell, politician and trade unionist (d.1950)
  • September 10 – H. H. Wrong, diplomat (d.1954)
  • October 7 – Del Lord, film director and actor (d.1970 in the United States)
  • November 5 – Harold Innis, professor of political economy and author (d.1952)
  • November 13 – James Allan, politician (d.1992)
  • November 26 – James Charles McGuigan, Cardinal (d.1974)
  • December 13 – Chester Ronning, diplomat and politician (d.1984)

Deaths

John Sparrow David Thompson
  • March 19 – John Langton, businessman, political figure and civil servant (b.1808)
  • April 16 – Joseph-Charles Taché, a Canadian noted for his contributions to many aspects of the fabric of Canada (b.1820)
  • May 27 – Francis Godschall Johnson, politician (b.1817)
  • June 22 – Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Roman Catholic priest, missionary, author and Archbishop (b.1823)
  • September 5 – James Macleod, militia officer, lawyer, police officer, magistrate, judge and politician (b.1836)
  • September 14 – Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau, lawyer, businessman and politician (b.1808)
  • September 15 – Philip Carteret Hill, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1821)
  • October 4 - Stephen Richards, politician, Ontario MPP, and Provincial Secretary (b. 1820)
  • October 30 – Honoré Mercier, lawyer, journalist, politician and Premier of Quebec (b.1840)
  • November 28 – Patrick Leonard MacDougall, General and author (b.1819)
  • November 29 – Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck, Governor General (b.1819)
  • December 12 – John Sparrow David Thompson, lawyer, judge, politician, university professor and 4th Prime Minister of Canada (b.1845)

Historical documents

Prime Minister John Thompson's invitation to his Imperial Privy Council swearing-in at Windsor Castle

Prime Minister John Thompson's death at Windsor Castle, and Queen Victoria's response

Ethnologist crashes Dogribs' three-week muskox hunt

Chignecto Ship Railway would shorten voyages of eastern New Brunswick, P.E.I. and other shipping to U.S.A.

References

References

  1. "Queen Victoria {{!}} The Canadian Encyclopedia".
  2. "Landslides". Public Safety Canada.
  3. "History of Saint-Alban". City of Saint Alban.
  4. [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/006003-119.01-e.php?q2=11&q3=814&sqn=740&tt=744 Clerk of the Council, Whitehall, December 8, 1894] Accessed 23 December 2019
  5. J. Castell Hopkins, ''Life and Work of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Thompson''[....] (1895), [https://archive.org/details/lifeworkofrthons00hopk/page/440 pgs. 440-1] Accessed 25 December 2019
  6. Frank Russell, "Chapter VII; The Musk-Ox Hunt," ''Explorations in the Far North: Being the Report of an Expedition''[....] (1898), [http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2167/131.html pgs. 108-19] Accessed 19 December 2019
  7. "The Ship Railway; Its Commercial Importance Set Forth," Daily Telegraph reprint (September 12, 1894). Accessed 19 December 2019 http://www.lib.unb.ca/archives/finding/ketchum/series25a.html (scroll down to "46" and click image)
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