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1895 in Canada

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1895 in Canada

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Events from the year 1895 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

  • Monarch – Victoria

Federal government

  • Governor General – John Hamilton-Gordon
  • Prime Minister – Mackenzie Bowell
  • Chief Justice of Canada – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario)
  • Parliament – 7th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

  • Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Edgar Dewdney
  • Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz (until September 2) then James Colebrooke Patterson
  • 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 – George William Howlan
  • Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau

Premiers

  • Premier of British Columbia – Theodore Davie (until March 4) then John Herbert Turner
  • 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 (until September 2) then James Colebrooke Patterson
  • Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Charles Herbert Mackintosh

Premiers

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

Events

  • March – Maria Grant is the first woman in Canada to be elected to any office. She served six years on the Victoria School Board and was presented to the future George V as the only woman elected as a school trustee in Canada.
  • March 2 – Theodore Davie resigns as premier of British Columbia
  • March 4 – John Herbert Turner becomes premier of British Columbia
  • April 16 – The town of Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, is incorporated.
  • April 24 – Jean-Olivier Chénier Monument unveiled
  • July 1 – Maisonneuve Monument unveiled
  • October 2 – Additional provisional districts of the North-West Territories are established: the districts of Ungava, Mackenzie, Yukon, and Franklin. The districts of Keewatin and Athabaska are enlarged so that all points of Canada are either within a province or a district.
  • The Chinese Board of Trade is formed in Vancouver
  • First ascent of Mount Hector in Banff National Park.

Sport

  • March 9 – The Montreal Hockey Club wins their second Stanley Cup by defeating Queen's University 5 goals to 1 at Montreal's Victoria Rink

Births

January to June

  • February 1 – Conn Smythe, ice hockey manager and owner (d.1980)
  • February 15 – Earl Thomson, athlete and Olympic gold medallist (d.1971)
  • March 23 – John Robert Cartwright, jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (d.1979)
  • April 30 – Philippe Panneton, physician, academic, diplomat and writer (d.1960)
  • May 12 – William Giauque, chemist and Nobel laureate (d.1982)
  • May 27 – Douglas Lloyd Campbell, politician and 13th Premier of Manitoba (d.1995)

July to December

Leslie Frost
  • July 5 – Frederic McGrand, physician and politician (d. 1988)
  • July 7 – Thane Campbell, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1978)
  • July 29 – Albert A. Brown, politician and lawyer (d.1971)
  • September 7 – Pete Parker, radio announcer (d.1991)
  • September 18 – John Diefenbaker, politician and 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1979)
  • September 20 – Leslie Frost, politician and 16th Premier of Ontario (d.1973)
  • November 5 – Howard Charles Green, politician and Minister (d.1989)
  • December 1 – Edwin Hansford, politician (d.1959)

Deaths

  • January 17 – Joseph Tassé, politician (b.1848)
  • January 28 – Camille Lefebvre (b.1831)
  • April 4 – Malcolm Alexander MacLean, 1st Mayor of Vancouver (b.1842)
  • August 4 – Louis-Antoine Dessaulles, seigneur, journalist and politician (b.1818)
  • September 4 – Antoine Plamondon, artist (b.1804)
  • September 11 – Thomas Heath Haviland, politician (b.1822)
  • September 15 – Hector Berthelot, lawyer, journalist and publisher (b.1842)

References

References

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