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1898 in Canada

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1898 in Canada

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Events from the year 1898 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

  • Monarch – Victoria

Federal government

  • Governor General – John Hamilton-Gordon, 7th Earl of Aberdeen (until November 12) then Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto
  • Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
  • Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario)
  • Parliament – 8th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

  • Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Thomas Robert McInnes
  • Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Colebrooke Patterson
  • Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
  • Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly
  • Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
  • Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – George William Howlan
  • Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau (until January 20) then Louis-Amable Jetté

Premiers

  • Premier of British Columbia – John Herbert Turner (until August 15) then Charles Augustus Semlin
  • Premier of Manitoba – Thomas Greenway
  • Premier of New Brunswick – Henry Emmerson
  • Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
  • Premier of Ontario – Arthur Sturgis Hardy
  • Premier of Prince Edward Island – Alexander Warburton (until August 1) then Donald Farquharson
  • Premier of Quebec – Félix-Gabriel Marchand

Territorial governments

Commissioners

  • Commissioner of Yukon – James Morrow Walsh (until July 5) then William Ogilvie

Lieutenant governors

  • Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Colebrooke Patterson
  • Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Charles Herbert Mackintosh (until May 30) then Malcolm Colin Cameron (May 30 to September 26) then Amédée E. Forget (from October 4)

Premiers

  • Premier of North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain

Events

  • March 1 – 1898 Ontario election: A. S. Hardy's Liberals win a majority.
  • June 13 – Yukon becomes a distinct territory from the North-West Territories.
  • July 29 – White Pass and Yukon Route opens (Skagway–Whitehorse).
  • August – Donald Farquharson becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing A. B. Warburton.
  • August 8 – John Herbert Turner is dismissed as premier of British Columbia.
  • August 15 – Charles Semlin becomes premier of British Columbia.
  • September 11 – New Westminster, British Columbia destroyed by fire.
  • September 29 – The Canadian referendum on the prohibition of alcohol.
  • November 4 – The fourth election of the North-West Legislative Assembly.

Full date unknown

  • The Parliament of Canada passes the Quebec Boundary Extension Act, expanding the provincial boundaries northward to include the lands of the aboriginal Cree.
  • Kit Coleman covers the Spanish–American War as Canada's first female war correspondent.

Births

  • May 17 – A. J. Casson, Canadian painter (d. 1992)
  • May 20 – Paul Gouin, politician (d.1976)
  • May 27 – William Arthur Irwin, journalist
  • July 7 – Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside, diplomat, civil servant and 5th Commissioner of the Northwest Territories (d.1992)
  • July 15 – Howard Graham, army officer (d. 1986)
  • July 17 – Osmond Borradaile, cameraman, cinematographer and veteran of First and Second World War (d.1999)
  • August 23 – Brooke Claxton, politician and Minister (d.1960)
  • August 27
    • Gaspard Fauteux, politician, Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada and Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (d.1963)
    • John Hamilton, bank robber (d. 1934)
  • August 30 – Gleason Belzile, politician (d.1950)
  • November 9 – Emmett Matthew Hall, jurist, civil libertarian and Supreme Court justice (d.1995)
  • December 1 – Stuart Garson, politician, Minister and 12th Premier of Manitoba (d.1977)
  • December 15 – George Lawrence Price, last Commonwealth casualty of World War I (d.1918)

Full date unknown

  • Maurice Spector, Chairman of the Communist Party of Canada (d.1968)

Deaths

Theodore Davie
  • January 1 – John Arthur Fraser, artist (b.1838)
  • February 15 – Wilfrid Prévost, lawyer and politician (b.1832)
  • March 7 – Theodore Davie, lawyer, politician and 9th Premier of British Columbia (b.1852)
  • May 1 – Nazaire-Nicolas Olivier, lawyer and politician (b. c1860)
  • May 13 – François Bourassa, farmer and politician (b.1813)
Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
  • April 12 – Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Archbishop of Quebec (b.1820)
  • June 13 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, lawyer, politician and 5th Premier of Quebec (b.1840)
  • July 14 – Louis-François Richer Laflèche, diocese of Trois-Rivières (b.1818)
  • August 24 – Casimir Gzowski, engineer (b.1813)

References

References

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