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1904 in Canada

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1904 in Canada

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Events from the year 1904 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

  • Monarch – Edward VII

Federal government

  • Governor General – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (until December 10) then Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey
  • Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
  • Chief Justice – Henri Elzéar Taschereau (Quebec)
  • Parliament – 9th (until 29 September)

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

  • Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
  • Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
  • Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
  • Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alfred Gilpin Jones
  • Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Mortimer Clark
  • Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Peter A. McIntyre (until October 3) then Donald Alexander MacKinnon
  • Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté

Premiers

  • Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride
  • Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
  • Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie
  • Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
  • Premier of Ontario – George William Ross
  • Premier of Prince Edward Island – Arthur Peters
  • Premier of Quebec – Simon-Napoléon Parent

Territorial governments

Commissioners

  • Commissioner of Yukon – Frederick Tennyson Congdon (until October 29) then Zachary Taylor Wood (acting)

Lieutenant governors

  • Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – Daniel Hunter McMillan
  • Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Amédée E. Forget

Premiers

  • Premier of North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain

Events

  • April 8 – In the Lansdowne-Cambon Convention France gives up some of its longstanding rights in Newfoundland
  • April 19 – The Great Toronto Fire destroys much of that city's downtown, but kills no one.
  • June 24 – The North-West Mounted Police become the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
  • September 10 – American criminal Bill Miner stages Canada's first-ever train robbery
  • October 8 – Edmonton is incorporated as a city of the North-West Territories.

Full date unknown

  • Henry Ford opens an automobile manufacturing plant in Windsor, Ontario
  • Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg opens
  • Creation of Marionville, Ontario, the only village (for now) that shares the 3 Canadian municipalities.

Births

January to June

  • January 4 – Pegi Nicol MacLeod, artist (d.1949)
  • January 14 – Walter Harris, politician and lawyer (d.1999)
  • February 29 – Lloyd Stinson, politician (d.1976)
  • March 6 – Farquhar Oliver, politician (d.1989)
  • March 26 – Gustave Biéler, Special Operations Executive agent during World War II (d.1944)
  • April 16 – Fifi D'Orsay, actress (d.1983)
  • April 26 – Paul-Émile Léger, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d.1991)
  • May 1 – Wally Downer, politician (d.1994)
  • May 13 – Earle Birney, poet (d.1995)
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  • May 29 – Eugene Forsey, politician and constitutional expert (d.1991)
  • June 26 – Frank Scott Hogg, astrophysicist (d.1951)

July to December

  • July 22 – Donald O. Hebb, psychologist (d.1985)
  • August 15 – George Klein, inventor (d. 1992)
  • September 7 – Matthew Halton, radio and television journalist (d.1956)
  • September 14 – Frank Amyot, sprint canoer and Olympic gold medallist (d.1962)
  • September 23 – Geoffrey Waddington, conductor
  • September 29 – Robert Legget, civil engineer, historian and non-fiction writer (d.1994)
  • October 20 – Tommy Douglas, politician and Premier of Saskatchewan (d.1986)
  • November 18 – Jean Paul Lemieux, painter (d.1990)
  • November 26 – Armand Frappier, physician and microbiologist (d.1991)
  • December 18 – Wilf Carter, country music singer, songwriter, guitarist and yodeller (d.1996)
  • December 25 – Gerhard Herzberg, physicist and physical chemist (d.1999)
  • December 28 – Bobbie Rosenfeld, athlete and Olympic gold medallist (d.1969)
  • December 29 – Léo Gauthier, politician (d.1964)

Deaths

  • January 9 – Christian Kumpf, mayor of Waterloo, Ontario (b. 1838)
  • February 9 – Erastus Wiman, journalist and businessman (b.1834)
  • March 9 – Robert Machray, clergyman, missionary and first Primate of the Church of England in Canada (b.1831)
  • April 17 – Joseph Brunet, politician and businessman (b.1834)
  • May 11 – David Breakenridge Read, lawyer and 14th Mayor of Toronto (b. 1823)
  • August 8 – James Cox Aikins, politician, Minister and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1823)
  • August 31 – Jean-Baptiste Blanchet, politician (b.1842)
  • September 26 – John Fitzwilliam Stairs, entrepreneur and statesman (b.1848)

References

References

  1. (15 November 2011). "Canada's Constitutional Monarchy". Dundurn.
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