1889_in_Canada
1889 in Canada
Canada-related events during the year of 1889
Events from the year 1889 in Canada.
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Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Hugh Nelson
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Archibald McLelan
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Alexander Campbell
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – A.A. Macdonald (until September 2) then Jedediah Slason Carvell
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia – Alexander Edmund Batson Davie (until August 1) then John Robson (from August 2)
- 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 – William Wilfred Sullivan (until November 1) then Neil McLeod
- Premier of Quebec – Honoré Mercier
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
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- August 1 – Alexander Davie, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office.
- August 2 – John Robson becomes premier of British Columbia.
- August 12 – The Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act, 1889 of the British Parliament expands Ontario's boundaries west to the Lake of the Woods and north to the Albany River.[2]
- September 19 – A rockslide in Quebec City kills 45
- November – Neil McLeod becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Sir William Wilfred Sullivan.
- November 6 – Newfoundland election: William Whiteway's Liberals win a majority, defeating Robert Thorburn's Reforms
Full date unknown
- The Dominion Women Enfranchisement Association is created to campaign for women's right to vote
- February 27 – Samuel Bronfman, businessman (d.1971)
- May 16 – Morris Gray, politician (d.1966)
- August 13 – Camillien Houde, politician and four-time mayor of Montreal (d.1958)
- October 13 – Douglass Dumbrille, actor (d.1974)
- November 20 – John B. McNair, lawyer, politician, judge and 22nd Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (d.1968)
- December 4 – Leslie Gordon Bell, politician and lawyer (d.1963)
- April 9 – Andrew Charles Elliott, jurist, politician and 4th Premier of British Columbia (b. c1828)
- May 4 – A. B. Rogers, surveyor (b.1829)
- June 5 – John Hamilton Gray, Premier of New Brunswick (b.1814)
- July 5 – John Norquay, politician and 5th Premier of Manitoba (b.1841)
- August 1 – Alexander Edmund Batson Davie, politician and 7th Premier of British Columbia (b.1847)
- September 5 – Louis-Victor Sicotte, lawyer, judge and politician (b.1812)
- September 13 – Henry Joseph Clarke, lawyer, politician and 3rd Premier of Manitoba (b.1833)
- October 28 – Alexander Morris, politician, Minister and 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (b.1826)
Full date unknown
- Edwin Randolph Oakes, politician (b.1818)
Archbishop Taché cites education report from England to support Manitoba separate schools[3]
Report on repatriating French Canadians living in New England[4]
Table: Of 7 U.S. cities with more than 10,000 Canadian-born residents (including Newfoundlanders), 4 are in New England, mostly in 3 industrial towns[5]
Table: In all 6 New England states, whites with both parents born in "Canada (French)" far outnumber those with parents born in "Canada (English)"[6]
"A thrill of horror pulsed through the whole city last night" - Rockslide from cliff below Citadel destroys several Quebec City houses[7]
Canada should be equal to Britain in Empire, and under "Queen of Canada"[8]
John A. Macdonald on missed opportunity to create Kingdom of Canada with "gradation of classes"[9]
Methodist minister's brief description of Stoneys concentrates on their problems[10]
Nova Scotia orphanage holds housewarming[11]
Ad for "Aphroditine[...]Sold on positive guarantee to cure any form of nervous disease, or any disorder of the generative organs"[12]
- "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- "A Historical Perspective on the North". Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry. Archived from the original on 2011-08-22. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
- "Archbishop Tache Thinks his Ideas with Regard to Religious Instruction in Schools fully Corroborated in England" Two Letters of Archbishop Taché on the School Question (1889). Accessed 20 October 2019
- Rev. C.A. Beaudry, "No. 35; Report on French Canadian Repatriation" Sessional Papers (No. 6) (1890), pg. 165. Accessed 11 October 2019
- Department of the Interior, Census Office, Report on Population of the United States at the Eleventh Census: 1890, pg. 670. (Note: enter URL usa.ipums.org/usa/resources/voliii/pubdocs/1890/1890a_v1-16.pdf#[0,{%22name%22:%22FitH%22},805] and scroll to PDF frame 66) Accessed 26 February 2023
- Department of the Interior, Census Office, Report on Population of the United States at the Eleventh Census: 1890, pgs. 684-5. (Note: enter URL usa.ipums.org/usa/resources/voliii/pubdocs/1890/1890a_v1-17.pdf#[0,{%22name%22:%22FitH%22},807] and scroll to PDF frame 5) Accessed 26 February 2023
- "The Old Story!; Another Fatal Landslide," Quebec Morning Chronicle Vol. XLIII, No. 15,407 (September 20, 1889), pg. 2. Accessed 27 May 2022
- Globe editorial excerpt in Oscar Douglas Skelton, Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier; Volume I (1921), pg. 366 footnote. Accessed 19 October 2019
- "From Sir John Macdonald to the (1st) Baron Knutsford" Correspondence of Sir John Macdonald[...] (1921), pgs. 450-1. Accessed 11 October 2019
- "Letter from Rev. John Nelson, dated, Woodville Mission, March 7th, 1889" The Missionary Outlook, Vol. IX, No. 5, pg. 79. Accessed 11 October 2019
- "The Celebrated French Cure, Aphroditine" The Daily [Victoria, B.C.] Colonist, Vol. LXIII, No. 7 (December 18, 1889), pg. 1. Accessed 10 April 2022
