1884 in Canada

• Monarch – Victoria{{cite web |title=Queen Victoria {{!}} The Canadian Encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/victoria# |website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca |access-date=5 December 2022}}

• Governor General – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice
• Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald
• Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick)
• Parliament – 5th

• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clement Francis Cornwall
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Cox Aikins
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Robert Duncan Wilmot
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Matthew Henry Richey
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Beverley Robinson
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Thomas H. Haviland (until July 18) then Andrew Archibald Macdonald
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Théodore Robitaille (until October 4) then Louis-Rodrigue Masson

• Premier of British Columbia – William Smithe
• Premier of Manitoba – John Norquay
• Premier of New Brunswick – Andrew George Blair
• Premier of Nova Scotia – William Thomas Pipes (until July 15) then William Stevens Fielding (from July 28)
• Premier of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – William Wilfred Sullivan
• Premier of Quebec – Joseph-Alfred Mousseau (until January 23) then John Jones Ross

• Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Cox Aikins
• Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Edgar Dewdney

• January 2 – "Humber Railway Disaster" 32 men and boys were killed upon the head-on collision of a Grand Trunk Railway commuter train with an unscheduled freight train No. 42C near Toronto. Most of the dead were workers being transported on the freight train to the Ontario Bolt Works in Swansea, Ontario.
• January 10 – David Scott elected as the first mayor of Regina
• January 17 – The Parliament Building's new electric lights were turned on, for the first time.{{cite web|url=http://www.parl.gc.ca/About/House/Collections/collection_profiles/CP_electrification-e.htm|title=The House of Commons Heritage Collection|publisher=parl.gc.ca|access-date=2012-07-16|date=March 2011}}
• January 23 – John Jones Ross becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Joseph-Alfred Mousseau.
• June 22 – The seven surviving members of the 25-man Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, led by Adolphus Greely, are rescued by Winfield Scott Schley. One more died on the homeward journey.{{cite news |title=Discovery Of Seven Survivors of Lieut. Greeley's Party |work=The Cornishman |issue=314 |date=24 July 1884 |page=7}}
• July 28 – William Fielding becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing William Pipes.
• September 15 – The Nile Voyageurs depart for Africa
• October 15 – The La Presse newspaper is founded
• November 7 – Calgary is incorporated as a town, changing its name from Fort Calgary
• Parliament of Canada passes the Indian Advancement Act, encouraging democratic elections of chiefs. Mohawks at St. Regis, Ontario, resist the provision, preferring their traditional method of choosing leaders.

• February 10 – Rork Scott Ferguson, politician (d.unknown)
• February 18 – Andrew Watson Myles, politician (d.1970)
• April 6 – Walter Huston, actor (d.1950)
• April 12 – Maurice Brasset, politician and lawyer (d.1971)
• April 30 – Murdoch Mackay, politician (d.1963)
• May 1 – Henry Norwest, sniper in World War I (d.1918)
• June 11 – William George Bock, politician (d.1973)

• July 25 – Davidson Black, paleoanthropologist (d.1934)
• August 27 – John Edward Brownlee, politician and 5th Premier of Alberta (d.1961)
• September 2 – Angus MacInnis, politician (d.1964)
• September 27 – Silby Barrett, labour leader
• December 15 – James Macdonnell, soldier, lawyer and politician (d.1973)

• January 14 – Pierre-Eustache Dostaler, farmer and politician (b.1809)
• January 31 – Charles Dewey Day, lawyer, judge and politician (b.1806)
• February 20 – Abram William Lauder, lawyer and politician (b.1834)

• John Ferris, businessman, explorer and politician (b.1811)

Opposition Leader Edward Blake touches on several Liberal Party principles and political points[http://www.archive.org/details/cihm_00176 "Speech of the Hon. Edward Blake before the Young Men's Liberal Club of Toronto(...)"] The (Montreal) Times (January 17, 1884). Accessed 14 October 2019

Essay on disadvantages of Confederation for ManitobaHenry T. Burgess, [http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1303/6.html Manitoba and Confederation] (1884). Accessed 7 October 2019

Winnipegger Alexander Begg lectures in London on his years in the NorthwestAlexander Begg, [http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1199.html Seventeen Years in the Canadian North-West] (1884). Accessed 7 October 2019

Report on Indigenous peoples of Northwest (Note: "savage," other stereotypes)George Bryce, [http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1207/3.html "Our Indians;" Delivered before the Y.M.C.A., Winnipeg(...)]. Accessed 14 October 2019

Witnesses describe tense stand-off between Mounties and armed group of CreeCampbell Innes, The Cree Rebellion of 1884, or, Sidelights on Indian Conditions Subsequent to 1876 (1926), [http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1250/31.html pgs. 11], 15-17, 39, 42-3. Accessed 6 October 2019

Touring British scientists find Chief Crowfoot selling his personal items at Gleichen, AlbertaBritish Association for the Advancement of Science, Report of the Visit of the British Association to the Canadian North-West[...] (1884), [http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1283/12.html pg. 12]. Accessed 6 October 2019

Louis Riel is asked to return from exileCanada; Department of the Secretary of State; Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, [http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1588/2.html Return (in Part) to an Address of the House of Commons(...): For Copies of All Papers Found in the Council Room of the Insurgents(...)] (1886). Accessed 7 October 2019

Letter of Louis Riel declining invitation to speak in Prince AlbertLouis Riel, [http://digital.scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/solr?query=ID%3A26199&start=0&rows=10&mode=view&pos=0&page=4 "To the gentlemen who kindly invite me to hold a public meeting in Prince Albert"] Morton Manuscripts Collection, University of Saskatchewan Libraries Special Collections. Accessed 7 October 2019

Anglophone Quebeckers assess agricultural and forestry advantages of Calgary regionThomas Shepard Barwis, Calgary, Alberta, and the Canadian North West: Valuable Information for Intending Settlers (1885), [http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1196/9.html pg 5]. Accessed 7 October 2019

Newspaper controversy over encouraging deaf people to settle in NorthwestJane Elizabeth Groom and "H.H.," A Future for the Deaf and Dumb in the Canadian North-West (1884), [http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1240/19.html pgs. 18-20]. Accessed 7 October 2019

Nova Scotia woman writes to her mother about losing her newborn child[http://atlanticportal.hil.unb.ca/acva/en/mcqueen/letters/search/text.php?pt=1&d=628 Dove Crowell to Catherine McQueen, October 21, 1884, Yarmouth] The McQueen Family Papers, Atlantic Canada Virtual Archives. Accessed 7 October 2019

"A young man of unbounded enthusiasm," Ernest Thompson Seton becomes ornithology director at Canadian Postal College of the Natural Sciences[https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.8_04165_1/18?r=0&s=1 "Secretary's Report; Another Director"] The Canadian Science Monthly, Vol. II, No. 3 (March 1884), pg. 47. Accessed 3 April 2022

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