1886 in Canada
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Events from the year 1886 in Canada.
Incumbents
= Crown =
= Federal government =
= Provincial governments =
== Lieutenant governors ==
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clement Francis Cornwall
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Cox Aikins
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Matthew Henry Richey
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Beverley Robinson
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Andrew Archibald Macdonald
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Rodrigue Masson
==== Premiers ====
- Premier of British Columbia – William Smithe
- Premier of Manitoba – John Norquay
- 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
- Premier of Quebec – John Jones Ross
= Territorial governments =
== Lieutenant governors ==
Events
- March 25 – Workman's Compensation Act passed in Ontario
- April 6 – Vancouver incorporated as a city
- April 26 – 1886 New Brunswick general election
- June 7 – Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau becomes the first Canadian cardinal
- June 8 to 15 – 1886 Nova Scotia general election: William Stevens Fielding's Liberals win a third consecutive majority.
- June 13 – Great Vancouver Fire
- June 30 – 1886 Prince Edward Island general election: William Wilfred Sullivan Conservatives win a fifth consecutive majority.
- July 20 – 1886 British Columbia general election
- October 14 – 1886 Quebec general election: Honoré Mercier's Liberals win a majority
- December 9 – 1886 Manitoba general election
- December 14 – Yoho National Park established
- December 28 – 1886 Ontario general election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a fifth consecutive majority.
=Full date unknown=
- Mohawk men of the Caughnawaga Reserve in Quebec are trained to help build a bridge across the St. Lawrence River, beginning a tradition of high steel construction work among the Iroquois.
- Construction begins on the Banff Springs Hotel
Births
- January 15 – C. D. Howe, politician and Minister (d.1960)
- January 21 – George Kingston, meteorologist (b.1816)
- May 13 – William John Patterson, politician and 6th Premier of Saskatchewan (d.1976)
- August 4 – Pierre-François Casgrain, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (d.1950)
- August 30 – Ray Lawson, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1980)
- September 20 – John Murray Anderson, Canadian-born American actor, dancer, theatre director (d. 1954 in the United States)
- October 16 – Joseph-Arthur Bradette, politician (d.1961)
Deaths
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- March 30 – Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, politician and 6th Premier of Quebec (b.1837)
- March 31 – Amos Wright, farmer and politician (b.1809)
- June 25
- Auguste Achintre, journalist and essayist (b.1834)
- Jean-Louis Beaudry, entrepreneur, politician and 11th Mayor of Montreal (b.1809)
- July 4 – Poundmaker, Cree chief (b. c1842)
- November 23 – William Jack, astronomer (b.1817)
Historical documents
Edward Blake speaks on Louis Riel's execution and Northwest maladministration[https://archive.org/details/cihm_05418/page/n5/mode/2up Dominion Election; Campaign of 1886; Hon. Edward Blake's Speeches, No. 1 (First Series)] Accessed 9 October 2019
Wilfrid Laurier's House of Commons speech condemns Louis Riel's execution[http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1480/3.html House of Commons Debates; Speech of Mr. Wilfred (sic) Laurier, M.P., on the Riel Question(...)] (1886?). Accessed 9 October 2019
Crown issues amnesty for all those not convicted of crimes in 1885 conflict
Ojibwe, Cree and Inuit medical practice and materials (Note: "primitive" and other stereotypes)Robert Bell, MD, [https://archive.org/details/b22294351/page/n2/mode/2up The "Medicine-Man," or, Indian and Eskimo Notions of Medicine(....)] (1886). Accessed 6 December 2019
Painting: Agent dispenses flour rations to Siksika peopleWilliam Brymner, [https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/william-brymner/key-works/giving-out-rations-to-the-blackfoot-indians-nwt/ "Giving Out Rations to the Blackfoot Indians, NWT"] (1886), Art Gallery of Hamilton. Accessed 18 May 2022
Account of destruction of Vancouver by fireEdward Roper, By Track and Trail; A Journey through Canada[...] (1891), [http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1967/344.html pgs. 286]-9. Accessed 9 October 2019
"Decent Canadian" robs Qu'Appelle stage coach[http://www.rootsweb.com/~cansk/SaskatchewanAndItsPeople/Volume2/stagerobbery.html "Evolution of Towns and Villages; A Remarkable Stage Robbery"] Saskatchewan and Its People; 1924; Volume II. Accessed 9 October 2019
New York City businessman wants Chief Poundmaker for Buffalo Bill's Wild West show[https://archive.org/details/correspondenceof00macduoft/page/374/mode/1up "From Erastus Wiman, Esq., to Sir John Macdonald"] Correspondence of Sir John Macdonald[...] (1921), pg. 374. Accessed 9 October 2019
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