1889 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 – Frederick Stanley
• Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald
• Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick)
• Parliament – 6th

• 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

• 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

• Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – John Christian Schultz
• Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Joseph Royal

• Chairman of the Lieutenant-Governor's Advisory Council of the North-West Territories – Robert Brett

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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.mndmf.gov.on.ca/about/historical_perspective_e.asp |title=A Historical Perspective on the North |publisher=Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry |access-date=2011-08-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110822084737/http://www.mndmf.gov.on.ca/about/historical_perspective_e.asp |archive-date=2011-08-22 }}
• 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

• 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)

• Edwin Randolph Oakes, politician (b.1818)

Archbishop Taché cites education report from England to support Manitoba separate schools[http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1822/3.html "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

Report on repatriating French Canadians living in New EnglandRev. C.A. Beaudry, [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/021017/f1/nlc011403-v6.jpg "No. 35; Report on French Canadian Repatriation"] Sessional Papers (No. 6) (1890), pg. 165. Accessed 11 October 2019

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 townsDepartment 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

Table: In all 6 New England states, whites with both parents born in "Canada (French)" far outnumber those with parents born in "Canada (English)"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

"A thrill of horror pulsed through the whole city last night" - Rockslide from cliff below Citadel destroys several Quebec City houses"The Old Story!; Another Fatal Landslide," [https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3614043 Quebec Morning Chronicle] Vol. XLIII, No. 15,407 (September 20, 1889), pg. 2. Accessed 27 May 2022

Canada should be equal to Britain in Empire, and under "Queen of Canada"[https://archive.org/details/lifelettersofsir01skeluoft/page/n8 Globe editorial excerpt] in Oscar Douglas Skelton, Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier; Volume I (1921), pg. 366 footnote. Accessed 19 October 2019

John A. Macdonald on missed opportunity to create Kingdom of Canada with "gradation of classes"[http://www.archive.org/stream/correspondenceof00macduoft#page/450/mode/2up "From Sir John Macdonald to the (1st) Baron Knutsford"] Correspondence of Sir John Macdonald[...] (1921), pgs. 450-1. Accessed 11 October 2019

Methodist minister's brief description of Stoneys concentrates on their problems[http://scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/solr?query=ID%3A24619&mode=view&pos=0&page=4 "Letter from Rev. John Nelson, dated, Woodville Mission, March 7th, 1889"] The Missionary Outlook, Vol. IX, No. 5, pg. 79. Accessed 11 October 2019

Nova Scotia orphanage holds housewarmingEmma M. Stirling, Our Children in Old Scotland and Nova Scotia (1892), pgs. [http://archive.org/stream/cihm_28004#page/n113/mode/2up 106]-10. Accessed 11 October 2019

Ad for "Aphroditine[...]Sold on positive guarantee to cure any form of nervous disease, or any disorder of the generative organs"[http://archive.org/details/dailycolonist18891218uvic/mode/1up?view=theater "The Celebrated French Cure, Aphroditine"] The Daily [Victoria, B.C.] Colonist, Vol. LXIII, No. 7 (December 18, 1889), pg. 1. Accessed 10 April 2022

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