1892 in Canada

Events from the year 1892 in Canada.

Incumbents

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June 29 – John Robson, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office
July 2 – Theodore Davie becomes Premier of British Columbia
July 8 – The Great Fire of 1892 destroys two-thirds of St. John's, Newfoundland
July 9 – Parliament passes the Criminal Code, 1892, the first unified criminal law for all of Canada, under the direction of the Minister of Justice, John Thompson
November 24 – Sir John Abbott resigns as Prime Minister
December 5 – Sir John Thompson becomes Prime Minister
December 16 – Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon becomes premier of Quebec for the second time, replacing Sir Charles-Eugène de Boucherville

The Toronto Star founded
Harbord Collegiate Institute was opened
Humberside Collegiate Institute opened
Worthington, Ontario, is incorporated as a mining community.{{cn|date=November 2021}}
The first Canadian National Rugby-Football Championship game is played (Osgoode Hall defeats Montreal 45–5).{{cn|date=November 2021}}

First documented women's ice hockey game takes place in Barrie, Ontario playing on an outdoor ice surface.

July 8 – Sir Victor Tait, Canadian-born British airman and businessman (d.1988)
July 14 – John Sissons, barrister, author, judge and politician (d.1969)
August 2 – Jack L. Warner, studio mogul (d.1978)
August 18 – Hal Foster, cartoonist (d.1982)
September 21 – Donald Elmer Black, politician
September 24 – Adélard Godbout, politician and 15th Premier of Quebec (d.1956)
October 25 – Nell Shipman, actress, screenwriter, producer and animal trainer (d.1970)
December 27 – Alfred Edwin McKay, World War I flying ace (d. 1917 in Belgium)

January 1 – John Chipman Wade, politician and lawyer (b.1817)
January 20 – Samuel Barton Burdett, politician, lawyer and lecturer (b.1843)
March 7 – Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1820)
April 6 – John Ostell, architect, surveyor and manufacturer (b.1813)
April 17 – Alexander Mackenzie, building contractor, newspaper editor, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b.1822)
May 24 – Alexander Campbell, politician, Senator and 6th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1822)
June 9 – William Grant Stairs, explorer, soldier and adventurer (b.1863)
June 29 – John Robson, journalist, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b.1824)
July 15 – William Donahue, merchant and politician (b.1834)
August 30 – Frederick Newton Gisborne, Laid first under-sea cable in North America
September 12 – Marc-Amable Girard, politician, Senator and 2nd Premier of Manitoba (b.1822)
December 14 – Adams George Archibald, politician (b.1814)

Newspaper coverage of Great Fire of St. John's, Newfoundland"Great Fire; Burning of Saint John's East on the 8th July Last - Origin of the Fire and Its Disastrous Effects[....]," The (St. John's) Evening Telegram (September 1, 1892), [https://collections.mun.ca/digital/collection/telegram18/id/41549 pg. 2] Accessed 23 December 2019

U.S. accuses Canadian Pacific Railway of helping Chinese illegally cross border from British ColumbiaUnited States Department of State, "Mr. Herbert to Mr. Foster [and enclosures]," The Executive Documents of the House of Representatives for the Second Session of the Fifty-Second Congress; 1892-'93, [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=goto&id=FRUS.FRUS189293v01&isize=L&submit=Go+to+page&page=309 pgs. 309-10] Accessed 19 December 2019

Running Wolf and Owl Child's performance of Moon Dance describedPhilip H. Godsell (ed.), [https://albertaonrecord.ca/iw-glen-646;rad "Part 5; Moon Dance"] The R.N. Wilson Papers, Volume II (1958). Accessed 19 December 2019

"Completely won the hearts of her audience" - Poet of Kanien'kéhà:ka origin, Pauline Johnson, gives first solo recital in TorontoE. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), "Biographical Sketch," [https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcbooks/items/1.0384219 Flint and Feather] (1912?), pg. xvi (PDF pg. 24). Accessed 13 November 2022

English visitor rides out from Lethbridge, Alberta to watch 2000-head cattle roundupP.R. Ritchie, Manitoba and the North-West Territories: Being a Report by Mr. P.R. Ritchie of Essex, England, of a Tour [in] 1892 (1892), [http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2027/19.html pgs. 18-19] Accessed 19 December 2019