1894 in Canada

Events from the year 1894 in Canada.

Incumbents

= Crown =

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}}

= Federal government =

Governor General – The Earl of Aberdeen
Prime Minister – John Thompson (until December 12) then Mackenzie Bowell (from December 21)
Parliament – 7th
Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario)

= Provincial governments =

== Lieutenant governors ==

Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Edgar Dewdney
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – John James Fraser
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – George Airey Kirkpatrick
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Jedediah Slason Carvell (until February 14) then George William Howlan (from February 21)
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau

==== Premiers ====

= Territorial governments =

== Lieutenant governors ==

== Premiers ==

Chairman of the Executive Committee of the North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain

Events

January 1 – the town of Calgary is incorporated as a city
February 20 – Manitoba Schools Question: The Supreme Court refuses to hear the appeal of Manitoba francophones.
April 27 – Canada's largest known landslide occurs in Saint-Alban, Quebec. It displaced {{Convert|185|e6m3|e6yd3|abbr=off}} of rock and dirt and left a {{Convert|40|m|adj=on}} scar that covered {{Convert|4.6|e6m2|e6ft2|abbr=off}}.{{cite web|title=Landslides|url=https://www.getprepared.gc.ca/cnt/hzd/lndslds-en.aspx|website=Get Prepared|publisher=Public Safety Canada|access-date=4 March 2016}}{{cite web|title=History of Saint-Alban|url=http://st-alban.qc.ca/municipalite/histoire-2/|website=Saint Alban|publisher=City of Saint Alban|language=fr|access-date=4 March 2016}}
May 17 – Pioneers' Obelisk (Montreal) unveiled
June 14 – Massey Hall opens in Toronto.
June 26 – 1894 Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a seventh majority.
June 28 – July 9 – Colonial Conference of 1894 held in Ottawa.
September 3 – Labour Day celebrated for the first time in Canada.
October 31 – The third election of the North-West Legislative Assembly.
December 12 – Prime Minister Sir John Thompson, dies of a heart attack at Windsor Castle, just hours after Queen Victoria inducted him to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
December 21 – Mackenzie Bowell becomes prime minister.

= Full date unknown =

Rondeau Provincial Park is established in southwestern Ontario.
St. Albert cheese factory is founded.

Arts and literature

Toronto Mendelssohn Choir is founded.

Sport

March 22 – Montreal Hockey Club defeats Ottawa to win the first Stanley Cup challenge.

Births

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=January to June=

January 3 – James Lorimer Ilsley, politician, Minister and jurist (d.1967)
January 5 – Norman MacKenzie, author, lawyer, professor and Senator (d.1986)
February 8 – Billy Bishop, First World War flying ace (d.1956)
May 7 – George A. Drew, politician and 14th Premier of Ontario (d.1973)
May 13 – William Earl Rowe, politician and 20th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1984)
May 29 – Beatrice Lillie, comic actress (d.1989)
June 4 – La Bolduc, singer and musician (d.1941)
June 5 – Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, newspaper proprietor and media entrepreneur (d.1976)

=July to December=

July 17 – Phillip Garratt, aviator
July 24 – Theobald Butler Barrett, politician
July 25 – Norman McLeod Rogers, lawyer, politician and Cabinet minister (d.1940)
August – Gladys Porter, politician and first female member of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia (d.1967)
September 9 – Humphrey Mitchell, politician and trade unionist (d.1950)
September 10 – H. H. Wrong, diplomat (d.1954)
October 7 – Del Lord, film director and actor (d.1970 in the United States)
November 5 – Harold Innis, professor of political economy and author (d.1952)
November 13 – James Allan, politician (d.1992)
November 26 – James Charles McGuigan, Cardinal (d.1974)
December 13 – Chester Ronning, diplomat and politician (d.1984)

Deaths

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March 19 – John Langton, businessman, political figure and civil servant (b.1808)
April 16 – Joseph-Charles Taché, a Canadian noted for his contributions to many aspects of the fabric of Canada (b.1820)
May 27 – Francis Godschall Johnson, politician (b.1817)
June 22 – Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Roman Catholic priest, missionary, author and Archbishop (b.1823)
September 5 – James Macleod, militia officer, lawyer, police officer, magistrate, judge and politician (b.1836)
September 14 – Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau, lawyer, businessman and politician (b.1808)
September 15 – Philip Carteret Hill, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1821)
October 4 - Stephen Richards, politician, Ontario MPP, and Provincial Secretary (b. 1820)
October 30 – Honoré Mercier, lawyer, journalist, politician and Premier of Quebec (b.1840)
November 28 – Patrick Leonard MacDougall, General and author (b.1819)
November 29 – Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck, Governor General (b.1819)
December 12 – John Sparrow David Thompson, lawyer, judge, politician, university professor and 4th Prime Minister of Canada (b.1845)

Historical documents

Prime Minister John Thompson's invitation to his Imperial Privy Council swearing-in at Windsor Castle [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/006003-119.01-e.php?q2=11&q3=814&sqn=740&tt=744 Clerk of the Council, Whitehall, December 8, 1894] Accessed 23 December 2019

Prime Minister John Thompson's death at Windsor Castle, and Queen Victoria's responseJ. Castell Hopkins, Life and Work of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Thompson[....] (1895), [https://archive.org/details/lifeworkofrthons00hopk/page/440 pgs. 440-1] Accessed 25 December 2019

Ethnologist crashes Dogribs' three-week muskox huntFrank Russell, "Chapter VII; The Musk-Ox Hunt," Explorations in the Far North: Being the Report of an Expedition[....] (1898), [http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2167/131.html pgs. 108-19] Accessed 19 December 2019

Chignecto Ship Railway would shorten voyages of eastern New Brunswick, P.E.I. and other shipping to U.S.A."The Ship Railway; Its Commercial Importance Set Forth," Daily Telegraph reprint (September 12, 1894). Accessed 19 December 2019 http://www.lib.unb.ca/archives/finding/ketchum/series25a.html (scroll down to "46" and click image)

References

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