1900 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 – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto
• Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
• Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario)
• Parliament – 8th (until 9 October)

• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Thomas Robert McInnes (until June 21) then Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Colebrooke Patterson (until October 10) then Daniel Hunter McMillan
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly (until July 26) then Alfred Gilpin Jones
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Peter Adolphus McIntyre
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté

• Premier of British Columbia – Charles Augustus Semlin (until February 28) then Joseph Martin (February 28 to June 15) then Edward Gawler Prior
• Premier of Manitoba – Thomas Greenway (until January 10) then Hugh John Macdonald (January 10 to October 29) then Rodmond Roblin
• Premier of New Brunswick – Henry Emmerson (until August 31) then Lemuel John Tweedie
• Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
• Premier of Ontario – George William Ross
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Donald Farquharson
• Premier of Quebec – Félix-Gabriel Marchand (until October 8) then Simon-Napoléon Parent

• Commissioner of Yukon – William Ogilvie

• Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Colebrooke Patterson (until October 10) then Daniel Hunter McMillan
• Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Amédée E. Forget

• Premier of North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain

• January 8 – Hugh John Macdonald becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Thomas Greenway.
• February 18 – February 27 – Boer War: The Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry plays a decisive role in the Battle of Paardeberg.
• February 27 – Charles Semlin is dismissed as premier of British Columbia.
• February 28 – Joseph Martin becomes premier of British Columbia.
• March 16 – Boer War: Strathcona's Horse leave for South Africa.

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• April 26 – Two-thirds of Hull, Quebec, is destroyed in a fire.
• June 15 – James Dunsmuir becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Joseph Martin.

• August 31 – Lemuel John Tweedie becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Henry Emmerson.
• September 25 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand, Premier of Quebec, dies in office.
• October 8 – Simon-Napoléon Parent becomes premier of Quebec.
• October 29 – Sir Rodmond Roblin becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Hugh John Macdonald.
• November 7
• Federal election: Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Liberals win a second consecutive majority.{{Cite web |title=GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS SINCE 1867 |url=https://www.ourcommons.ca/marleaumontpetit/DocumentViewer.aspx?DocId=1001&Language=E&Sec=Ch25&Seq=11 |access-date=4 March 2024 |website=Parliament of Canada}}
• Boer War: The Battle of Leliefontein begins. Three Canadians receive the Victoria Cross for their valour in the engagement.
• December 6 – Alphonse Desjardins founds Mouvement Desjardins, the first credit union in North America.

• -The federal government doubles the head tax on Chinese immigrants
• -The Canadian Tuberculosis Association meets for the first time

• January 1 – Sam Berger, lawyer, businessman and football player (d.1992)
• January 8
• Harry Cassidy, academic, social reformer and civil servant (d.1951)
• Solon Earl Low, politician (d.1962)
• February 20 – Graham Spry, broadcasting pioneer, business executive, diplomat and socialist (d.1983)
• March 12 – David Croll, politician (d.1991)
• April 3 – Albert Walsh, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1958)
• April 19 – Roland Michener, lawyer, politician, diplomat and Governor-General of Canada (d.1991)
• April 30 – David Manners, actor (d.1998)
• May 25 – Alain Grandbois, poet (d.1975)

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• May 25 – Malcolm Norris, Métis leader (d.1967)
• May 29 – Antonio Talbot, politician (d.1980)
• June 3 – Gordon Sinclair, journalist, writer and commentator (d.1984)
• June 21 – Edward S. Rogers, Sr., inventor and radio pioneer (d.1939)

• July 6 – Paul Métivier, World War I veteran (d. 2004)
• July 23 – John Babcock, Canada's last surviving World War I veteran (d.2010)
• August 13 – Gordon Sparling, filmmaker (d.1994)
• August 23 – Frances Adaskin, pianist (d. 2001){{Cite web|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/frances-marr-adaskin-emc|title=Frances Marr Adaskin|last=King|first=Betty N.|date=July 8, 2007|website=The Canadian Encyclopedia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064437/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/frances-marr-adaskin-emc/|archive-date=March 4, 2016|access-date=October 23, 2017}}
• August 31 – James Campbell Clouston, naval officer (d.1940 in Dunkirk evacuation)
• September 6 – W. A. C. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia (d.1979)
• October 2 – Rod Keller, general (d. 1954){{Cite web|url=https://generals.dk/general/Keller/Rodney_Frederick_Leopold/Canada.html|title=Keller, Rodney Frederick Leopold|website=generals.dk|access-date=30 December 2023}}
• November 20 – Athole Shearer, actress (d.1985)
• November 27 – Jovette Bernier, journalist, author and radio show host (d.1981){{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of literature in Canada|date=2002|publisher=University of Toronto Press|editor=New, William Herbert |isbn=978-0802007612|location=Toronto, Ont.|pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofli0000unse/page/105 105]|oclc=244767732|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofli0000unse/page/105}}
• November 28 – Mary Bothwell, classical vocalist and painter (d. mid-1970s){{Cite web|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mary-bothwell-emc/|title=Mary Bothwell|date=July 2007|website=The Canadian Encyclopedia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304080951/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mary-bothwell-emc/|archive-date=March 4, 2016|access-date=October 23, 2017}}

• February 25 – Benjamin Pâquet, Roman Catholic priest and educationist (b.1832)
• March 1 – Frederick Carter, Premier of Newfoundland (b.1819)
• March 20 – George Hope Bertram, politician (b. 1847)
• August 4 – Marc-Aurèle Plamondon, lawyer, journalist, publisher, and judge (b.1823)
• August 11 – Georges-Isidore Barthe, lawyer, publisher, journalist and politician (b.1834)
• September 25 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand, journalist, author, notary, politician and 11th Premier of Quebec (b.1832)
• December 21 – Désiré Olivier Bourbeau, politician and merchant (b.1834)

Political cartoonist shows Canadian farmer's preference for Liberal over Conservative record

J.W. Bengough, "Swap?," John Wilson Bengough collection, Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 29 December 2019 http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item?id=e010958287_s1-v8

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After spreading fire destroys Ottawa power plant, House forced to adjourn as governments seek help from military and nearby cities[https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC0805_02/504?r=0&s=1 "The Fire in Hull and Ottawa"] (April 26, 1900), Official Report of the Debates of the House of Commons, Vol. LII, 4331-2. Accessed 4 July 2021

Fire that destroyed much of Hull (Gatineau), Quebec, and part of Ottawa described[https://archive.org/details/cihm_11661/page/n12 Report of the Ottawa and Hull Fire Relief Fund] (1900), pgs. 3-8. (See also [https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?idnumber=3363962&app=fonandcol photo] of fire) Accessed 29 December 2019

Hartley Bay girl describes her time in Kitimat, B.C. boarding schoolAlice Bates (Nohsdahmtk), [https://unbc.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/unbc%3A43040#page/6/mode/2up "A Home Girl's Letter"] Na-Na-Kwa, or Dawn on the Northwest Coast, No. 10 (April 1900; unpaginated). Accessed 13 April 2020

Newspaper publishers' problems with costs and paper supply"The Newspaper Situation in Canada," The Canadian Printer and Publisher, Vol. IX, No. 5 (May 1900), pgs. 1-3. Accessed 22 December 2019 https://fishercollections.library.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/cpp%3ACPP190005 (turn to page 1)

Cape Town thanks Imperial volunteer forces for their South African War service[http://website.nbm-mnb.ca/mop/displayimages/fullsize/Bettle,FE-F4-2.jpg "Thank You card, from the Citizens of Cape Town, Showing Table Bay, South Africa."] Accessed 22 December 2019

Saint John, New Brunswick program includes two women's military drill teams

[http://website.nbm-mnb.ca/mop/english/related.asp?id=1120 "Military Entertainment in Aid of the Funds of the New Brunswick Portions of the Canadian Contingents Now Taking Part in the War in South Africa."] Accessed 22 December 2019

Whitefish, spuds and Klondikers: the news from Lesser Slave Lake, N.W.T."Report from Lesser Slave Lake," Edmonton Bulletin (January 1, 1900). Accessed 22 December 2019 http://explorenorth.com/library/weekly/aa010100a.htm (scroll down to "Edmonton Bulletin.")

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