1884 in Canada
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Events from the year 1884 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
- Governor General – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice
- Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald
- Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick)
- Parliament – 5th
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clement Francis Cornwall
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Cox Aikins
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Robert Duncan Wilmot
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Matthew Henry Richey
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Beverley Robinson
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Thomas H. Haviland (until July 18) then Andrew Archibald Macdonald
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Théodore Robitaille (until October 4) then 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 Thomas Pipes (until July 15) then William Stevens Fielding (from July 28)
- Premier of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – William Wilfred Sullivan
- Premier of Quebec – Joseph-Alfred Mousseau (until January 23) then John Jones Ross
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Cox Aikins
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Edgar Dewdney
Events
- January 2 – "Humber Railway Disaster" 32 men and boys were killed upon the head-on collision of a Swansea, Ontario.
- January 10 – David Scott elected as the first mayor of Regina
- January 17 – The electric lights were turned on, for the first time.[2]
- January 23 – John Jones Ross becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Joseph-Alfred Mousseau.
- June 22 – The seven surviving members of the 25-man Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, led by Adolphus Greely, are rescued by Winfield Scott Schley. One more died on the homeward journey.[3]
- July 28 – William Pipes.
- September 15 – The Nile Voyageurs depart for Africa
- October 15 – The La Presse newspaper is founded
- November 7 – Calgary is incorporated as a town, changing its name from Fort Calgary
- Mohawks at St. Regis, Ontario, resist the provision, preferring their traditional method of choosing leaders.
Births
January to June
- February 10 – Rork Scott Ferguson, politician (d.unknown)
- February 18 – Andrew Watson Myles, politician (d.1970)
- April 6 – Walter Huston, actor (d.1950)
- April 12 – Maurice Brasset, politician and lawyer (d.1971)
- April 30 – Murdoch Mackay, politician (d.1963)
- May 1 – Henry Norwest, sniper in World War I (d.1918)
- June 11 – William George Bock, politician (d.1973)
July to December
- July 25 – Davidson Black, paleoanthropologist (d.1934)
- August 27 – John Edward Brownlee, politician and 5th Premier of Alberta (d.1961)
- September 2 – Angus MacInnis, politician (d.1964)
- September 27 – Silby Barrett, labour leader
- December 15 – James Macdonnell, soldier, lawyer and politician (d.1973)
Deaths
- January 14 – Pierre-Eustache Dostaler, farmer and politician (b.1809)
- January 31 – Charles Dewey Day, lawyer, judge and politician (b.1806)
- February 20 – Abram William Lauder, lawyer and politician (b.1834)
Full date unknown
- John Ferris, businessman, explorer and politician (b.1811)
Historical documents
Opposition Leader Edward Blake touches on several Liberal Party principles and political points[4]
Essay on disadvantages of Confederation for Manitoba[5]
Winnipegger Alexander Begg lectures in London on his years in the Northwest[6]
Report on
Witnesses describe tense stand-off between Mounties and armed group of Cree[8]
Touring British scientists find Chief Crowfoot selling his personal items at Gleichen, Alberta[9]
Louis Riel is asked to return from exile[10]
Letter of Louis Riel declining invitation to speak in Prince Albert[11]
Anglophone Quebeckers assess agricultural and forestry advantages of Calgary region[12]
Newspaper controversy over encouraging deaf people to settle in Northwest[13]
Nova Scotia woman writes to her mother about losing her newborn child[14]
"A young man of unbounded enthusiasm," Ernest Thompson Seton becomes ornithology director at Canadian Postal College of the Natural Sciences[15]
References
- ^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ^ "The House of Commons Heritage Collection". parl.gc.ca. March 2011. Retrieved 2012-07-16.
- ^ "Discovery Of Seven Survivors of Lieut. Greeley's Party". The Cornishman. No. 314. 24 July 1884. p. 7.
- ^ "Speech of the Hon. Edward Blake before the Young Men's Liberal Club of Toronto(...)" The (Montreal) Times (January 17, 1884). Accessed 14 October 2019
- ^ Henry T. Burgess, Manitoba and Confederation (1884). Accessed 7 October 2019
- ^ Alexander Begg, Seventeen Years in the Canadian North-West (1884). Accessed 7 October 2019
- ^ George Bryce, "Our Indians;" Delivered before the Y.M.C.A., Winnipeg(...). Accessed 14 October 2019
- ^ Campbell Innes, The Cree Rebellion of 1884, or, Sidelights on Indian Conditions Subsequent to 1876 (1926), pgs. 11, 15-17, 39, 42-3. Accessed 6 October 2019
- ^ British Association for the Advancement of Science, Report of the Visit of the British Association to the Canadian North-West[...] (1884), pg. 12. Accessed 6 October 2019
- ^ Canada; Department of the Secretary of State; Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Return (in Part) to an Address of the House of Commons(...): For Copies of All Papers Found in the Council Room of the Insurgents(...) (1886). Accessed 7 October 2019
- ^ Louis Riel, "To the gentlemen who kindly invite me to hold a public meeting in Prince Albert" Morton Manuscripts Collection, University of Saskatchewan Libraries Special Collections. Accessed 7 October 2019
- ^ Thomas Shepard Barwis, Calgary, Alberta, and the Canadian North West: Valuable Information for Intending Settlers (1885), pg 5. Accessed 7 October 2019
- ^ Jane Elizabeth Groom and "H.H.," A Future for the Deaf and Dumb in the Canadian North-West (1884), pgs. 18-20. Accessed 7 October 2019
- ^ Dove Crowell to Catherine McQueen, October 21, 1884, Yarmouth The McQueen Family Papers, Atlantic Canada Virtual Archives. Accessed 7 October 2019
- ^ "Secretary's Report; Another Director" The Canadian Science Monthly, Vol. II, No. 3 (March 1884), pg. 47. Accessed 3 April 2022