1890 in Canada

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Events from the year 1890 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Victoria^[1]

Federal government

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

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• 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 (until June 26) then Malachy Bowes Daly (from July 11)
• Alexander Campbell
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Jedediah Slason Carvell
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers

Premiers

• Premier of British Columbia – John Robson
• 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 – Neil McLeod
• Premier of Quebec – Honoré Mercier

Territorial governments

Lieutenant governors

• 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

• March 31 —
  Catholic schools; causes uproar in Quebec
  .
• June 5 —
  Liberals
  win a sixth consecutive majority.
• July 20 — British Columbia election.
• August 10 — Prince Edward Island election.

Births

January to June

• April 20 — Maurice Duplessis, politician and 16th Premier of Quebec (d.1959)
• March 3 — Norman Bethune, physician and medical innovator (d.1939)
• March 21 — Norman Hipel, politician and Minister (d.1953)
• March 24 — Agnes Macphail, politician, first woman to be elected to the House of Commons of Canada (d.1954)
• March 27 — John Horne Blackmore, politician (d.1971)
• May 4 — Franklin Carmichael, painter and Group of Seven member (d.1945)
• May 17 — Lionel FitzGerald, artist
• May 30 — John Stuart Foster, physicist (d.1944)

July to December

• July 9 – Joseph-Alphida Crête, politician (d. 1964)
• July 27 — Ian Alistair Mackenzie, politician and Minister (d.1949)
• August 10 — Angus Lewis Macdonald, lawyer, law professor, politician and 19th Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1954)
• September 20 — Kathleen Parlow, violinist (d.1963)
• October 9 — Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist (d.1944)
• October 28 — Louis Orville Breithaupt, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1960)
• December 10 —
  Byron Ingemar Johnson, politician and 24th Premier of British Columbia (d.1964
  )
• December 12 – Charles Basil Price, soldier and politician (d. 1975)

Deaths

• January 1 —
  Joseph Godéric Blanchet, politician (b.1829
  )
• January 17 — François-Xavier-Anselme Trudel, politician (b.1838)
• January 25 –
  Sir John Franklin (b.1814
  )
• February 13 — Éphrem-A. Brisebois, police officer (b. 1850)
• April 4 — Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Premier of Quebec (b.1820)
• April 25 — Crowfoot, a chief of the Siksika First Nation (b. c1830)
• September 26 —
  Roman Catholic Church (b.1823
  )
• December — Silas Tertius Rand Bill, politician, merchant and shipowner (b.1842)

Historical Documents

Editorial tries to convince eastern Canadians to go west instead of south^[2]

Australians advised to avoid Canada's example of "disunion" as they consider federation^[4]

British socialist newspaper decries "that venerable fraud and child kidnapper, Doctor Barnardo" shipping boys to Canada^[5]

Victoria, B.C. Free Public Library has popular novels of Scott, Dickens, Trollope and Thackeray, and also Bulwer, Yonge, Braddon and Ouida^[6]

Montreal impresaria brings Metropolitan Opera orchestra (featuring Victor Herbert) to play symphonic favourites^[7]

Long neglected, foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is coming back into favour in gardens^[8]

References