1888_in_Canada
1888 in Canada
Canada-related events during the year of 1888
Events from the year 1888 in Canada.
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Crown
Federal government
- Governor General – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice (until June 11) then 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 – James Cox Aikins (until July 1) then John Christian Schultz
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Matthew Henry Richey (until July 8) then Archibald McLelan
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Alexander Campbell
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Andrew Archibald Macdonald
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia – Alexander Edmund Batson Davie
- Premier of Manitoba – David Howard Harrison (until January 19) then 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 – William Wilfred Sullivan
- Premier of Quebec – Honoré Mercier
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Cox Aikins (until July 1) then John Christian Schultz
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Edgar Dewdney (until July 1) then Joseph Royal
Premiers
- January 19 – Thomas Greenway becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing David H. Harrison.
- June 20 – The Northwest Territories holds its first general election; 22 members of the Legislative Assembly are elected. All are independents; there are no party politics in the territories.
- July 11 – The Manitoba general election is held.
Full date unknown
- Boundary survey started by Dr. William H. Dall of the United States and Dr. George M. Dawson of Canada.
New books
- Among the Millet: Archibald Lampman
January to June
- January 18 – Charles Gavan Power, politician, Minister and Senator (d.1968)
- January 20 – Ethel Wilson, novelist and short story writer (d.1980)
- February 28 – George Pearkes, politician, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (d.1984)
- March 24 – Samuel Rosborough Balcom, politician (d.1981)
- April 6 – Leonard Brockington, lawyer, civil servant and first head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) (d.1966)
- April 8 – Dora Mavor Moore, actor, teacher and director (d.1979)
- April 23
- Joseph Georges Bouchard, politician (d.1956)
- Georges Vanier, soldier, diplomat and Governor General of Canada (d.1967)
- April 28 – Harry Crerar, General (d.1965)
- May 3 – Johan Helders, photographer
July to December
- July 11 – John Keiller MacKay, soldier, jurist and 19th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1970)
- August 3 – Margaret Murray, journalist
- September 2 – Dorothy Stevens, artist
- September 7 – William Bryce, politician
- September 15 – Filip Konowal, soldier, Victoria Cross recipient in 1917 (d.1959)
- September 18
- Grey Owl, writer and conservationist (d.1938)
- William Duncan Herridge, politician and diplomat (d.1961)
- October 23 – Onésime Gagnon, politician and the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d.1961)
- November 3 – Joseph Oscar Lefebre Boulanger, politician and lawyer (d.1958)
- November 11 – S. E. Rogers, politician (d.1965)
- November 25 – Joseph W. Noseworthy, politician (d.1956)
- December 2 – Major James Coldwell, politician (d.1974)
- January 17 – Big Bear, Cree leader (b. c1825)
- February 4 – Sévère Rivard, lawyer, politician and 17th Mayor of Montreal (b.1834)
- March 2 – William Elliott, farmer, merchant and politician (b.1834)
- April 21 – Thomas White, journalist and politician (b.1830)
- May 3 – William Alexander Henry, politician (b.1816)
- May 12 – Élie Saint-Hilaire, educator, farmer and politician (b.1839)
- May 30 – James Ferrier, merchant, politician and 4th Mayor of Montreal (b.1800)
- August 4 – Charles-Joseph Coursol, lawyer, politician and 13th Mayor of Montreal (b.1819)
- August 24 – John Rose, politician (b.1820)
- October 1 – James Gibb Ross, merchant and politician (b.1819)
House of Commons committee hears of cartels conspiring to control products ranging from groceries to coal to stoves and coffins[2]
Sandford Fleming's ideas on telegraph line to Australia[3]
U.S. Supreme Court rules on Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent in light of previous invention claimed by "a poor mechanic"[4]
Brief visit to Chinatown temple in Victoria, B.C.[5]
In report on northern lands, Senate committee points out unwanted wildlife loss from "greater ease in their capture" and use of poison[6]
Lecturer describes dogs of Hudson Strait Inuit[7]
- "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- Report of the Select Committee Appointed(...)to Investigate and Report upon Alleged Combinations in Manufactures, Trade and Insurance in Canada (May 16, 1888). Accessed 9 October 2020
- "Pacific Cable Telegraph between Canada and Australia[...]," Privy Council Minutes, February 18–27, 1888, pgs. 331-5. Accessed 10 October 2019 http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/politics-government/orders-council/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=41533 (flip to pg. 331 and click on image to enlarge)
- Chief Justice Waite, "Telephone Cases (Part Three Three)" (March 18, 1888). Accessed 10 October 2020