1890_in_Canada
1890 in Canada
Canada-related events during the year of 1890
Events from the year 1890 in Canada.
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Crown
Federal government
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)
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Alexander Campbell
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Jedediah Slason Carvell
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers
Premiers
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
- March 31 — Manitoba Liberals under Thomas Greenway halt public funding of Catholic schools; causes uproar in Quebec.
- June 5 — Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a sixth consecutive majority.
- July 20 — British Columbia election.
- August 10 — Prince Edward Island election.
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)
- January 1 — Joseph Godéric Blanchet, politician (b.1829)
- January 17 — François-Xavier-Anselme Trudel, politician (b.1838)
- January 25 – William Kennedy, explorer involved in the search for 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 — Henri Faraud, bishop of the Roman Catholic Church (b.1823)
- December — Silas Tertius Rand Bill, politician, merchant and shipowner (b.1842)
Editorial tries to convince eastern Canadians to go west instead of south[2]
British Methodist Episcopal bishop steals hearts of Canadian Methodist conference participants (Note: racial stereotypes)[3]
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]
- "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- Edmonton Bulletin excerpt in The Regina Leader (January 28, 1890), pg. 4. Accessed 2 December 2019
- S.J. Celestine Edwards, From Slavery to a Bishopric, or, The Life of Bishop Walter Hawkins(....) (1891), pgs. 156-8. Accessed 2 December 2019
- Debates of the Federation Conference, 1890; Held in the Parliament House, Melbourne (February 11, 1890), pgs. 139-41. Accessed 2 December 2019
- "Notes on News" The Commonweal; The Official Journal of the Socialist League, Vol. 6, No. 241 (August 23, 1890), pg. 267. Accessed 17 January 2021
- "Catalogue of Books in the Free Public Library of Victoria City" pgs. 65-97. Accessed 11 July 2021
- "Herr Anton Seidl and Orchestra of Metropolitan Opera House, New York[....]" Accessed 28 May 2020 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_KzqIHf8ly5R0swbmV5ZnphOU0/view (scroll down to pg. 181)
- Wilbur F. Lake, "The Foxglove as a Border Plant" The Canadian Horticulturist, Vol. XXXI, No. 1 (January 1890), pgs. 18-20. Accessed 20 March 2020