1901_in_Canada
1901 in Canada
Canada-related events during the year of 1901
Events from the year 1901 in Canada.
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Crown
- Monarch – Victoria (until January 22)[1] then Edward VII[2]
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – 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
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia – Edward Gawler Prior
- Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
- Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie
- Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
- Premier of Ontario – George William Ross
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – Donald Farquharson (until December 29) then Arthur Peters
- Premier of Quebec – Simon-Napoléon Parent
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- Commissioner of Yukon – William Ogilvie (until March 11) then James Hamilton Ross
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
- January 22 – Death of Queen Victoria and ascension of King Edward VII
- March 9 — Japanese Canadians win the vote in British Columbia[specify]
- September 16 – The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary) arrive in Quebec City. They visit all provinces (except Prince Edward Island) and the districts of Assiniboia and Alberta in the North-West Territories. They also visit Newfoundland before leaving North America.
- December 12 — Guglielmo Marconi receives a transatlantic radio message at St. John's, Newfoundland
- December 18 — The Territorial Grain Growers' Association is founded
- December 29 — Arthur Peters becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Donald Farquharson
- First ascent of Mount Assiniboine by James Outram's party
- The 1901 Canadian census took place, having a large focus on the labour force, income, and wage class.[3]
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January to June
- January 12 — Jack Humphrey, painter (d.1967)
- January 14 — Dana Porter, politician and jurist (d.1967)
- January 29 — E. P. Taylor, business tycoon and race horse breeder (d.1989)
- March 4 — Wilbur R. Franks, scientist and inventor (d.1986)
- March 25 — Wilfrid Eggleston, journalist and chief censor for Canada from 1942 until 1944 (d.1985)
- April 15 — Thomas Ricketts, soldier and Victoria Cross recipient in 1918 (d.1967)
- May 5 — Donald Buchanan Blue, politician
July to December
- July 15 — James Litterick, politician
- September 8 — Harold Connolly, journalist, newspaper editor, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1980)
- September 12 — Ben Blue, Canadian-born comedian, actor (d. 1975)[4]
- September 14 — George Carlyle Marler, politician, notary and philatelist (d.1981)
- September 15 — Gweneth Lloyd, choreographer
- September 22 — Charles Brenton Huggins, physician, physiologist, cancer researcher and Nobel prize laureate (d.1997)
- October 14 — John Oates Bower, politician, businessman and executive (d.1981)
Full date unknown
- Maryon Pearson, wife of Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1989)
- January 22 — Victoria, Queen of Canada, since 1867 (b.1819)
- March 2 — George Mercer Dawson, scientist and surveyor (b.1849)
- May 4 — John Jones Ross, politician and Premier of Quebec (b.1831)
- May 7 — George Edwin King, jurist, politician and 2nd Premier of New Brunswick (b.1839)
- June 13 — Arthur Sturgis Hardy, lawyer, politician and 4th Premier of Ontario (b.1837)
- July 24 — George William Allan, politician and 11th Mayor of Toronto (b.1822)
- October 25 — Colin MacDougall, politician and lawyer (b.1834)
N.W.T. premier says territories are ready for and financially need provincial powers[5]
Influential Liberal MP Frank Oliver objects to immigration of Slavs[6]
Matron and helper at Indian residential school so overworked that spiritual training and teaching children "how to work" is ignored[7]
Manufacturing process described in huge chair factory in Owen Sound, Ontario[8]
Mining and miners in Nanaimo, BC's booming coal industry[9]
Trail, B.C. and its gold, silver and copper smelting operations described[10]
Architect gives examples of good design to counter people's ill-informed criticism[11]
Visitor laments various classes of loafer in British Columbia (Note: racial stereotypes)[12]
Humorous character study of people in dining and smoking cars on train crossing Prairies[13]
Chicken Okra à la Portugaise and other items on Chateau Frontenac menu[14]
- "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
- Tidridge, Nathan (15 November 2011). Canada's Constitutional Monarchy. Dundurn. p. 235. ISBN 978-1-55488-980-8.
- Eric W. Sager (March 1998). "THE NATIONAL SAMPLE OF THE 1901 CENSUS OF CANADA: A NEW SOURCE FOR THE STUDY OF THE WORKING CLASS" (PDF). Retrieved 8 June 2023.
- "Ben Blue, Sad-Faced Comedian, A Performer Five Decades, Dies". The New York Times. UPI. 9 March 1975.
- "Haultain Roblin All Night Debate At Indian Head On Annexation To Manitoba" Regina Leader (December 26, 1901), pg. 4. Accessed 22 January 2020
- House of Commons debate, 9th Parliament, 1st Session (April 12, 1901). Accessed 22 January 2020
- Letter of Josephine Petch (December 18, 1901), United Church of Canada Central Archives, in Denise Hildebrand, Staff Perspectives of the Aboriginal Residential School Experience: A Study of Four Presbyterian Schools, 1888-1923 pg. 165. Accessed 9 June 2021
- Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902) pgs. 11-13. Accessed 22 January 2020
- Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 214-21. Accessed 22 January 2020
- Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 251-6. Accessed 22 January 2020
- C.H.C. Wright, "Design in Modern Architecture," The Canadian Architect and Builder, Vol. XIV, No. 158 (February 1901), pgs. 40-1. Accessed 22 January 2020 http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/cab/search/imgdisplay.php?imgfile=../Volume%2014/Issue%202/v14n2p40.gif http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/cab/search/imgdisplay.php?imgfile=../Volume%2014/Issue%202/v14n2p41.gif
- Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 155-8. Accessed 22 January 2020
- Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 89-96. Accessed 22 January 2020
- "Chateau Frontenac; Quebec; Luncheon" (July 22, 1901). Accessed 22 January 2020
