1886 in Canada
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Events from the year 1886 in Canada.
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Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia â Clement Francis Cornwall
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba â James Cox Aikins
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick â Samuel Leonard Tilley
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia â Matthew Henry Richey
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario â John Beverley Robinson
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island â Andrew Archibald Macdonald
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec â Louis-Rodrigue Masson
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia â William Smithe
- Premier of Manitoba â John Norquay
- Premier of New Brunswick â Andrew George Blair
- Premier of Nova Scotia â William Stevens Fielding
- Premier of Ontario â Oliver Mowat
- Premier of Prince Edward Island â William Wilfred Sullivan
- Premier of Quebec â John Jones Ross
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
Events
- March 25 â Workman's Compensation Act passed in Ontario
- April 6 â Vancouver incorporated as a city
- April 26 â 1886 New Brunswick general election
- June 7 â Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau becomes the first Canadian cardinal
- June 8 to 15 â 1886 Nova Scotia general election: William Stevens Fielding's Liberals win a third consecutive majority.
- June 13 â Great Vancouver Fire
- June 30 â 1886 Prince Edward Island general election: William Wilfred Sullivan Conservatives win a fifth consecutive majority.
- July 20 â 1886 British Columbia general election
- October 14 â 1886 Quebec general election: Honoré Mercier's Liberals win a majority
- December 9 â 1886 Manitoba general election
- December 14 â Yoho National Park established
- December 28 â 1886 Ontario general election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a fifth consecutive majority.
Full date unknown
- Mohawk men of the Caughnawaga Reserve in Quebec are trained to help build a bridge across the St. Lawrence River, beginning a tradition of high steel construction work among the Iroquois.
- Construction begins on the Banff Springs Hotel
Births
- January 15 â C. D. Howe, politician and Minister (d.1960)
- January 21 â George Kingston, meteorologist (b.1816)
- May 13 â William John Patterson, politician and 6th Premier of Saskatchewan (d.1976)
- August 4 â Pierre-François Casgrain, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (d.1950)
- August 30 â Ray Lawson, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1980)
- September 20 â John Murray Anderson, Canadian-born American actor, dancer, theatre director (d. 1954 in the United States)
- October 16 â Joseph-Arthur Bradette, politician (d.1961)
Deaths
- March 30 â Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, politician and 6th Premier of Quebec (b.1837)
- March 31 â Amos Wright, farmer and politician (b.1809)
- June 25
- Auguste Achintre, journalist and essayist (b.1834)
- Jean-Louis Beaudry, entrepreneur, politician and 11th Mayor of Montreal (b.1809)
- July 4 â Poundmaker, Cree chief (b. c1842)
- November 23 â William Jack, astronomer (b.1817)