1887 in Canada
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Events from the year 1887 in Canada.
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Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
- Governor General â Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice
- Prime Minister â John A. Macdonald
- Chief Justice â William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick)
- Parliament â 5th (until 15 January) then 6th (from 13 April)
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia â Clement Francis Cornwall (until February 8) then Hugh Nelson
- 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 (until June 1) then Alexander Campbell
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island â Andrew Archibald Macdonald
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec â Louis-Rodrigue Masson (until October 4) then Auguste-Réal Angers
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia â William Smithe (until March 28) then Alexander Edmund Batson Davie (from April 1)
- Premier of Manitoba â John Norquay (until December 26) then David Howard Harrison
- 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 (until January 25) then Louis-Olivier Taillon (January 25 to January 27) then Honoré Mercier
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
Events
- January 25 â Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon becomes premier of Quebec, replacing John Jones Ross.
- January 27 â Honoré Mercier becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon.
- February 22 â Federal election: Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority.
- March 3 â The United States imposes the Fisheries Retaliation Act putting limits on Canadian fishermen and traders
- March 28 â William Smithe, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office.
- April 1 â Alexander Davie becomes premier of British Columbia.
- April 23 â McMaster University founded
- May 3 â 148 coal miners are killed in a mine explosion near Nanaimo, British Columbia
- June 7 â Wilfrid Laurier becomes leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
- June 20 â Golden Jubilee of Victoria's accession as Queen
- December 3 â Saturday Night founded
- December 26 â David H. Harrison becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing John Norquay.
- The first premiers' conference is held at Quebec City, Quebec
Births
January to June
- January 21 â Georges Vézina, ice hockey player (d.1926)
- February 20 â Vincent Massey, lawyer, diplomat and Governor General of Canada (d.1967)
- February 25 â Andrew McNaughton, army officer, politician and diplomat (d.1966)
- April 13 â Gordon S. Fahrni, medical doctor (d.1995)
- May 21 â James Gladstone, first Status Indian to be appointed to the Senate of Canada (d.1971)
July to December
- July 4 â Tom Longboat, long-distance runner (d.1949)
- July 5 â Joseph Charles-Ãmile Trudeau, entrepreneur and father of Pierre Trudeau, who would later become Prime Minister of Canada (d.1935)
- September 17 â Georges Poulin, hockey player (d. 1971)
- October 8 â Huntley Gordon, actor (d. 1956)
- October 14 â Frances Loring, sculptor (d.1968)
- December 20 â Walter Russell Shaw, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1981)
Deaths
- February 25 â Augustin-Magloire Blanchet, missionary (b.1797)
- March 28 â William Smithe, politician and 6th Premier of British Columbia (b.1842)
- May 4 â William Murdoch, poet (b.1823)
- May 8 â Sir William Young, Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1799)
- June 25 â Matthew Crooks Cameron, lawyer, judge and politician (b.1822)
- August 18 â John Palliser, explorer and geographer (b.1817)
- October 11 â Louis-Adélard Senécal, businessman and politician (b.1829)
- October 12 â William Annand, 2nd Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1808)