1889 in Canada
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Events from the year 1889 in Canada.
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Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia â Hugh Nelson
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba â John Christian Schultz
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick â Samuel Leonard Tilley
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia â Archibald McLelan
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario â Alexander Campbell
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island â A.A. Macdonald (until September 2) then Jedediah Slason Carvell
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec â Auguste-Réal Angers
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia â Alexander Edmund Batson Davie (until August 1) then John Robson (from August 2)
- Premier of Manitoba â Thomas Greenway
- 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 (until November 1) then Neil McLeod
- Premier of Quebec â Honoré Mercier
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Events
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- August 1 â Alexander Davie, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office.
- August 2 â John Robson becomes premier of British Columbia.
- August 12 â The Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act, 1889 of the British Parliament expands Ontario's boundaries west to the Lake of the Woods and north to the Albany River.[2]
- September 19 â A rockslide in Quebec City kills 45
- November â Neil McLeod becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Sir William Wilfred Sullivan.
- November 6 â Newfoundland election: William Whiteway's Liberals win a majority, defeating Robert Thorburn's Reforms
Full date unknown
- The Dominion Women Enfranchisement Association is created to campaign for women's right to vote
Births
- February 27 â Samuel Bronfman, businessman (d.1971)
- May 16 â Morris Gray, politician (d.1966)
- August 13 â Camillien Houde, politician and four-time mayor of Montreal (d.1958)
- October 13 â Douglass Dumbrille, actor (d.1974)
- November 20 â John B. McNair, lawyer, politician, judge and 22nd Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (d.1968)
- December 4 â Leslie Gordon Bell, politician and lawyer (d.1963)
Deaths
- April 9 â Andrew Charles Elliott, jurist, politician and 4th Premier of British Columbia (b. c1828)
- May 4 â A. B. Rogers, surveyor (b.1829)
- June 5 â John Hamilton Gray, Premier of New Brunswick (b.1814)
- July 5 â John Norquay, politician and 5th Premier of Manitoba (b.1841)
- August 1 â Alexander Edmund Batson Davie, politician and 7th Premier of British Columbia (b.1847)
- September 5 â Louis-Victor Sicotte, lawyer, judge and politician (b.1812)
- September 13 â Henry Joseph Clarke, lawyer, politician and 3rd Premier of Manitoba (b.1833)
- October 28 â Alexander Morris, politician, Minister and 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (b.1826)
Full date unknown
- Edwin Randolph Oakes, politician (b.1818)