1890 in Canada

Crown

• Monarch – Victoria^[1]

Federal government

• Governor General – Frederick Stanley
• Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald
• Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick)
• Parliament – 6th

Provincial governments

Territorial governments

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)