1892 in Canada

Crown

• Monarch – Victoria^[1]

Federal government

• Governor General – Frederick Stanley
• Prime Minister – John Abbott (until November 24) then John Thompson (from December 5)
• Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick) (until 25 September) then Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario) (from 13 December)
• Parliament – 7th

Provincial governments

Territorial governments

Full date unknown

• The Toronto Star founded
• Harbord Collegiate Institute was opened
• Humberside Collegiate Institute opened
• Worthington, Ontario, is settled as a mining community.^[2]
• The first Canadian National Rugby-Football Championship game is played (Osgoode Hall defeats Montreal 45–5).^{[citation needed]}

January to June

• March 4 – J.-Eugène Bissonnette, politician and physician
• April 8 – Mary Pickford, actress and studio co-founder (d.1979)
• May 3 – Jacob Viner, economist (d.1970)
• May 18 – John Croak, VC
• June 2 – Edward LeRoy Bowerman, politician (d.1977)

July to December

• July 8 – Sir Victor Tait, Canadian-born British airman and businessman (d.1988)
• July 14 – John Sissons, barrister, author, judge and politician (d.1969)
• August 2 – Jack L. Warner, studio mogul (d.1978)
• August 18 – Hal Foster, cartoonist (d.1982)
• September 21 – Donald Elmer Black, politician
• September 24 – Adélard Godbout, politician and 15th Premier of Quebec (d.1956)
• October 25 – Nell Shipman, actress, screenwriter, producer and animal trainer (d.1970)
• December 27 – Alfred Edwin McKay, World War I flying ace (d. 1917 in Belgium)