1898 in Canada

Events from the year 1898 in Canada.

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March 1 â 1898 Ontario election: A. S. Hardy's Liberals win a majority.
June 13 â Yukon becomes a distinct territory from the North-West Territories.
July 29 â White Pass and Yukon Route opens (SkagwayâWhitehorse).
August â Donald Farquharson becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing A. B. Warburton.
August 8 â John Herbert Turner is dismissed as premier of British Columbia.
August 15 â Charles Semlin becomes premier of British Columbia.
September 11 â New Westminster, British Columbia destroyed by fire.
September 29 â The Canadian referendum on the prohibition of alcohol.
November 4 â The fourth election of the North-West Legislative Assembly.

The Parliament of Canada passes the Quebec Boundary Extension Act, expanding the provincial boundaries northward to include the lands of the aboriginal Cree.
Kit Coleman covers the SpanishâAmerican War as Canada's first female war correspondent.

May 17 â A. J. Casson, Canadian painter (d. 1992)
May 20 â Paul Gouin, politician (d.1976)
May 27 â William Arthur Irwin, journalist
July 7 â Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside, diplomat, civil servant and 5th Commissioner of the Northwest Territories (d.1992)
July 15 â Howard Graham, army officer (d. 1986)
July 17 â Osmond Borradaile, cameraman, cinematographer and veteran of First and Second World War (d.1999)
August 23 â Brooke Claxton, politician and Minister (d.1960)
August 27
- Gaspard Fauteux, politician, Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada and Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (d.1963)
- John Hamilton, bank robber (d. 1934)
August 30 â Gleason Belzile, politician (d.1950)
November 9 â Emmett Matthew Hall, jurist, civil libertarian and Supreme Court justice (d.1995)
December 1 â Stuart Garson, politician, Minister and 12th Premier of Manitoba (d.1977)
December 15 â George Lawrence Price, last Commonwealth casualty of World War I (d.1918)