1889 in Canada

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Events from the year 1889 in Canada.

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August 1 - Alexander Davie, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office.
August 2 - John Robson becomes premier of British Columbia.
September 19 - A rock slide in Quebec City kills 45
November - Neil McLeod becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Sir William Wilfred Sullivan.
November 6 - Newfoundland election: William Whiteway's Liberals win a majority, defeating Robert Thorburn's Reforms

The Dominion Women Enfranchisement Association is created to campaign for women's right to vote
An Act of the British Parliament gives control of northern Ontario to the Ontario government to allow the province to set policies to develop the region's natural resources.^[1]

February 27 - Samuel Bronfman, businessman (d.1971)
May 16 - Morris A. Gray, politician (d.1966)
August 13 - Camillien Houde, politician and four-time mayor of Montreal (d.1958)
October 13 - Douglass Dumbrille, actor (d.1974)
November 20 - John B. McNair, lawyer, politician, judge and 22nd Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (d.1968)
December 4 - Leslie Gordon Bell, politician and lawyer (d.1963)

April 9 - Andrew Charles Elliott, jurist, politician and 4th Premier of British Columbia (b. c1828)
May 4 - A. B. Rogers, surveyor (b.1829)
June 5 - John Hamilton Gray, Premier of New Brunswick (b.1814)
July 5 - John Norquay, politician and 5th Premier of Manitoba (b.1841)
August 1 - Alexander Edmund Batson Davie, politician and 7th Premier of British Columbia (b.1847)
September 5 - Louis-Victor Sicotte, lawyer, judge and politician (b.1812)
September 13 - Henry Joseph Clarke, lawyer, politician and 3rd Premier of Manitoba (b.1833)
October 28 - Alexander Morris, politician, Minister and 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (b.1826)