1889 in Canada
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Events from the year 1889 in Canada.
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[edit] Events
- 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
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- 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]
[edit] Births
- 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)
[edit] Deaths
- 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)
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- Edwin Randolph Oakes, politician (b.1818)