1890 in Canada

Events from the year 1890 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch — Victoria of Canada
• Governor General — Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby
• Prime Minister — John A. Macdonald

Ontario

• Lieutenant Governor — Sir Alexander Campbell
• Premier — Sir Oliver Mowat

Quebec

• Lieutenant Governor — Auguste-Real Angers
• Premier — Honore Mercier

Nova Scotia

• Lieutenant Governor — Sir Malachy Bowes Daly
• Premier — William S. Fielding

New Brunswick

• Lieutenant Governor — Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley
• Premier — Andrew G. Blair

Prince Edward Island

• Lieutenant Governor — Jedediah Slason Carvell
• Premier — Neil McLeod

Manitoba

• Lieutenant Governor — John Christian Schultz
• Premier — Thomas Greenway

British Columbia

• Lieutenant Governor — Hugh Nelson
• Premier — John Robson

Events

• March 31 — Manitoba Liberals under Thomas Greenway halt public funding of Catholic schools; causes uproar in Quebec.
• June 5 — Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a sixth consecutive majority.
• July 20 — British Columbia election
• August 10 — Prince Edward Island election

Births

January to June

Maurice Duplessis campaigning in the 1952 election

• 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 Canadian House of Commons (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 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)

Deaths

Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau in 1863

• January 1 — Joseph Godéric Blanchet, politician (b.1829)
• January 17 — François-Xavier-Anselme Trudel, politician (b.1838)
• January 25, 1890 - William Kennedy an explorer involved in the search for Sir John Franklin
• April 4 — Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Premier of Quebec (b.1820)
• April 25 — Crowfoot, a chief of the Siksika First Nation (b. c1830)
• September 26 — Henri Faraud, bishop of the Roman Catholic Church (b.1823)

• December — Silas Tertius Rand Bill, politician, merchant and shipowner (b.1842)