1890 in Canada
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| Years in Canada: | 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 |
| Centuries: | 18th century · 19th century · 20th century |
| Decades: | 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s |
| Years: | 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 |
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Events from the year 1890 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
- Head of state (monarch) – Queen Victoria (consort – Vacant)
Federal government
- Governor general – Frederick Stanley (viceregal consort – Lady Constance Villiers)
- Prime minister – John A. Macdonald
- Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick)
- Parliament – 6th
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Hugh Nelson
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Archibald McLelan (until June 26) then Malachy Bowes Daly (from July 11)
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Alexander Campbell
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Jedediah Slason Carvell
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia – John Robson
- Premier of Manitoba – Thomas Greenway
- Premier of New Brunswick – Andrew George Blair
- Premier of Nova Scotia – William Stevens Fielding
- Premier of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – Neil McLeod
- Premier of Quebec – Honoré Mercier
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – John Christian Schultz
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Joseph Royal
Premiers
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
- 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
- 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)
