1889 in Canada

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Events from the year 1889 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

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
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Alexander Campbell
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – A.A. Macdonald (until September 2) then Jedediah Slason Carvell
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers

Premiers

• Premier of British Columbia – Alexander Edmund Batson Davie (until August 1) then John Robson (from August 2)
• 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 – William Wilfred Sullivan (until November 1) then 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

• Chairman of the Lieutenant-Governor's Advisory Council of the North-West Territories – Robert Brett

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

Full date unknown

• 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.

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)

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)

Full date unknown

• Edwin Randolph Oakes, politician (b.1818)

References

"A Historical Perspective on the North". Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry. Retrieved 2011-08-15.