1892 in Canada

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Events from the year 1892 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 Abbott (until November 24) then John Thompson (from December 5)

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Hugh Nelson (until November 1) then Edgar Dewdney
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Alexander Campbell (until May 24) then George Airey Kirkpatrick (from May 30)
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Jedediah Slason Carvell
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers (until December 5) then Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau

Premiers

• Premier of British Columbia – John Robson (until June 29) then Theodore Davie (from July 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 – Frederick Peters
• Premier of Quebec – Charles Boucher de Boucherville (until December 16)then Louis-Olivier Taillon

Territorial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – John Christian Schultz
• Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Joseph Royal

Premiers

• Chairman of the Executive Committee of the North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain

Events

• June 29 - John Robson, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office
• July 2 - Theodore Davie becomes Premier of British Columbia
• July 8 - Two-thirds of St. Johns, Newfoundland, destroyed in a fire
• November 24 - Sir John Abbott resigns as Prime Minister
• December 5 - Sir John Sparrow David Thompson becomes PM. One of his first acts is to establish the Criminal Code of Canada.
• December 16 - Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon becomes premier of Quebec for the second time, replacing Sir Charles-Eugène de Boucherville

Full date unknown

• The Toronto Star founded
• Harbord Collegiate Institute was opened
• Humberside Collegiate Institute opened

Sport

• First documented women's ice hockey game takes place in Barrie, Ontario playing on an outdoor ice surface.

Births

January to June

• March 4 – J.-Eugène Bissonnette, politician and physician
• April 8 – Mary Pickford, actress and studio co-founder (d.1979)
• May 3 – Jacob Viner, economist (d.1970)
• May 18 – John Croak, VC
• June 2 – Edward LeRoy Bowerman, politician (d.1977)

July to December

• July 14 - John Sissons, barrister, author, judge and politician (d.1969)
• August 2 - Jack Warner, studio mogul (d.1978)
• August 18 - Hal Foster, cartoonist (d.1982)
• September 21 - Donald Elmer Black, politician
• September 24 - Adélard Godbout, politician and 15th Premier of Quebec (d.1956)
• October 25 - Nell Shipman, actress, screenwriter, producer and animal trainer (d.1970)
• November 20 - Bert Collip, biochemist
• December 20 - Percy Corbett, legal scholar

Deaths

Alexander Mackenzie

• January 1 - John Chipman Wade, politician and lawyer (b.1817)
• January 20 - Samuel Barton Burdett, politician, lawyer and lecturer (b.1843)
• March 7 - Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1820)
• April 6 - John Ostell, architect, surveyor and manufacturer (b.1813)
• April 17 - Alexander Mackenzie, building contractor, newspaper editor, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b.1822)
• May 24 - Alexander Campbell, politician, Senator and 6th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1822)
• June 9 - William Grant Stairs, explorer, soldier and adventurer (b.1863)
• June 29 - John Robson, journalist, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b.1824)
• July 15 - William Donahue, merchant and politician (b.1834)
• August 30 - Frederick Newton Gisborne, Laid first under-sea cable in North America
• September 12 - Marc-Amable Girard, politician, Senator and 2nd Premier of Manitoba (b.1822)
• December 14 - Adams George Archibald, politician (b.1814)