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| Years in Canada: | 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 |
| Centuries: | 18th century · 19th century · 20th century |
| Decades: | 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s |
| Years: | 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 |
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Events from the year 1893 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
- Head of state (monarch) – Queen Victoria (consort – Vacant)
Federal government
- Governor general – Frederick Stanley (until September 18) then John Hamilton-Gordon (viceregal consort – Lady Constance Villiers then Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair)
- Prime minister – John Thompson
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Edgar Dewdney
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley (until September 21) then John Boyd (September 21 to December 4) then John James Fraser (from December 20)
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – George Airey Kirkpatrick
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Jedediah Slason Carvell
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia – Theodore Davie
- 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 – Louis-Olivier Taillon
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – John Christian Schultz
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Joseph Royal (until October 31) then Charles Herbert Mackintosh
Premiers
Events
- May 27 - Algonquin Provincial Park is established as a wildlife sanctuary in Ontario
- September 16 - Calgary incorporated as a city
- October 27 - The National Council of Women meets for the first time
- December 18 - Robert Machray is elected first Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada
Full date unknown
- The Redpath Library is bestowed upon McGill University
- Canada Evidence Act created
- Jacques Cartier Monument (Montreal) unveiled
Births
January to June
- January 8 - Jean Désy, diplomat (d.1960)
- February 7 - Joseph Algernon Pearce, astrophycisist (d.1988)
- May 5 - J. Dewey Soper, Arctic explorer, zoologist, ornithologist and author (d.1982)
- May 7 - Frank J. Selke, ice hockey manager (d.1985)
- May 28 - Donald MacLaren, World War I flying ace, businessman (d.1988)
- June 5 - George Croil, first Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Canadian Air Force (d.1959)
- June 16 - Ernest Lloyd Janney, Provisional Commander of the Canadian Aviation Corps (d.1941)
- June 20 - Austin Claude Taylor, politician (d.1965)
- June 23 - Merrill Denison, playwright (d.1975)
July to December
- July 7 - James White, World War I flying ace (d.1972)
- August 18 - Ernest MacMillan, conductor and composer (d.1973)
- August 21 - Wilfred Curtis, Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Canadian Air Force (d.1977)
- October 12 - George Hodgson, swimmer and double Olympic gold medalist (d.1983)
- November 12 - Roy Kellock, jurist and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (d.1975)
- November 22 - Raymond Collishaw, World War I flying ace (d.1976)
- December 8 - J. Arthur Ross, politician (d.1958)
- December 23 - John Patrick Barry, politician and lawyer (d.1946)
- December 23 - Roy Brown, World War I flying ace (d.1944)
Full date unknown
Deaths
January to June
- January 26 - James Armstrong, politician (b.1830)
- February 18 - George-Édouard Desbarats, printer and inventor (b.1838)
- March 18 - David H. Armstrong, United States Senator from Missouri from 1877 till 1879. (b.1812)
- March 30 - Jane Mackenzie, second wife of Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b.1825)
- April 2 - Eden Colvile, Governor of Rupert's Land (b.1819)
July to December
- July 22 - John Rae, doctor and explorer (b.1813)
- September 19 - Alexander Tilloch Galt, politician and a Father of Confederation (b.1817)
- October 30 - John Abbott, politician and 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (b.1821)
- November 9 - Henri Bernier, politician, businessman and manufacturer (b.1821)
- December 9 - Charles Sangster, poet (b.1822)
