1895 in Canada

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Events from the year 1895 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Head of state (monarch) – Queen Victoria (consort – Vacant)

Federal government

• Governor general – John Hamilton-Gordon (viceregal consort – Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair)
• Prime minister – Mackenzie Bowell

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Edgar Dewdney
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz (until September 2) then James Colebrooke Patterson
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – John James Fraser
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – George Airey Kirkpatrick
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – George William Howlan
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau

Premiers

• Premier of British Columbia – Theodore Davie (until March 4) then John Herbert Turner
• 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 (until September 2) then James Colebrooke Patterson
• Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Charles Herbert Mackintosh

Premiers

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

Events

• March - Maria Grant is the first woman in Canada to be elected to any office. She served six years on the Victoria School Board and was presented to the future George V as the only woman elected as a school trustee in Canada.
• March 2 - Theodore Davie resigns as premier of British Columbia
• March 4 - John Herbert Turner becomes premier of British Columbia
• April 24 - Jean-Olivier Chénier Monument unveiled
• July 1 - Maisonneuve Monument unveiled
• October 2 - Additional provisional districts of the North-West Territories are established: the districts of Ungava, Mackenzie, Yukon, and Franklin. The districts of Keewatin and Athabaska are enlarged so that all points of Canada are either within a province or a district.
• The Chinese Board of Trade is formed in Vancouver

Births

January to June

• February 1 - Conn Smythe, ice hockey manager and owner (d.1980)
• February 15 - Earl Thomson, athlete and Olympic gold medalist (d.1971)
• March 23 - John Robert Cartwright, jurist and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (d.1979)
• April 30 - Philippe Panneton, physician, academic, diplomat and writer (d.1960)
• May 12 - William Giauque, chemist and Nobel laureate (d.1982)
• May 27 - Douglas Lloyd Campbell, politician and 13th Premier of Manitoba (d.1995)

July to December

Leslie Frost

• July 7 - Thane Campbell, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1978)
• July 29 - Albert A. Brown, politician and lawyer (d.1971)
• September 7 - Pete Parker, radio announcer (d.1991)
• September 18 - John Diefenbaker, politician and 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1979)
• September 20 - Leslie Frost, politician and 16th Premier of Ontario (d.1973)
• November 5 - Howard Charles Green, politician and Minister (d.1989)
• December 1 - Edwin Hansford, politician (d.1959)

Deaths

• January 17 - Joseph Tassé, politician (b.1848)
• January 28 - Camille Lefebvre (b.1831)
• April 4 - Malcolm Alexander MacLean, 1st Mayor of Vancouver (b.1842)
• August 4 - Louis-Antoine Dessaulles, seigneur, journalist and politician (b.1818)
• September 4 - Antoine Plamondon, artist (b.1804)
• September 11 - Thomas Heath Haviland, politician (b.1822)
• September 15 - Hector Berthelot, lawyer, journalist and publisher (b.1842)