1886 in Canada
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| Years in Canada: | 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 |
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| Years: | 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 |
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Events from the year 1886 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
- Head of state (monarch) – Queen Victoria (consort – Vacant)
Federal government
- Governor general – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice (viceregal consort – Maud Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne)
- Prime minister – John A. Macdonald
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clement Francis Cornwall
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Cox Aikins
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Matthew Henry Richey
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Beverley Robinson
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Andrew Archibald Macdonald
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Rodrigue Masson
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia – William Smithe
- Premier of Manitoba – John Norquay
- 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
- Premier of Quebec – John Jones Ross
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Cox Aikins
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Edgar Dewdney
Events
- March 25 - Workman's Compensation Act passed in Ontario
- April 6 - Vancouver incorporated as a city
- April 26 - New Brunswick general election, 1886
- June 6 - The Parliament buildings open in Ottawa
- June 7 - Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau becomes the first Canadian cardinal
- June 8 to 15 - Nova Scotia general election, 1886: William Stevens Fielding's Liberals win a third consecutive majority.
- June 13 - Great Vancouver Fire
- June 30 - Prince Edward Island general election, 1886: William Wilfred Sullivan Conservatives win a fifth consecutive majority.
- July 20 - British Columbia general election, 1886
- October 14 - Quebec general election, 1886: Honoré Mercier's Liberals win a majority
- December 9 - Manitoba general election, 1886
- December 14 - Yoho National Park established
- December 28 - Ontario general election, 1886: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a fifth consecutive majority.
Full date unknown
- Mohawk men of the Caughnawaga Reserve in Quebec are trained to help build a bridge across the St. Lawrence River, beginning a tradition of high steel construction work among the Iroquois.
- Construction begins on the Banff Springs Hotel
Births
- January 15 - C. D. Howe, politician and Minister (d.1960)
- January 21 - George Kingston, meteorologist (b.1816)
- May 13 - William John Patterson, politician and 6th Premier of Saskatchewan (d.1976)
- August 4 - Pierre-François Casgrain, politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (d.1950)
- August 30 - Ray Lawson, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1980)
- October 16 - Joseph-Arthur Bradette, politician (d.1961)
Deaths
- March 30 - Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, politician and 6th Premier of Quebec (b.1837)
- March 31 - Amos Wright, farmer and politician (b.1809)
- June 25
- Auguste Achintre, journalist and essayist (b.1834)
- Jean-Louis Beaudry, entrepreneur, politician and 11th Mayor of Montreal (b.1809)
- July 4 - Pitikwahanapiwiyin, Cree chief (b. c1842)
- November 23 - William Jack, astronomer (b.1817)
