1887 in Canada

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Events from the year 1887 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 (until February 8) then Hugh Nelson
• 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 (until June 1) then Alexander Campbell
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Andrew Archibald Macdonald
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Rodrigue Masson (until October 4) then Auguste-Réal Angers

Premiers

• Premier of British Columbia – William Smithe (until March 28) then Alexander Edmund Batson Davie (from April 1)
• Premier of Manitoba – John Norquay (until December 26) then David Howard Harrison
• 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 (until January 25) then Louis-Olivier Taillon (January 25 to January 27) then Honoré Mercier

Territorial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Cox Aikins
• Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Edgar Dewdney

Events

• January 25 - Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon becomes premier of Quebec, replacing John Jones Ross.
• January 27 - Honoré Mercier becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon.
• February 22 - Federal election: Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority.
• March 3 - The United States imposes the Fisheries Retaliation Act putting limits on Canadian fishermen and traders
• March 28 - William Smithe, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office.
• April 1 - Alexander Davie becomes premier of British Columbia.
• April 23 - McMaster University founded
• May 3 - 148 coal miners are killed in a mine explosion near Nanaimo, British Columbia
• June 7 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
• December 3 - Saturday Night founded
• December 26 - David H. Harrison becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing John Norquay.
• The first premiers' conference is held at Quebec City, Quebec

Births

January to June

• January 21 - Georges Vézina, ice hockey player (d.1926)
• February 20 - Vincent Massey, lawyer, diplomat and Governor General of Canada (d.1967)
• February 25 - Andrew McNaughton, army officer, politician and diplomat (d.1966)
• April 13 - Gordon S. Fahrni, medical doctor (d.1995)
• May 21 - James Gladstone, first Status Indian to be appointed to the Canadian Senate (d.1971)

July to December

• July 4 - Tom Longboat, long-distance runner (d.1949)
• July 5 - Joseph Charles-Émile Trudeau, entrepreneur and father of Pierre Trudeau, who would later become Prime Minister of Canada (d.1935)
• September 17 - Georges Poulin, hockey player (d. 1971)
• October 8 - Huntley Gordon, actor (d.1956)
• October 14 - Frances Loring, sculptor (d.1968)
• December 20 - Walter Russell Shaw, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1981)

Deaths

• February 25 - Augustin-Magloire Blanchet, missionary (b.1797)
• March 28 - William Smithe, politician and 6th Premier of British Columbia (b.1842)
• May 4 - William Murdoch, poet (b.1823)
• May 8 - Sir William Young, Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1799)
• June 25 - Matthew Crooks Cameron, lawyer, judge and politician (b.1822)
• August 18 - John Palliser, explorer and geographer (b.1817)
• October 11 - Louis-Adélard Senécal, businessman and politician (b.1829)
• October 12 - William Annand, 2nd Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1808)