1888 in Canada

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Years:	1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891

Events from the year 1888 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

Crown[]

Monarch – Victoria

Federal government[]

Governor General – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice (until June 11) then Frederick Stanley
Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald
Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick)
Parliament – 6th

Provincial governments[]

Lieutenant governors[]

Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Hugh Nelson
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Cox Aikins (until July 1) then John Christian Schultz
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Matthew Henry Richey (until July 8) then Archibald McLelan
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Alexander Campbell
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Andrew Archibald Macdonald
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers

Premiers[]

Premier of British Columbia – Alexander Edmund Batson Davie
Premier of Manitoba – David Howard Harrison (until January 19) then 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 – William Wilfred Sullivan
Premier of Quebec – Honoré Mercier

Territorial governments[]

Lieutenant governors[]

Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Cox Aikins (until July 1) then John Christian Schultz
Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Edgar Dewdney (until July 1) then Joseph Royal

Premiers[]

Chairman of the Lieutenant-Governor's Advisory Council of the North-West Territories – Robert Brett (from June 30)

Events[]

January 19 – Thomas Greenway becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing David H. Harrison.
June 20 – The Northwest Territories holds its first general election; 22 members of the Legislative Assembly are elected. All are independents; there are no party politics in the territories
July 11 – Manitoba election

Full date unknown[]

Boundary survey started by Dr. William H. Dall of the United States and Dr. George M. Dawson of Canada.

Arts and literature[]

New books[]

Among the Millet: Archibald Lampman

Births[]

January to June[]

January 18 – Charles Gavan Power, politician, Minister and Senator (d.1968)
January 20 – Ethel Wilson, novelist and short story writer (d.1980)
February 28 – George Pearkes, politician, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (d.1984)
March 24 – Samuel Rosborough Balcom, politician (d.1981)
April 6 – Leonard Brockington, lawyer, civil servant and first head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) (d.1966)
April 8 – Dora Mavor Moore, actor, teacher and director (d.1979)
April 23
- Joseph Georges Bouchard, politician (d.1956)
- Georges Vanier, soldier, diplomat and Governor General of Canada (d.1967)
April 28 – Harry Crerar, General (d.1965)
May 3 – , photographer

July to December[]

July 11 – John Keiller MacKay, soldier, jurist and 19th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1970)
August 3 – , journalist
September 2 – Dorothy Stevens, artist
September 7 – William Bryce, politician
September 15 – Filip Konowal, soldier, Victoria Cross recipient in 1917 (d.1959)
September 18
- Grey Owl, writer and conservationist (d.1938)
- William Duncan Herridge, politician and diplomat (d.1961)
October 23 – Onésime Gagnon, politician and the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d.1961)
November 3 – Joseph Oscar Lefebre Boulanger, politician and lawyer (d.1958)
November 11 – S. E. Rogers, politician (d.1965)
November 25 – Joseph W. Noseworthy, politician (d.1956)
December 2 – Major James Coldwell, politician (d.1974)

Deaths[]

January 17 – Big Bear, Cree leader (b. c1825)
February 4 – Sévère Rivard, lawyer, politician and 17th Mayor of Montreal (b.1834)
March 2 – William Elliott, farmer, merchant and politician (b.1834)
April 21 – Thomas White, journalist and politician (b.1830)
May 3 – William Alexander Henry, politician (b.1816)
May 12 – Élie Saint-Hilaire, educator, farmer and politician (b.1839)
May 30 – James Ferrier, merchant, politician and 4th Mayor of Montreal (b.1800)
August 4 – Charles-Joseph Coursol, lawyer, politician and 13th Mayor of Montreal (b.1819)
August 24 – John Rose, politician (b.1820)
October 1 – James Gibb Ross, merchant and politician (b.1819)

Historical Documents[]

House of Commons committee hears of cartels conspiring to control products ranging from groceries to coal to stoves and coffins^[1]

Sandford Fleming's ideas on telegraph line to Australia ^[2]

U.S. Supreme Court rules on Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent in light of previous invention claimed by "a poor mechanic"^[3]

Brief visit to Chinatown temple in Victoria, B.C. ^[4]

In report on northern lands, Senate committee points out unwanted wildlife loss from "greater ease in their capture" and use of poison ^[5]

Lecturer describes dogs of Hudson Strait Inuit ^[6]

References[]

^ Report of the Select Committee Appointed[...]to Investigate and Report upon Alleged Combinations in Manufactures, Trade and Insurance in Canada (May 16, 1888). Accessed 9 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_0602_1_1/9?r=0&s=1
^ "Pacific Cable Telegraph between Canada and Australia[...]," Privy Council Minutes, February 18–27, 1888, pgs. 331-5. Accessed 10 October 2019 http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/orders/001022-119.01-e.php?&sisn_id_nbr=41533&page_id_nbr=129551
^ Chief Justice Waite, "Telephone Cases (Part Three Three)" (March 18, 1888). Accessed 10 October 2020 https://www.anylaw.com/case/telephone-cases-part-three-three/supreme-court/03-18-1888/R88DYmYBTlTomsSBp2Rh
^ James Carmichael, A Holiday Trip; Montreal to Victoria and Return via the Canadian Pacific Railway[...] (1888), pgs. 28-9. Accessed 10 October 2019 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1718/34.html
^ Senate Committees, 6th Parliament, 2nd Session: Select Committee on Resources of the Great Mackenzie Basin, Vol. 1, pg. 13. Accessed 1 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_SOC_0602_1_1/19?r=0&s=1
^ Wm. A. Ashe, "The Eskimos of Hudson Straits," Lectures Given at the Quebec Garrison Club, 1888-9 (1889), pgs. 25-6, 43-5. Accessed 10 October 2019 https://archive.org/stream/cihm_09022#page/n31/mode/2up

[1] Report of the Select Committee Appointed[...]to Investigate and Report upon Alleged Combinations in Manufactures, Trade and Insurance in Canada (May 16, 1888). Accessed 9 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_0602_1_1/9?r=0&s=1

[2] "Pacific Cable Telegraph between Canada and Australia[...]," Privy Council Minutes, February 18–27, 1888, pgs. 331-5. Accessed 10 October 2019 http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/orders/001022-119.01-e.php?&sisn_id_nbr=41533&page_id_nbr=129551

[3] Chief Justice Waite, "Telephone Cases (Part Three Three)" (March 18, 1888). Accessed 10 October 2020 https://www.anylaw.com/case/telephone-cases-part-three-three/supreme-court/03-18-1888/R88DYmYBTlTomsSBp2Rh

[4] James Carmichael, A Holiday Trip; Montreal to Victoria and Return via the Canadian Pacific Railway[...] (1888), pgs. 28-9. Accessed 10 October 2019 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1718/34.html

[5] Senate Committees, 6th Parliament, 2nd Session: Select Committee on Resources of the Great Mackenzie Basin, Vol. 1, pg. 13. Accessed 1 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_SOC_0602_1_1/19?r=0&s=1

[6] Wm. A. Ashe, "The Eskimos of Hudson Straits," Lectures Given at the Quebec Garrison Club, 1888-9 (1889), pgs. 25-6, 43-5. Accessed 10 October 2019 https://archive.org/stream/cihm_09022#page/n31/mode/2up

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