1894 in Canada

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Years:	1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897

Events from the year 1894 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

Crown[]

Monarch – Victoria

Federal government[]

Governor General – The Earl of Aberdeen
Prime Minister – John Thompson (until December 12) then Mackenzie Bowell (from December 21)
Parliament – 7th
Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario)

Provincial governments[]

Lieutenant governors[]

Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Edgar Dewdney
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz
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 – Jedediah Slason Carvell (until February 14) then George William Howlan (from February 21)
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 – Charles Herbert Mackintosh

Premiers[]

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

Events[]

January 1 – the town of Calgary is incorporated as a city
February 20 – Manitoba Schools Question: The Supreme Court refuses to hear the appeal of Manitoba francophones.
April 27 – Canada's largest known landslide occurs in Saint-Alban, Quebec. It displaced 185 million cubic metres (6.5×10^⁹ cu ft) of rock and dirt and left a 40 metres (130 ft) scar that covered 4.6 million square metres (50×10^⁶ sq ft).^[1]^[2]
May 17 – Pioneers' Obelisk (Montreal) unveiled
June 14 – Massey Hall opens in Toronto.
June 26 – 1894 Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a seventh majority.
June 28 – July 9 – Colonial Conference of 1894 held in Ottawa.
September 3 – Labour Day celebrated for the first time in Canada.
October 31 – The third election of North-West Legislative Assembly.
December 12 – Prime Minister Sir John Thompson, dies of a heart attack at Windsor Castle, just hours after Queen Victoria inducted him to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
December 21 – Mackenzie Bowell becomes prime minister.

Full date unknown[]

Rondeau Provincial Park is established in southwestern Ontario.
St. Albert cheese factory is founded.

Arts and literature[]

Toronto Mendelssohn Choir is founded.

Sport[]

March 22 – Montreal Hockey Club defeats Ottawa to win the first Stanley Cup challenge.

Births[]

George Alexander Drew in 1947

January to June[]

January 3 – James Lorimer Ilsley, politician, Minister and jurist (d.1967)
January 5 – Norman MacKenzie, author, lawyer, professor and Senator (d.1986)
February 8 – Billy Bishop, First World War flying ace (d.1956)
May 7 – George A. Drew, politician and 14th Premier of Ontario (d.1973)
May 13 – William Earl Rowe, politician and 20th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1984)
May 29 – Beatrice Lillie, comic actress (d.1989)
June 4 – La Bolduc, singer and musician (d.1941)
June 5 – Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, newspaper proprietor and media entrepreneur (d.1976)

July to December[]

July 17 – , aviator
July 24 – Theobald Butler Barrett, politician
July 25 – Norman McLeod Rogers, lawyer, politician and Cabinet minister (d.1940)
August – Gladys Porter, politician and first female member of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia (d.1967)
September 9 – Humphrey Mitchell, politician and trade unionist (d.1950)
September 10 – H. H. Wrong, diplomat (d.1954)
October 7 – Del Lord, film director and actor (d.1970)
November 5 – Harold Innis, professor of political economy and author (d.1952)
November 13 – James Allan, politician (d.1992)
November 26 – James Charles McGuigan, Cardinal (d.1974)
December 13 – Chester Ronning, diplomat and politician (d.1984)

Deaths[]

John Sparrow David Thompson

March 19 – John Langton, businessman, political figure and civil servant (b.1808)
April 16 – Joseph-Charles Taché, a Canadian noted for his contributions to many aspects of the fabric of Canada (b.1820)
May 27 – Francis Godschall Johnson, politician (b.1817)
June 22 – Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Roman Catholic priest, missionary, author and Archbishop (b.1823)
September 5 – James Macleod, militia officer, lawyer, police officer, magistrate, judge and politician (b.1836)
September 14 – Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau, lawyer, businessman and politician (b.1808)
September 15 – Philip Carteret Hill, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (b.1821)
October 30 – Honoré Mercier, lawyer, journalist, politician and Premier of Quebec (b.1840)
November 28 – Patrick Leonard MacDougall, General and author (b.1819)
November 29 – Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck, Governor General (b.1819)
December 12 – John Sparrow David Thompson, lawyer, judge, politician, university professor and 4th Prime Minister of Canada (b.1845)

Historical documents[]

Prime Minister John Thompson's invitation to his Imperial Privy Council swearing-in at Windsor Castle ^[3]

Prime Minister John Thompson's death at Windsor Castle, and Queen Victoria's response ^[4]

Joseph Tyrrell's second expedition to the North-West Territories' Barren Grounds described ^[5]

Ethnologist crashes Dogribs' three-week muskox hunt ^[6]

Chignecto Ship Railway would shorten voyages of eastern New Brunswick, P.E.I. and other shipping to U.S.A. ^[7]

References[]

^ "Landslides". Get Prepared. Public Safety Canada. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
^ "History of Saint-Alban". Saint Alban (in French). City of Saint Alban. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
^ Clerk of the Council, Whitehall, December 8, 1894. Accessed 23 December 2019 http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/006003-119.01-e.php?q2=11&q3=814&sqn=740&tt=744
^ J. Castell Hopkins, Life and Work of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Thompson[....] (1895), pgs. 440-1. Accessed 25 December 2019 https://archive.org/details/lifeworkofrthons00hopk/page/440
^ "By Canoe and Snowshoe through the North-West," The (Toronto) Evening Telegram (January 19, 1895). Accessed 20 December 2019 https://barrenlands.library.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/barrenlands%3AC10135
^ Frank Russell, "Chapter VII; The Musk-Ox Hunt," Explorations in the Far North: Being the Report of an Expedition[....] (1898), pgs. 108-19. Accessed 19 December 2019 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2167/131.html
^ "The Ship Railway; Its Commercial Importance Set Forth," Daily Telegraph reprint (September 12, 1894). Accessed 19 December 2019 https://media.lib.unb.ca/archives/finding/ketchum/documents/S2F46.jpg http://www.lib.unb.ca/archives/finding/ketchum/series25a.html

[1894landslide-1] "Landslides". Get Prepared. Public Safety Canada. Retrieved 4 March 2016.

[landslide27april-2] "History of Saint-Alban". Saint Alban (in French). City of Saint Alban. Retrieved 4 March 2016.

[3] Clerk of the Council, Whitehall, December 8, 1894. Accessed 23 December 2019 http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/006003-119.01-e.php?q2=11&q3=814&sqn=740&tt=744

[4] J. Castell Hopkins, Life and Work of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Thompson[....] (1895), pgs. 440-1. Accessed 25 December 2019 https://archive.org/details/lifeworkofrthons00hopk/page/440

[5] "By Canoe and Snowshoe through the North-West," The (Toronto) Evening Telegram (January 19, 1895). Accessed 20 December 2019 https://barrenlands.library.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/barrenlands%3AC10135

[6] Frank Russell, "Chapter VII; The Musk-Ox Hunt," Explorations in the Far North: Being the Report of an Expedition[....] (1898), pgs. 108-19. Accessed 19 December 2019 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2167/131.html

[7] "The Ship Railway; Its Commercial Importance Set Forth," Daily Telegraph reprint (September 12, 1894). Accessed 19 December 2019 https://media.lib.unb.ca/archives/finding/ketchum/documents/S2F46.jpg http://www.lib.unb.ca/archives/finding/ketchum/series25a.html

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