1901 in Canada

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Events from the year 1901 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

Crown[]

  • Monarch – Victoria (until January 22) then Edward VII

Federal government[]

  • Governor General – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto
  • Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
  • Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario)
  • Parliament – 9th (from 6 February)

Provincial governments[]

Lieutenant governors[]

Premiers[]

Territorial governments[]

Commissioners[]

Lieutenant governors[]

  • Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – Daniel Hunter McMillan
  • Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Amédée E. Forget

Premiers[]

  • Premier of North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain

Events[]

Arts and literature[]

Births[]

January to June[]

  • January 12 — Jack Humphrey, painter (d.)
  • January 14 — Dana Porter, politician and jurist (d.1967)
  • January 29 — E. P. Taylor, business tycoon and race horse breeder (d.1989)
Dr. W.R. Franks
  • March 4 — Wilbur R. Franks, scientist and inventor (d.1986)
  • March 25 — Wilfrid Eggleston, journalist and chief censor for Canada from 1942 until 1944 (d.1985)
  • April 15 — Thomas Ricketts, soldier and Victoria Cross recipient in 1918 (d.1967)
  • May 5 — Donald Buchanan Blue, politician

July to December[]

  • July 15 — James Litterick, politician
  • September 8 — Harold Connolly, journalist, newspaper editor, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1980)
  • September 14 — George Carlyle Marler, politician, notary and philatelist (d.1981)
  • September 15 — Gweneth Lloyd, choreographer
  • September 22 — Charles Brenton Huggins, physician, physiologist, cancer researcher and Nobel prize laureate (d.1997)
  • October 14 — John Oates Bower, politician, businessman and executive (d.1981)

Full date unknown[]

  • Maryon Pearson, wife of Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1989)

Deaths[]

George M. Dawson in May 1885.
  • January 22 — Queen Victoria, Queen of Canada (b.1819)
  • March 2 — George Mercer Dawson, scientist and surveyor (b.1849)
  • May 4 — John Jones Ross, politician and Premier of Quebec (b.1831)
  • May 7 — George Edwin King, jurist, politician and 2nd Premier of New Brunswick (b.1839)
  • June 13 — Arthur Sturgis Hardy, lawyer, politician and 4th Premier of Ontario (b.1837)
Arthur Sturgis Hardy
  • July 24 — George William Allan, politician and 11th Mayor of Toronto (b.1822)
  • October 25 — Colin MacDougall, politician and lawyer (b.1834)

Historical Documents[]

N.W.T. premier says territories are ready for and financially need provincial powers[1]

Influential Liberal MP Frank Oliver objects to immigration of Slavs[2]

Matron and helper at Indian residential school so overworked that spiritual training and teaching children "how to work" is ignored[3]

Manufacturing process described in huge chair factory in Owen Sound, Ontario[4]

Mining and miners in Nanaimo, BC's booming coal industry[5]

Trail, B.C. and its gold, silver and copper smelting operations described[6]

Architect gives examples of good design to counter people's ill-informed criticism[7]

Visitor laments various classes of loafer in British Columbia (Note: racial stereotypes)[8]

Humorous character study of people in dining and smoking cars on train crossing Prairies[9]

Chicken Okra à la Portugaise and other items on Chateau Frontenac menu[10]

References[]

  1. ^ "Haultain Roblin All Night Debate At Indian Head On Annexation To Manitoba" Regina Leader (December 26, 1901), pg. 4. Accessed 22 January 2020
  2. ^ House of Commons debate, 9th Parliament, 1st Session (April 12, 1901). Accessed 22 January 2020
  3. ^ Letter of Josephine Petch (December 18, 1901), United Church of Canada Central Archives, in Denise Hildebrand, Staff Perspectives of the Aboriginal Residential School Experience: A Study of Four Presbyterian Schools, 1888-1923 pg. 165. Accessed 9 June 2021
  4. ^ Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902) pgs. 11-13. Accessed 22 January 2020
  5. ^ Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 214-21. Accessed 22 January 2020
  6. ^ Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 251-6. Accessed 22 January 2020
  7. ^ C.H.C. Wright, "Design in Modern Architecture," The Canadian Architect and Builder, Vol. XIV, No. 158 (February 1901), pgs. 40-1. Accessed 22 January 2020 http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/cab/search/imgdisplay.php?imgfile=../Volume%2014/Issue%202/v14n2p40.gif http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/cab/search/imgdisplay.php?imgfile=../Volume%2014/Issue%202/v14n2p41.gif
  8. ^ Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 155-8. Accessed 22 January 2020
  9. ^ Bernard McEvoy, From the Great Lakes to the Wide West: Impressions of a Tour between Toronto and the Pacific (1902), pgs. 89-96. Accessed 22 January 2020
  10. ^ "Chateau Frontenac; Quebec; Luncheon" (July 22, 1901). Accessed 22 January 2020
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