my-server
Home
Login
← Wiki
1887 in Canada
Events from the year
1887 in Canada
.
Incumbents
Crown
Monarch
âÂÂ
Victoria
Federal government
Governor General
âÂÂ
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice
Prime Minister
âÂÂ
John A. Macdonald
Chief Justice
âÂÂ
William Johnstone Ritchie
(
New Brunswick
)
Parliament
âÂÂ
5th
(until 15 January) then
6th
(from 13 April)
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
âÂÂ
Clement Francis Cornwall
(until February 8) then
Hugh Nelson
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba
âÂÂ
James Cox Aikins
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
âÂÂ
Samuel Leonard Tilley
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
âÂÂ
Matthew Henry Richey
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
âÂÂ
John Beverley Robinson
(until June 1) then
Alexander Campbell
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island
âÂÂ
Andrew Archibald Macdonald
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
âÂÂ
Louis-Rodrigue Masson
(until October 4) then
Auguste-Réal Angers
Premiers
Premier of British Columbia
âÂÂ
William Smithe
(until March 28) then
Alexander Edmund Batson Davie
(from April 1)
Premier of Manitoba
âÂÂ
John Norquay
(until December 26) then
David Howard Harrison
Premier of New Brunswick
âÂÂ
Andrew George Blair
Premier of Nova Scotia
âÂÂ
William Stevens Fielding
Premier of Ontario
âÂÂ
Oliver Mowat
Premier of Prince Edward Island
âÂÂ
William Wilfred Sullivan
Premier of Quebec
âÂÂ
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
âÂÂ
James Cox Aikins
Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories
âÂÂ
Edgar Dewdney
Events
January 25 â Sir
Louis-Olivier Taillon
becomes premier of
Quebec
, replacing
John Jones Ross
.
January 27 âÂÂ
Honoré Mercier
becomes premier of
Quebec
, replacing Sir
Louis-Olivier Taillon
.
February 22 âÂÂ
Federal election
: Sir
John A. Macdonald
's Conservatives win a third consecutive majority.
March 3 â The United States imposes the
Fisheries Retaliation Act
putting limits on Canadian fishermen and traders
March 28 âÂÂ
William Smithe
, Premier of
British Columbia
, dies in office.
April 1 âÂÂ
Alexander Davie
becomes premier of
British Columbia
.
April 23 âÂÂ
McMaster University
founded
May 3 â 148
coal
miners are killed in a mine explosion near
Nanaimo, British Columbia
June 7 âÂÂ
Wilfrid Laurier
becomes leader of the
Liberal Party of Canada
June 20 âÂÂ
Golden Jubilee of Victoria's accession as Queen
December 3 âÂÂ
Saturday Night
founded
December 26 âÂÂ
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 âÂÂ
Georges Vézina
, ice hockey player (d.
1926
)
February 20 âÂÂ
Vincent Massey
, lawyer, diplomat and
Governor General of Canada
(d.
1967
)
February 25 âÂÂ
Andrew McNaughton
, army officer, politician and diplomat (d.
1966
)
April 13 âÂÂ
Gordon S. Fahrni
, medical doctor (d.
1995
)
May 21 âÂÂ
James Gladstone
, first
Status Indian
to be appointed to the
Senate of Canada
(d.
1971
)
July to December
July 4 âÂÂ
Tom Longboat
, long-distance runner (d.
1949
)
July 5 âÂÂ
Joseph Charles-ÃÂmile Trudeau
, entrepreneur and father of
Pierre Trudeau
, who would later become
Prime Minister of Canada
(d.
1935
)
September 17 âÂÂ
Georges Poulin
, hockey player (d.
1971
)
October 8 âÂÂ
Huntley Gordon
, actor (d.
1956
)
October 14 âÂÂ
Frances Loring
, sculptor (d.
1968
)
December 20 âÂÂ
Walter Russell Shaw
, politician and Premier of
Prince Edward Island
(d.
1981
)
Deaths
February 25 âÂÂ
Augustin-Magloire Blanchet
, missionary (b.
1797
)
March 28 âÂÂ
William Smithe
, politician and 6th
Premier of British Columbia
(b.
1842
)
May 4 âÂÂ
William Murdoch
, poet (b.
1823
)
May 8 âÂÂ
Sir William Young
,
Premier of Nova Scotia
(b.
1799
)
June 25 âÂÂ
Matthew Crooks Cameron
, lawyer, judge and politician (b.
1822
)
August 18 âÂÂ
John Palliser
, explorer and geographer (b.
1817
)
October 11 âÂÂ
Louis-Adélard Senécal
, businessman and politician (b.
1829
)
October 12 âÂÂ
William Annand
, 2nd
Premier of Nova Scotia
(b.
1808
)
References