1889 in Canada

Events from the year 1889 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Victoria

Federal government

• Governor General – 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 – John Christian Schultz
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Archibald McLelan
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Alexander Campbell
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – A.A. Macdonald (until September 2) then Jedediah Slason Carvell
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers

Premiers

• Premier of British Columbia – Alexander Edmund Batson Davie (until August 1) then John Robson (from August 2)
• 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 – William Wilfred Sullivan (until November 1) then Neil McLeod
• Premier of Quebec – Honoré Mercier

Territorial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – John Christian Schultz
• Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Joseph Royal

Premiers

• Chairman of the Lieutenant-Governor's Advisory Council of the North-West Territories – Robert Brett

Events

• August 1 – Alexander Davie, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office.
• August 2 – John Robson becomes premier of British Columbia.
• August 12 – The Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act, 1889 of the British Parliament expands Ontario's boundaries west to the Lake of the Woods and north to the Albany River.
• September 19 – A rockslide in Quebec City kills 45
• November – Neil McLeod becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Sir William Wilfred Sullivan.
• November 6 – Newfoundland election: William Whiteway's Liberals win a majority, defeating Robert Thorburn's Reforms

Full date unknown

• The Dominion Women Enfranchisement Association is created to campaign for women's right to vote

Births

• February 27 – Samuel Bronfman, businessman (d.1971)
• May 16 – Morris Gray, politician (d.1966)
• August 13 – Camillien Houde, politician and four-time mayor of Montreal (d.1958)
• October 13 – Douglass Dumbrille, actor (d.1974)
• November 20 – John B. McNair, lawyer, politician, judge and 22nd Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (d.1968)
• December 4 – Leslie Gordon Bell, politician and lawyer (d.1963)

Deaths

• April 9 – Andrew Charles Elliott, jurist, politician and 4th Premier of British Columbia (b. c1828)
• May 4 – A. B. Rogers, surveyor (b.1829)
• June 5 – John Hamilton Gray, Premier of New Brunswick (b.1814)
• July 5 – John Norquay, politician and 5th Premier of Manitoba (b.1841)
• August 1 – Alexander Edmund Batson Davie, politician and 7th Premier of British Columbia (b.1847)
• September 5 – Louis-Victor Sicotte, lawyer, judge and politician (b.1812)
• September 13 – Henry Joseph Clarke, lawyer, politician and 3rd Premier of Manitoba (b.1833)
• October 28 – Alexander Morris, politician, Minister and 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (b.1826)

Full date unknown

• Edwin Randolph Oakes, politician (b.1818)

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