1894 in Canada

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 of rock and dirt and left a scar that covered .
• 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 the 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

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 – Phillip Garratt, 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 in the United States)
• 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

• 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 4 - Stephen Richards, politician, Ontario MPP, and Provincial Secretary (b. 1820)
• 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

Prime Minister John Thompson's death at Windsor Castle, and Queen Victoria's response

Ethnologist crashes Dogribs' three-week muskox hunt

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

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