Events from the year 1896 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Events
Full date unknown
Sport
Births
January to June
- March 8 â Charlotte Whitton, feminist, politician and mayor of Ottawa (d.1975)
- March 16 â Harry Banks, soldier
- March 21 â Errick Willis, politician (d.1967)
- April 11 â Léo-Paul Desrosiers, journalist, writer (d.1967)
- April 20 â Wilfrid R. "Wop" May, World War I flying ace and pioneering bush pilot (d.1952)
- May 2 â Elmore Philpott, journalist and politician (d.1964)
- May 18 â Brock Chisholm, doctor and first Director-General of the World Health Organization (d.1971)
- June 22 â Leonard W. Murray, naval officer (d.1971)
July to December
- July 2 â Prudence Heward, painter (d.1947)
- July 4 â Frederick Cronyn Betts, politician (d.1938)
- July 10 â Thérèse Casgrain, feminist, reformer, politician and Senator (d.1981)
- July 13 â John Henry Cates, businessman and political figure (d.1986)
- July 27 â Anne Savage, painter and art teacher (d.1971)
- August 12 â Mitchell Hepburn, politician and 11th Premier of Ontario (d.1953)
- August 18 â Jack Pickford, actor (d.1933)
- August 30 â Raymond Massey, actor (d.1983)
- August 31 â Alice Strike, Canada's last surviving female World War I veteran (d.2004)
- November 3 â Madeleine Fritz, paleontologist (d.1990)
- November 7 â Henry Botterell, World War I fighter pilot (d.2003)
Full date unknown
Deaths
- January 14 â Christopher William Bunting, politician, merchant, newspaper owner and newspaper publisher (b.1837)
- February 20 â Hart Massey, businessman and philanthropist (b.1823)
- April 13 â John Christian Schultz, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (b.1840)
- May 4 â Timothy Anglin, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (b.1822)
- June 7 â Wyatt Eaton, painter (b.1849)
- June 10 â Donald Alexander Macdonald, politician (b.1817)
- June 19 â John Beverley Robinson, politician (b.1821)
- June 25 â Samuel Leonard Tilley, Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1818)
- November 24 â John James Fraser, lawyer, judge, politician and 4th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1829)
- Anne Hill, dancer and actor (b. 1804)
Historical documents
- sails Cape Horn solo on his globe-circling voyage
References