1890 in Canada
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Events from the year 1890 in Canada.
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Incumbents [edit]
- Monarch — Victoria of Canada
- Governor General — Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby
- Prime Minister — John A. Macdonald
- Lieutenant Governor — Sir Alexander Campbell
- Premier — Sir Oliver Mowat
- Lieutenant Governor — Auguste-Real Angers
- Premier — Honore Mercier
- Lieutenant Governor — Sir Malachy Bowes Daly
- Premier — William S. Fielding
- Lieutenant Governor — Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley
- Premier — Andrew G. Blair
- Lieutenant Governor — Jedediah Slason Carvell
- Premier — Neil McLeod
- Lieutenant Governor — John Christian Schultz
- Premier — Thomas Greenway
- Lieutenant Governor — Hugh Nelson
- Premier — John Robson
Events [edit]
- March 31 — Manitoba Liberals under Thomas Greenway halt public funding of Catholic schools; causes uproar in Quebec.
- June 5 — Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a sixth consecutive majority.
- July 20 — British Columbia election
- August 10 — Prince Edward Island election
Births [edit]
January to June [edit]
- April 20 — Maurice Duplessis, politician and 16th Premier of Quebec (d.1959)
- March 3 — Norman Bethune, physician and medical innovator (d.1939)
- March 21 — Norman Hipel, politician and Minister (d.1953)
- March 24 — Agnes Macphail, politician, first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons (d.1954)
- March 27 — John Horne Blackmore, politician (d.1971)
- May 4 — Franklin Carmichael, painter and Group of Seven member (d.1945)
- May 17 — Lionel FitzGerald, artist
- May 30 — John Stuart Foster, physicist (d.1944)
July to December [edit]
- July 27 — Ian Alistair Mackenzie, politician and Minister (d.1949)
- August 10 — Angus Lewis Macdonald, lawyer, law professor, politician and 19th Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1954)
- September 20 — Kathleen Parlow, violinist (d.1963)
- October 9 — Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist (d.1944)
- October 28 — Louis Orville Breithaupt, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1960)
- December 10 — Byron Ingemar Johnson, politician and 24th Premier of British Columbia (d.1964)
Deaths [edit]
- January 1 — Joseph Godéric Blanchet, politician (b.1829)
- January 17 — François-Xavier-Anselme Trudel, politician (b.1838)
- January 25, 1890 - William Kennedy an explorer involved in the search for Sir John Franklin
- April 4 — Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Premier of Quebec (b.1820)
- April 25 — Crowfoot, a chief of the Siksika First Nation (b. c1830)
- September 26 — Henri Faraud, bishop of the Roman Catholic Church (b.1823)
- December — Silas Tertius Rand Bill, politician, merchant and shipowner (b.1842)
