1898 in Canada
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Events from the year 1898 in Canada.
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[edit] Events
- March 1 - 1898 Ontario election: A. S. Hardy's Liberals win a majority
- June 13 - Yukon becomes a distinct territory from the North-West Territories
- July 29 - White Pass and Yukon Route opens
- August - Donald Farquharson becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing A. B. Warburton
- August 8 - John Herbert Turner is dismissed as premier of British Columbia
- August 15 - Charles Semlin becomes premier of British Columbia
- September 11 - New Westminster, British Columbia destroyed by fire.
- September 29 - The Canadian referendum on the prohibition of alcohol.[1]
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- The Parliament of Canada passes the Quebec Boundary Extension Act, expanding the provincial boundaries northward to include the lands of the aboriginal Cree.
- Kit Coleman covers the Spanish-American War as Canada's first female war correspondent
[edit] Arts and literature
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[edit] Births
- May 20 - Paul Gouin, politician (d.1976)
- May 27 - William Arthur Irwin, journalist
- July 7 - Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside, diplomat and civil servant (d.1992)
- July 17 - Osmond Borradaile, cameraman, cinematographer and veteran of First and Second World War (d.1999)
- August 23 - Brooke Claxton, politician and Minister (d.1960)
- August 27 - Gaspard Fauteux, politician, Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons and Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (d.1963)
- August 30 - Gleason Belzile, politician (d.1950)
- November 8 - Marie Prevost, actress (d.1937)
- November 9 - Emmett Matthew Hall, jurist, civil libertarian and Supreme Court justice (d.1995)
- December 1 - Stuart Garson, politician, Minister and 12th Premier of Manitoba (d.1977)
- December 15 - George Lawrence Price, last Commonwealth casualty of World War I (d.1918)
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- Maurice Spector, Chairman of the Communist Party of Canada (d.1968)
[edit] Deaths
- January 1 - John Arthur Fraser, artist (b.1838)
- February 15 - Wilfrid Prévost, lawyer and politician (b.1832)
- March 7 - Theodore Davie, lawyer, politician and 9th Premier of British Columbia (b.1852)
- May 1 - Nazaire-Nicolas Olivier, lawyer and politician (b. c1860)
- May 13 - François Bourassa, farmer and politician (b.1813)
- April 12 - Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Archbishop of Quebec (b.1820)
- June 13 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, lawyer, politician and 5th Premier of Quebec (b.1840)
- July 14 - Louis-François Richer Laflèche, diocese of Trois-Rivières (b.1818)
- August 24 - Casimir Gzowski, engineer (b.1813)
