1884 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

Federal government

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Territorial governments

Lieutenant governors

Events
  • January 2 – "Humber Railway Disaster" 32 men and boys were killed upon the head-on collision of a Grand Trunk Railway commuter train with an unscheduled freight train #42C near Toronto, Ontario. Most of the dead were workers being transported on the freight train to the Ontario Bolt Works in Swansea.
  • January 10 – David Scott elected as the first mayor of Regina
  • January 17 – The Parliament Building's new electric lights were turned on, for the first time.[1]
  • January 23 – John Jones Ross becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Joseph-Alfred Mousseau.
  • June 22 – The six surviving members of the 25-man Lady Franklin Bay Expedition lead by Adolphus Greely was rescued by Winfield Scott Schley. One more died on the homeward journey.[2]
  • July 28 – William Fielding becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing William Pipes.
  • September 15 – The Nile Voyageurs depart for Africa
  • October 15 – The La Presse newspaper is founded
  • Parliament of Canada passes the Indian Advancement Act, encouraging democratic elections of chiefs. Mohawks at St. Regis, Ontario, resist the provision, preferring their traditional method of choosing leaders.

Births

January to June

July to December

Deaths

Full date unknown

Historical Documents

Opposition Leader Edward Blake touches on several Liberal Party principles and political points [3]

Essay on disadvantages of Confederation for Manitoba [4]

Winnipegger Alexander Begg lectures in London on his years in the Northwest [5]

Report on Indigenous peoples of Northwest (Note: "savage," other stereotypes) [6]

Witnesses describe tense stand-off between Mounties and armed group of Cree [7]

Touring British scientists find Chief Crowfoot selling his personal items at Gleichen, Alberta [8]

Louis Riel is asked to return from exile [9]

Letter of Louis Riel declining invitation to speak in Prince Albert [10]

Anglophone Quebeckers assess agricultural and forestry advantages of Calgary region [11]

Newspaper controversy over encouraging deaf people to settle in Northwest [12]

Nova Scotia woman writes to her mother about losing her newborn child [13]

References
  1. "The House of Commons Heritage Collection". parl.gc.ca. March 2011. Retrieved 2012-07-16.
  2. "Discovery Of Seven Survivors of Lieut. Greeley's Party". The Cornishman (314). 24 July 1884. p. 7.
  3. "Speech of the Hon. Edward Blake before the Young Men's Liberal Club of Toronto[...]," The (Montreal) Times (January 17, 1884). Accessed 14 October 2019 http://www.archive.org/details/cihm_00176
  4. Henry T. Burgess, Manitoba and Confederation (1884). Accessed 7 October 2019 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1303/6.html
  5. Alexander Begg, Seventeen Years in the Canadian North-West (1884). Accessed 7 October 2019 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1199.html
  6. George Bryce, "Our Indians;" Delivered before the Y.M.C.A., Winnipeg[...]. Accessed 14 October 2019 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1207/3.html
  7. Campbell Innes, The Cree Rebellion of 1884, or, Sidelights on Indian Conditions Subsequent to 1876 (1926), pgs. 11, 15-17, 39, 42-3. Accessed 6 October 2019 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1250/31.html
  8. British Association for the Advancement of Science, Report of the Visit of the British Association to the Canadian North-West[...] (1884). Accessed 6 October 2019 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1283/12.html
  9. Canada; Department of the Secretary of State; Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Return (in Part) to an Address of the House of Commons[...]: For Copies of All Papers Found in the Council Room of the Insurgents[...] (1886). Accessed 7 October 2019 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1588/2.html
  10. "To the gentlemen who kindly invite me to hold a public meeting in Prince Albert," Morton Manuscripts Collection, University of Saskatchewan Libraries Special Collections. Accessed 7 October 2019 http://digital.scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/solr?query=ID%3A26199&start=0&rows=10&mode=view&pos=0&page=4
  11. Thomas Shepard Barwis, Calgary, Alberta, and the Canadian North West: Valuable Information for Intending Settlers (1885). Accessed 7 October 2019 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1196/9.html
  12. Jane Elizabeth Groom and "H.H.," A Future for the Deaf and Dumb in the Canadian North-West (1884), pgs. 18-20. Accessed 7 October 2019 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1240/19.html
  13. Dove Crowell to Catherine McQueen, October 21, 1884, Yarmouth, The McQueen Family Papers, Atlantic Canada Virtual Archives. Accessed 7 October 2019 http://atlanticportal.hil.unb.ca/acva/en/mcqueen/letters/search/text.php?pt=1&d=628
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