1895 in Canada
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| Years in Canada: | 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 |
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| Decades: | 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s |
| Years: | 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 |
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Events from the year 1895 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Edgar Dewdney
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz (until September 2) then James Colebrooke Patterson
- 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 – George William Howlan
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia – Theodore Davie (until March 4) then John Herbert Turner
- 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 (until September 2) then James Colebrooke Patterson
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Charles Herbert Mackintosh
Premiers
- Chairman of the Executive Committee of the North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain
Events
- March – Maria Grant is the first woman in Canada to be elected to any office. She served six years on the Victoria School Board and was presented to the future George V as the only woman elected as a school trustee in Canada.
- March 2 – Theodore Davie resigns as premier of British Columbia
- March 4 – John Herbert Turner becomes premier of British Columbia
- April 24 – Jean-Olivier Chénier Monument unveiled
- July 1 – Maisonneuve Monument unveiled
- October 2 – Additional provisional districts of the North-West Territories are established: the districts of Ungava, Mackenzie, Yukon, and Franklin. The districts of Keewatin and Athabaska are enlarged so that all points of Canada are either within a province or a district.
- The Chinese Board of Trade is formed in Vancouver
- First ascent of Mount Hector in Banff National Park.[1]
Sport
- March 9 – The Montreal Hockey Club wins their second Stanley Cup by defeating Queen's University 5 goals to 1 at Montreal's Victoria Rink
Births
January to June
- February 1 – Conn Smythe, ice hockey manager and owner (d.1980)
- February 15 – Earl Thomson, athlete and Olympic gold medallist (d.1971)
- March 23 – John Robert Cartwright, jurist and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (d.1979)
- April 30 – Philippe Panneton, physician, academic, diplomat and writer (d.1960)
- May 12 – William Giauque, chemist and Nobel laureate (d.1982)
- May 27 – Douglas Lloyd Campbell, politician and 13th Premier of Manitoba (d.1995)
July to December
Leslie Frost
- July 7 – Thane Campbell, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1978)
- July 29 – Albert A. Brown, politician and lawyer (d.1971)
- September 7 – Pete Parker, radio announcer (d.1991)
- September 18 – John Diefenbaker, politician and 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1979)
- September 20 – Leslie Frost, politician and 16th Premier of Ontario (d.1973)
- November 5 – Howard Charles Green, politician and Minister (d.1989)
- December 1 – Edwin Hansford, politician (d.1959)
Deaths
- January 17 – Joseph Tassé, politician (b.1848)
- January 28 – Camille Lefebvre (b.1831)
- April 4 – Malcolm Alexander MacLean, 1st Mayor of Vancouver (b.1842)
- August 4 – Louis-Antoine Dessaulles, seigneur, journalist and politician (b.1818)
- September 4 – Antoine Plamondon, artist (b.1804)
- September 11 – Thomas Heath Haviland, politician (b.1822)
- September 15 – Hector Berthelot, lawyer, journalist and publisher (b.1842)
Historical Documents
Liberal Party of Canada pamphlet comments on economic conditions [2]
Maria Grant, elected to Victoria, B.C. school board, hopes next election will return two more women [3]
Medical education of women, and how to answer objections to it [4]
Report on domestication of Barren Grounds caribou [5]
Toronto Trades and Labor Council supports continued restriction of Chinese immigration [6]
References
- "Mount Hector". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
- Liberal Party, "Facts for the People" (June 11, 1895). Accessed 20 December 2019 http://www.archive.org/details/cihm_01474
- "Trustee Mrs. Grant," The Daily Colonist (March 12, 1895), pg. 6. Accessed 26 December 2019 http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist18950312uvic/18950312#page/n5
- Mrs. Ashley Carus-Wilson (Mary L.G. Petrie), "The Medical Education of Women; A Lecture" (1895). Accessed 20 December 2019 http://archive.org/stream/cihm_10284#page/n5/mode/2up
- Department of the Interior, Lt. Gov. Schultz's Report on the Domestication of the Caribou of Northern Keewatin (1895). Accessed 20 December 2019 http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayEcopies&rec_nbr=2058359
- Memorial from the Legislation Committee of the Trade and Labour Council[....] Accessed 20 December 2019 http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayEcopies&rec_nbr=1600857
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