1898 in Canada
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| Years in Canada: | 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 |
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| Decades: | 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s |
| Years: | 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 |
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Events from the year 1898 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
- Governor general – John Hamilton-Gordon (until November 12) then Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
- Prime minister – Wilfrid Laurier
- Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario)
- Parliament – 8th
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Thomas Robert McInnes
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Colebrooke Patterson
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – George William Howlan
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau (until January 20) then Louis-Amable Jetté
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia – John Herbert Turner (until August 15) then Charles Augustus Semlin
- Premier of Manitoba – Thomas Greenway
- Premier of New Brunswick – Henry Emmerson
- Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
- Premier of Ontario – Arthur Sturgis Hardy
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – Alexander Warburton (until August 1) then Donald Farquharson
- Premier of Quebec – Félix-Gabriel Marchand
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- Commissioner of Yukon – James Morrow Walsh (until July 5) then William Ogilvie
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Colebrooke Patterson
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Charles Herbert Mackintosh (until May 30) then Malcolm Colin Cameron (May 30 to September 26) then Amédée E. Forget (from October 4)
Premiers
- Premier of North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain
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 (Skagway–Whitehorse)
- 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.
- November 4 – The fourth election of the North-West Legislative Assembly
Full date unknown
- 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
Arts and literature
Births
- May 20 – Paul Gouin, politician (d.1976)
- May 27 – William Arthur Irwin, journalist
- July 7 – Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside, diplomat, civil servant and 5th Commissioner of the Northwest Territories (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 House of Commons of Canada 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)
Full date unknown
- Maurice Spector, Chairman of the Communist Party of Canada (d.1968)
Deaths
Theodore Davie
- 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)
Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
- 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)
Historical Documents
Touring U.S. farmers find paradise of meadows, prairies and woodlands in Saskatchewan [1]
Questionable building standards lead to fatal collapse of city hall floor in London, Ontario [2]
Scandinavian newspaper correspondent describes Chilkoot Pass avalanche disaster [3]
See also
:)References
- Department of the Interior, Reports of United States Delegates on Western Canada (1898), pgs. 9-12. Accessed 21 December 2019 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2387/11.html
- "The London Building Disaster," The Canadian Architect and Builder, Vol. XI, Issue 1 (January 1898), pg. 2. Accessed 21 December 2019 http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/cab/Volume%2011/Issue%201/v11n1p2.gif
- C.A. Clausen, "IV. Dreadful Catastrophe in Sheep Camp," Life in the Klondike and Alaska Gold Fields, Norwegian-American Studies and Records 16 (1950). Accessed 21 December 2019 http://nabo.nb.no/trip?_b=EMITEKST&urn=%22URN:NBN:no-nb_emidata_1245%22
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