1893 in Canada explained

Events from the year 1893 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Victoria^[1]

Federal government

• • Governor General – Frederick Stanley (until September 18) then John Hamilton-Gordon Prime Minister – John Thompson
• Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario)
• Parliament – 7th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• • • Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Edgar Dewdney Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley (until September 21) then John Boyd (September 21 to December 4) then John James Fraser (from December 20)
      • Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – George Airey Kirkpatrick Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Jedediah Slason Carvell Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau

Premiers

• Premier of British Columbia – Theodore Davie
  • • • • • 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
• Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Joseph Royal (until October 31) then Charles Herbert Mackintosh

Premiers

• Chairman of the Executive Committee of the North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain

Events

• May 27 – Algonquin Provincial Park is established as a wildlife sanctuary in Ontario
• September 16 – Calgary incorporated as a city
• October 27 – The National Council of Women of Canada meets for the first time
• December 18 – Robert Machray is elected first Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada

Full date unknown

• The Redpath Library is bestowed upon McGill University
• Canada Evidence Act created
• Jacques Cartier Monument (Montreal) unveiled

Sport

• March 22 – The Montreal Hockey Club wins the First Stanley Cup by defeating the Ottawa Hockey Club 3 to 1 at Montreal's Victoria Rink

Births

January to June

• January 8 – Jean Désy, diplomat (d.1960)
• February 7 – Joseph Algernon Pearce, astrophysicist (d.1988)
• April 16 – Germaine Guèvremont, French-Canadian writer (d.1968)
• May 5 – J. Dewey Soper, Arctic explorer, zoologist, ornithologist and author (d.1982)
• May 7 – Frank J. Selke, ice hockey manager (d.1985)
• May 28 – Donald MacLaren, World War I flying ace, businessman (d.1988)
• June 5 – George Croil, first Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Canadian Air Force (d.1959)
• June 16 – Ernest Lloyd Janney, Provisional Commander of the Canadian Aviation Corps (d.1941)
• June 20 – Austin Claude Taylor, politician (d.1965)
• June 23 – Merrill Denison, playwright (d.1975)

July to December

• July 7 – James White, World War I flying ace (d.1972)
• August 18 – Ernest MacMillan, conductor and composer (d.1973)
• August 21 – Wilfred Curtis, Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Canadian Air Force (d.1977)
• October 12 – George Hodgson, swimmer and double Olympic gold medallist (d.1983)
• November 12 – Roy Kellock, jurist and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (d.1975)
• November 22 – Raymond Collishaw, World War I flying ace (d.1976)
• December 8 – J. Arthur Ross, politician (d.1958)
• December 23 – John Patrick Barry, politician and lawyer (d.1946)
• December 23 – Roy Brown, World War I flying ace (d.1944)

Full date unknown

• Parr, artist (d.1969)

Deaths

January to June

• January 26 – James Armstrong, politician (b.1830)
• February 18 – George-Édouard Desbarats, printer and inventor (b.1838)
• March 18 – David H. Armstrong, United States Senator from Missouri from 1877 till 1879. (b.1812)
• March 30 – Jane Mackenzie, second wife of Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b.1825)
• April 2 – Eden Colvile, Governor of Rupert's Land (b.1819)

July to December

• July 22 – John Rae, doctor and explorer (b.1813)
• September 19 – Alexander Tilloch Galt, politician and a Father of Confederation (b.1817)
• October 30 – John Abbott, politician and 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (b.1821)
• November 9 – Henri Bernier, politician, businessman and manufacturer (b.1821)
• December 9 – Charles Sangster, poet (b.1822)

Historical documents

Indian agent reports on Moose Woods Reserve and day school, Assiniboia, N.W.T.^[2]

Ethnologist takes part in Dogrib caribou hunt near Great Slave Lake^[3]

Unmarried women petition Minister of Interior for land grants^[4]

Summer visit to Cap-à-l'Aigle, Murray Bay, Quebec^[5]

Mackenzie King joins in on Halloween mischief at University of Toronto^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Queen Victoria The Canadian Encyclopedia . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . 5 December 2022.
2. Department of Indian Affairs, Reports of Superintendents and Agents, pgs. 215-17. Accessed 19 December 2019
3. Frank Russell, "Chapter VI; Winter Travel; The Caribou Hunt," Explorations in the Far North: Being the Report of an Expedition[....] (1898), pgs. 88-91. Accessed 19 December 2019
4. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/eppp-archive/100/200/301/ic/can_digital_collections/pasttopresent/opportunity/bulletin_spinster_petition.html "Spinsters Want Homesteads"
5. E.C. Paget, "Letters to H.S. Moore, Esq.," A Year under the Shadow of St. Paul's[....] (1908), pgs. 167-70. Accessed 19 December 2019
6. Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King, pg. 21 Accessed 19 December 2019