1890 in Canada

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Events from the year 1890 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Victoria

Federal government

• Governor General – Frederick Stanley
• Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald
• Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick)
• Parliament – 6th

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Hugh Nelson
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Archibald McLelan (until June 26) then Malachy Bowes Daly (from July 11)
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Alexander Campbell
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Jedediah Slason Carvell
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers

Premiers

• Premier of British Columbia – John Robson
• 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 – Neil McLeod
• Premier of Quebec – Honoré Mercier

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – John Christian Schultz
• Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Joseph Royal

Premiers

• Chairman of the Lieutenant-Governor's Advisory Council of the North-West Territories – Robert Brett

Events

• March 31 — Manitoba Liberals under Thomas Greenway halt public funding of Catholic schools; causes uproar in Quebec.
• June 5 — Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a sixth consecutive majority.
• July 20 — British Columbia election
• August 10 — Prince Edward Island election

Births

January to June

Maurice Duplessis campaigning in the 1952 election

• April 20 — Maurice Duplessis, politician and 16th Premier of Quebec (d.1959)
• March 3 — Norman Bethune, physician and medical innovator (d.1939)
• March 21 — Norman Hipel, politician and Minister (d.1953)
• March 24 — Agnes Macphail, politician, first woman to be elected to the House of Commons of Canada (d.1954)
• March 27 — John Horne Blackmore, politician (d.1971)
• May 4 — Franklin Carmichael, painter and Group of Seven member (d.1945)
• May 17 — Lionel FitzGerald, artist
• May 30 — John Stuart Foster, physicist (d.1944)

July to December

• July 27 — Ian Alistair Mackenzie, politician and Minister (d.1949)
• August 10 — Angus Lewis Macdonald, lawyer, law professor, politician and 19th Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1954)
• September 20 — Kathleen Parlow, violinist (d.1963)
• October 9 — Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist (d.1944)
• October 28 — Louis Orville Breithaupt, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d.1960)
• December 10 — Byron Ingemar Johnson, politician and 24th Premier of British Columbia (d.1964)

Deaths

Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau in 1863

• January 1 — Joseph Godéric Blanchet, politician (b.1829)
• January 17 — François-Xavier-Anselme Trudel, politician (b.1838)
• January 25 – William Kennedy, explorer involved in the search for Sir John Franklin (b.1814)
• February 13 — Éphrem-A. Brisebois, police officer (b. 1850)
• April 4 — Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Premier of Quebec (b.1820)
• April 25 — Crowfoot, a chief of the Siksika First Nation (b. c1830)
• September 26 — Henri Faraud, bishop of the Roman Catholic Church (b.1823)
• December — Silas Tertius Rand Bill, politician, merchant and shipowner (b.1842)

Historical Documents

Editorial tries to convince eastern Canadians to go west instead of south [1]

British Methodist Episcopal bishop steals hearts of Canadian Methodist conference participants (Note: racial stereotypes) [2]

Australians advised to avoid Canada's example of "disunion" as they consider federation [3]

British socialist newspaper decries "that venerable fraud and child kidnapper, Doctor Barnardo" shipping boys to Canada [4]

Montreal impresaria brings Metropolitan Opera orchestra (featuring Victor Herbert) to play symphonic favourites [5]

Long neglected, foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is coming back into favour in gardens [6]

References

1. Edmonton Bulletin excerpt in The Regina Leader (January 28, 1890), pg. 4. Accessed 2 December 2019 http://library2.usask.ca/sni/stories/con3.html Archived 2011-02-04 at the Wayback Machine
2. S.J. Celestine Edwards, From Slavery to a Bishopric, or, The Life of Bishop Walter Hawkins[....] (1891), pgs. 156-8. Accessed 2 December 2019 http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/edwardsc/edwards.html
3. Debates of the Federation Conference, 1890; Held in the Parliament House, Melbourne (Tuesday, February 11, 1890), pgs. 139-41. Accessed 2 December 2019 http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/pubotbin/toccer-new?id=fed0053.sgml&images=&data=/usr/ot&tag=fed&part=2&division=div
4. "Notes on News," The Commonweal; The Official Journal of the Socialist League, Vol. 6, No. 241 (August 23, 1890), pg. 267. Accessed 17 January 2021 http://morrisedition.lib.uiowa.edu/Commonweal/1890/Commonweal_Aug23.1890_NewsfromNowhere.ChapterXXVI.pdf
5. "Herr Anton Seidl and Orchestra of Metropolitan Opera House, New York[....]" Accessed 28 May 2020 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_KzqIHf8ly5R0swbmV5ZnphOU0/view (scroll down to pg. 181)
6. Wilbur F. Lake, "The Foxglove as a Border Plant," The Canadian Horticulturist, Vol. XXXI, No. 1 (January 1890), pgs. 18-20. Accessed 20 March 2020 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112106847665&view=1up&seq=28