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1901
Events from the year 1901 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Monarch – Victoria (until January 22),Queen Victoria The Canadian Encyclopedia https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/victoria www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca 4 December 2022 then Edward VIITidridge Nathan Canada's Constitutional Monarchy 15 November 2011 Dundurn 978-1-55488-980-8 235 https://books.google.com/books?id=KAvtMxqSDncC&pg=PA235 en
Federal government
Governor General – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto
Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario)
Parliament – 9th (from 6 February)
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alfred Gilpin Jones
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Peter Adolphus McIntyre
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté
Premiers
Premier of British Columbia – Edward Gawler Prior
Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie
Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
Premier of Ontario – George William Ross
Premier of Prince Edward Island – Donald Farquharson (until December 29) then Arthur Peters
Premier of Quebec – Simon-Napoléon Parent
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Commissioner of Yukon – William Ogilvie (until March 11) then James Hamilton Ross
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – Daniel Hunter McMillan
Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Amédée E. Forget
Premiers
Premier of North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain
Events
January 22 – Death of Queen Victoria and accession of King Edward VII.
September 16 – The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary) arrive in Quebec City. They visit all provinces (except Prince Edward Island) and the districts of Assiniboia and Alberta in the North-West Territories. They also visit Newfoundland before leaving North America.
December 12 — Guglielmo Marconi receives a transatlantic radio message at St. John's, Newfoundland.
December 18 — The Territorial Grain Growers' Association is founded.
December 29 — Arthur Peters becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Donald Farquharson.
First ascent of Mount Assiniboine by James Outram's party.
The 1901 Canadian census took place, having a large focus on the labour force, income, and wage class.https://web.uvic.ca/hrd/cfp/publications/Eric%20W.%20Sager.pdf THE NATIONAL SAMPLE OF THE 1901 CENSUS OF CANADA: A NEW SOURCE FOR THE STUDY OF THE WORKING CLASS March 1998 Eric W. Sager 8 June 2023
Arts and literature
March 22 — Gabrielle Roy, a prominent French Canadian author, was born. She would go on to become one of Canada's most celebrated writers.
October 24 — Sheila Watson, a Canadian novelist and critic, was born. She is best known for her novel "The Double Hook".Arts The Canadian Encyclopedia https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/timeline/arts-literature 2024-09-06 www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca
Births
January to June
January 12 — Jack Humphrey, painter (d.1967)
January 14 — Dana Porter, politician and jurist (d.1967)
January 29 — E. P. Taylor, business tycoon and race horse breeder (d.1989)
thumb|right|200px|Dr. W.R. Franks
February 6 — Pat Harrington Sr., actor (d. 1965)
March 4 — Wilbur R. Franks, scientist and inventor (d.1986)
March 25 — Wilfrid Eggleston, journalist and chief censor for Canada from 1942 until 1944 (d.1985)
April 15 — Thomas Ricketts, soldier and Victoria Cross recipient in 1918 (d.1967)
May 5 — Donald Buchanan Blue, politician
July to December
July 15 — James Litterick, politician
September 8 — Harold Connolly, journalist, newspaper editor, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1980)
September 12 — Ben Blue, Canadian-born comedian, actor (d. 1975)UPI Ben Blue, Sad-Faced Comedian, A Performer Five Decades, Dies https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/09/archives/ben-blue-sadfaced-comedian-a-performer-five-decades-dies.html The New York Times 9 March 1975
September 14 — George Carlyle Marler, politician, notary and philatelist (d.1981)
September 15 — Gweneth Lloyd, choreographer
September 22 — Charles Brenton Huggins, physician, physiologist, cancer researcher and Nobel prize laureate (d.1997)
October 14 — John Oates Bower, politician, businessman and executive (d.1981)
Full date unknown
Maryon Pearson, wife of Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1989)
Deaths
thumb|100px|George M. Dawson in May 1885.
January 22 — Victoria, Queen of Canada, since 1867 (b.1819)
March 2 — George Mercer Dawson, scientist and surveyor (b.1849)
May 4 — John Jones Ross, politician and Premier of Quebec (b.1831)
May 7 — George Edwin King, jurist, politician and 2nd Premier of New Brunswick (b.1839)
June 13 — Arthur Sturgis Hardy, lawyer, politician and 4th Premier of Ontario (b.1837)
thumb|right|100px|Arthur Sturgis Hardy
July 24 — George William Allan, politician and 11th Mayor of Toronto (b.1822)
October 25 — Colin MacDougall, politician and lawyer (b.1834)
References
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