1889 in Canada

none April 2026 December 2009 1889 Events from the year 1889 in Canada. Incumbents Crown Monarch – VictoriaQueen Victoria The Canadian Encyclopedia https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/victoria# www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca 5 December 2022 Federal government Governor General – Frederick Stanley Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick) Parliament – 6th Provincial governments 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 Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Alexander Campbell Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – A.A. Macdonald (until September 2) then Jedediah Slason Carvell Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers Premiers Premier of British Columbia – Alexander Edmund Batson Davie (until August 1) then John Robson (from August 2) 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 – William Wilfred Sullivan (until November 1) then Neil McLeod Premier of Quebec – Honoré Mercier Territorial governments 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 thumb|Rockslide in Quebec City, September 19, 1889 August 1 – Alexander Davie, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office. August 2 – John Robson becomes premier of British Columbia. August 12 – The Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act, 1889 of the British Parliament expands Ontario's boundaries west to the Lake of the Woods and north to the Albany River.http://www.mndmf.gov.on.ca/about/historical_perspective_e.asp A Historical Perspective on the North Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry 2011-08-15 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110822084737/http://www.mndmf.gov.on.ca/about/historical_perspective_e.asp 2011-08-22 September 19 – A rockslide in Quebec City kills 45 November – Neil McLeod becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Sir William Wilfred Sullivan. November 6 – Newfoundland election: William Whiteway's Liberals win a majority, defeating Robert Thorburn's Reforms Full date unknown The Dominion Women Enfranchisement Association is created to campaign for women's right to vote Births February 27 – Samuel Bronfman, businessman (d.1971) May 16 – Morris Gray, politician (d.1966) August 13 – Camillien Houde, politician and four-time mayor of Montreal (d.1958) October 13 – Douglass Dumbrille, actor (d.1974) November 20 – John B. McNair, lawyer, politician, judge and 22nd Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (d.1968) December 4 – Leslie Gordon Bell, politician and lawyer (d.1963) Deaths April 9 – Andrew Charles Elliott, jurist, politician and 4th Premier of British Columbia (b. c1828) May 4 – A. B. Rogers, surveyor (b.1829) June 5 – John Hamilton Gray, Premier of New Brunswick (b.1814) July 5 – John Norquay, politician and 5th Premier of Manitoba (b.1841) August 1 – Alexander Edmund Batson Davie, politician and 7th Premier of British Columbia (b.1847) September 5 – Louis-Victor Sicotte, lawyer, judge and politician (b.1812) September 13 – Henry Joseph Clarke, lawyer, politician and 3rd Premier of Manitoba (b.1833) October 28 – Alexander Morris, politician, Minister and 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (b.1826) Full date unknown Edwin Randolph Oakes, politician (b.1818) References 1889 in Category:Years of the 19th century in Canada Canada Category:1889 in North America