# 1900 in Canada

Events from the year 1900 in Canada.

## Incumbents
### Crown

* Monarch – Victoria

### Federal government

* Governor General – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto
* Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
* Chief Justice – Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario)
* Parliament – 8th (until 9 October)

### Provincial governments
#### Lieutenant governors

* Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Thomas Robert McInnes (until June 21) then Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
* Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Colebrooke Patterson (until October 10) then Daniel Hunter McMillan
* Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
* Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly (until July 26) then 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 – Charles Augustus Semlin (until February 28) then Joseph Martin (February 28 to June 15) then Edward Gawler Prior
* Premier of Manitoba – Thomas Greenway (until January 10) then Hugh John Macdonald (January 10 to October 29) then Rodmond Roblin
* Premier of New Brunswick – Henry Emmerson (until August 31) then Lemuel John Tweedie
* Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
* Premier of Ontario – George William Ross
* Premier of Prince Edward Island – Donald Farquharson
* Premier of Quebec – Félix-Gabriel Marchand (until October 8) then Simon-Napoléon Parent

### Territorial governments
#### Commissioners

* Commissioner of Yukon – William Ogilvie

#### Lieutenant governors

* Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Colebrooke Patterson (until October 10) then Daniel Hunter McMillan
* Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Amédée E. Forget

#### Premiers

* Premier of North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain

## Events
### January to June

* January 8 – Hugh John Macdonald becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Thomas Greenway.
* February 18 – February 27 – Boer War: The Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry plays a decisive role in the Battle of Paardeberg.
* February 27 – Charles Semlin is dismissed as premier of British Columbia.
* February 28 – Joseph Martin becomes premier of British Columbia.
* March 16 – Boer War: Strathcona's Horse leave for South Africa.
* April 26 – Two-thirds of Hull, Quebec, is destroyed in a fire.
* June 15 – James Dunsmuir becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Joseph Martin.

### July to December

* August 31 – Lemuel John Tweedie becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Henry Emmerson.
* September 25 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand, Premier of Quebec, dies in office.
* October 8 – Simon-Napoléon Parent becomes premier of Quebec.
* October 29 – Sir Rodmond Roblin becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Hugh John Macdonald.
* November 7
** Federal election: Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Liberals win a second consecutive majority.
** Boer War: The Battle of Leliefontein begins. Three Canadians receive the Victoria Cross for their valour in the engagement.
* December 6 – Alphonse Desjardins founds Mouvement Desjardins, the first credit union in North America.

### Full date unknown

* -The federal government doubles the head tax on Chinese immigrants
* -The Canadian Tuberculosis Association meets for the first time

## Births
### January to June

* January 1 – Sam Berger, lawyer, businessman and football player (d.1992)
* January 8
** Harry Cassidy, academic, social reformer and civil servant (d.1951)
** Solon Earl Low, politician (d.1962)
* February 20 – Graham Spry, broadcasting pioneer, business executive, diplomat and socialist (d.1983)
* March 12 – David Croll, politician (d.1991)
* April 3 – Albert Walsh, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1958)
* April 19 – Roland Michener, lawyer, politician, diplomat and Governor-General of Canada (d.1991)
* April 30 – David Manners, actor (d.1998)
* May 25 – Alain Grandbois, poet (d.1975)
* May 25 – Malcolm Norris, Métis leader (d.1967)
* May 29 – Antonio Talbot, politician (d.1980)
* June 3 – Gordon Sinclair, journalist, writer and commentator (d.1984)
* June 21 – Edward S. Rogers, Sr., inventor and radio pioneer (d.1939)

### July to December

* July 6 – Paul Métivier, World War I veteran (d. 2004)
* July 23 – John Babcock, Canada's last surviving World War I veteran (d.2010)
* August 13 – Gordon Sparling, filmmaker (d.1994)
* August 23 – Frances Adaskin, pianist (d. 2001)
* August 31 – James Campbell Clouston, naval officer (d.1940 in Dunkirk evacuation)
* September 6 – W. A. C. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia (d.1979)
* October 2 – Rod Keller, general (d. 1954)
* November 20 – Athole Shearer, actress (d.1985)
* November 27 – Jovette Bernier, journalist, author and radio show host (d.1981)
* November 28 – Mary Bothwell, classical vocalist and painter (d. mid-1970s)

## Deaths

* February 25 – Benjamin Pâquet, Roman Catholic priest and educationist (b.1832)
* March 1 – Frederick Carter, Premier of Newfoundland (b.1819)
* March 20 – George Hope Bertram, politician (b. 1847)
* August 4 – Marc-Aurèle Plamondon, lawyer, journalist, publisher, and judge (b.1823)
* August 11 – Georges-Isidore Barthe, lawyer, publisher, journalist and politician (b.1834)
* September 25 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand, journalist, author, notary, politician and 11th Premier of Quebec (b.1832)
* December 21 – Désiré Olivier Bourbeau, politician and merchant (b.1834)

## Historical documents

Political cartoonist shows Canadian farmer's preference for Liberal over Conservative record
After spreading fire destroys Ottawa power plant, House forced to adjourn as governments seek help from military and nearby cities
Fire that destroyed much of Hull (Gatineau), Quebec, and part of Ottawa described
Hartley Bay girl describes her time in Kitimat, B.C. boarding school
Newspaper publishers' problems with costs and paper supply
Cape Town thanks Imperial volunteer forces for their South African War service
Saint John, New Brunswick program includes two women's military drill teams
Whitefish, spuds and Klondikers: the news from Lesser Slave Lake, N.W.T.