# 1901 in Canada

Events from the year 1901 in Canada.

## Incumbents
### Crown

* Monarch – Victoria (until January 22) then Edward VII

### 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.

## 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".

## 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)
* 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)
* 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

* 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)
* July 24 — George William Allan, politician and 11th Mayor of Toronto (b.1822)
* October 25 — Colin MacDougall, politician and lawyer (b.1834)

## Historical Documents

N.W.T. premier says territories are ready for and financially need provincial powers
Influential Liberal MP Frank Oliver objects to immigration of Slavs
Matron and helper at Indian residential school so overworked that spiritual training and teaching children "how to work" is ignored
Manufacturing process described in huge chair factory in Owen Sound, Ontario
Mining and miners in Nanaimo, BC's booming coal industry
Trail, B.C. and its gold, silver and copper smelting operations described
Architect gives examples of good design to counter people's ill-informed criticism
Visitor laments various classes of loafer in British Columbia (Note: racial stereotypes)
Humorous character study of people in dining and smoking cars on train crossing Prairies
Chicken Okra à la Portugaise and other items on Chateau Frontenac menu