# 1906 in Canada

Events from the year 1906 in Canada.

## Incumbents
### Crown

* Monarch – Edward VII

### Federal government

* Governor General – Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey
* Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
* Chief Justice – Henri Elzéar Taschereau (Quebec) (until 2 May) then Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec) (from 2 June)
* Parliament – 10th

### Provincial governments
#### Lieutenant governors

* Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – George Hedley Vicars Bulyea
* Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Henri Joly de Lotbinière (until May 11) then James Dunsmuir
* Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
* Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
* Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alfred Gilpin Jones (until March 15) then Duncan Cameron Fraser
* Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Mortimer Clark
* Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Donald Alexander MacKinnon
* Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté
* Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Amédée Forget

#### Premiers

* Premier of Alberta – Alexander Cameron Rutherford
* Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride
* Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
* Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie
* Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
* Premier of Ontario – James Whitney
* Premier of Prince Edward Island – Arthur Peters
* Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
* Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott

### Territorial governments
#### Commissioners

* Commissioner of Yukon – William Wallace Burns McInnes (until December 31) then John T. Lithgow (acting)
* Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White

## Events

* January 1 – Canada's first movie theatre Ouimetoscope opens in Montreal
* January 22 – The SS Valencia strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster.
* March 27 – The Alpine Club of Canada is founded in Winnipeg by Elizabeth Parker and Arthur Oliver Wheeler.
* April 30 – The Ottawa Public Library opens
* May 7 – Ontario Hydro created
* May 23 – Regina decreed capital of Saskatchewan
* June 24 – Octave Crémazie Monument unveiled
* August 26 – Edward VII grants the Coat of Arms of Saskatchewan
* The Revillon Frères trading post opens at Fort Saint John, British Columbia, as competition against the Hudson's Bay Company
* August 28 – Treaty 10 is signed.

## Sport

* February 23 – Tommy Burns becomes the First Canadian to be Boxing's Heavyweight champion by defeating Marvin Hart

## Births

* January 15 – Edna Staebler, author (d. 2006)
* January 27 – Walter L. Gordon, accountant, businessman, politician and writer (d.1987)
* January 29 – Joe Primeau, ice hockey player (d.1989)
* February 14 – Roland Beaudry, politician, journalist, publicist and publisher (d.1964)
* March 10 – Lionel Bertrand, politician, journalist and newspaper editor (d.1979)
* May 15 – Robert Methven Petrie, astronomer (d.1966)
* May 16 – Alfred Pellan, painter (d.1988)
* June 22 – Stanley Fox, politician (d.1984)
* June 26 – Marian Scott, painter
* July 18 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-born American academic and politician (d. 1992)
* September 24 – Leonard Marsh, social scientist and professor (d.1983)
* November 20 – John Josiah Robinette, lawyer (d.1996)
* December 16 – Barbara Kent, Canadian actress

## Deaths

* February 2 – Thomas Arkell, politician, farmer and grain merchant (b.1823)
* March 31 – James McIntyre, poet (b.1828)
* April 12 – Robert Thorburn, merchant, politician and Premier of Newfoundland (b.1836)
* May 3 – Peter White, politician (b.1838)
* May 19 – Gabriel Dumont, Metis leader (b.1837)
* June 9 – William Carpenter Bompas, Church of England clergyman, bishop and missionary (b.1834)
* June 11 – Hector-Louis Langevin, lawyer, politician and a Father of Confederation (b.1826)
* October 7 – Honoré Beaugrand, journalist, politician, author and folklorist (b.1848)

## Historical documents

* Reconciling Dominion Lands Act rules on homesteading and traditional Doukhobor communal practice is complicated by poverty, religious freedom and squatting.
* Rugby School lecture gives somewhat fantastic and imperial picture of life in Canada for immigrant Englishman
* Hardships and success of Barr Colony settlers at Lloydminster, Saskatchewan
* British printers complain of being tricked into breaking Winnipeg strike
* Save Manitoba elk and moose from "the white man's lust for killing"