# 1892 in Canada

Events from the year 1892 in Canada.

## Incumbents
### Crown

* Monarch – Victoria

### Federal government

* Governor General – Frederick Stanley
* Prime Minister – John Abbott (until November 24) then John Thompson (from December 5)
* Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick) (until 25 September) then Samuel Henry Strong (Ontario) (from 13 December)
* Parliament – 7th

### Provincial governments
#### Lieutenant governors

* Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Hugh Nelson (until November 1) then Edgar Dewdney
* Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – John Christian Schultz
* Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley
* Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Malachy Bowes Daly
* Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Alexander Campbell (until May 24) then George Airey Kirkpatrick (from May 30)
* Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Jedediah Slason Carvell
* Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Auguste-Réal Angers (until December 5) then Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau

#### Premiers

* Premier of British Columbia – John Robson (until June 29) then Theodore Davie (from July 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 – Frederick Peters
* Premier of Quebec – Charles Boucher de Boucherville (until December 16)then Louis-Olivier Taillon

### Territorial governments
#### Lieutenant governors

* Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – John Christian Schultz
* Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Joseph Royal

#### Premiers

* Chairman of the Executive Committee of the North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain

## Events

* June 29 – John Robson, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office
* July 2 – Theodore Davie becomes Premier of British Columbia
* July 8 – The Great Fire of 1892 destroys two-thirds of St. John's, Newfoundland
* July 9 – Parliament passes the Criminal Code, 1892, the first unified criminal law for all of Canada, under the direction of the Minister of Justice, John Thompson
* November 24 – Sir John Abbott resigns as Prime Minister
* December 5 – Sir John Thompson becomes Prime Minister
* December 16 – Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon becomes premier of Quebec for the second time, replacing Sir Charles-Eugène de Boucherville

### Full date unknown

* The Toronto Star founded
* Harbord Collegiate Institute was opened
* Humberside Collegiate Institute opened
* Worthington, Ontario, is incorporated as a mining community.
* The first Canadian National Rugby-Football Championship game is played (Osgoode Hall defeats Montreal 45–5).

## Sport

* First documented women's ice hockey game takes place in Barrie, Ontario playing on an outdoor ice surface.

## Births
### January to June

* March 4 – J.-Eugène Bissonnette, politician and physician
* April 8 – Mary Pickford, actress and studio co-founder (d.1979)
* May 3 – Jacob Viner, economist (d.1970)
* May 18 – John Croak, VC
* June 2 – Edward LeRoy Bowerman, politician (d.1977)

### July to December

* July 8 – Sir Victor Tait, Canadian-born British airman and businessman (d.1988)
* July 14 – John Sissons, barrister, author, judge and politician (d.1969)
* August 2 – Jack L. Warner, studio mogul (d.1978)
* August 18 – Hal Foster, cartoonist (d.1982)
* September 21 – Donald Elmer Black, politician
* September 24 – Adélard Godbout, politician and 15th Premier of Quebec (d.1956)
* October 25 – Nell Shipman, actress, screenwriter, producer and animal trainer (d.1970)
* December 27 – Alfred Edwin McKay, World War I flying ace (d. 1917 in Belgium)

## Deaths

* January 1 – John Chipman Wade, politician and lawyer (b.1817)
* January 20 – Samuel Barton Burdett, politician, lawyer and lecturer (b.1843)
* March 7 – Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1820)
* April 6 – John Ostell, architect, surveyor and manufacturer (b.1813)
* April 17 – Alexander Mackenzie, building contractor, newspaper editor, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b.1822)
* May 24 – Alexander Campbell, politician, Senator and 6th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1822)
* June 9 – William Grant Stairs, explorer, soldier and adventurer (b.1863)
* June 29 – John Robson, journalist, politician and Premier of British Columbia (b.1824)
* July 15 – William Donahue, merchant and politician (b.1834)
* August 30 – Frederick Newton Gisborne, Laid first under-sea cable in North America
* September 12 – Marc-Amable Girard, politician, Senator and 2nd Premier of Manitoba (b.1822)
* December 14 – Adams George Archibald, politician (b.1814)

## Historical documents

* Newspaper coverage of Great Fire of St. John's, Newfoundland
* U.S. accuses Canadian Pacific Railway of helping Chinese illegally cross border from British Columbia
* Running Wolf and Owl Child's performance of Moon Dance described
* "Completely won the hearts of her audience" - Poet of Kanien'kéhà:ka origin, Pauline Johnson, gives first solo recital in Toronto
* English visitor rides out from Lethbridge, Alberta to watch 2000-head cattle roundup